arXiv:2602.19912cs.LG2026-02被引 1

用流匹配模型从质谱图自动推断分子结构,准确率提升14倍。

De novo molecular structure elucidation from mass spectra via flow matching

  • 分两阶段:先用变换器编码质谱为化学信息嵌入,再用流匹配解码重建分子
  • 能将45%的质谱正确转为分子结构,比现有方法快14倍
  • 适合代谢物发现、化学生物学研究者使用

质谱法因其灵敏度和复杂样本分析能力,是分子结构鉴定的强大工具。然而,从质谱图还原完整分子结构是一个困难且定义不明确的逆问题。解决此问题对揭示生物机制、发现新代谢物及推动多领域化学研究至关重要。为此,我们提出MSFlow,一种两阶段编码-解码的流匹配生成模型,在小分子结构解析任务中达到当前最优性能。第一阶段采用公式受限的变换器模型,将质谱编码为连续且富含化学信息的嵌入空间;第二阶段训练解码器流匹配模型,从质谱的潜在嵌入重构分子。消融实验表明,保留信息的分子描述符对编码至关重要,并支持使用离散流基解码器。严格评估显示,MSFlow可将高达45%的分子质谱准确转换为对应分子表示,较当前最先进方法提升最多14倍。已训练版本在GitHub公开,供非商业用户使用。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Mass spectrometry is a powerful and widely used tool for identifying molecular structures due to its sensitivity and ability to profile complex samples. However, translating spectra into full molecular structures is a difficult, under-defined inverse problem. Overcoming this problem is crucial for enabling biological insight, discovering new metabolites, and advancing chemical research across multiple fields. To this end, we develop MSFlow, a two-stage encoder-decoder flow-matching generative model that achieves state-of-the-art performance on the structure elucidation task for small molecules. In the first stage, we adopt a formula-restricted transformer model for encoding mass spectra into a continuous and chemically informative embedding space, while in the second stage, we train a decoder flow matching model to reconstruct molecules from latent embeddings of mass spectra. We present ablation studies demonstrating the importance of using information-preserving molecular descriptors for encoding mass spectra and motivate the use of our discrete flow-based decoder. Our rigorous evaluation demonstrates that MSFlow can accurately translate up to 45 percent of molecular mass spectra into their corresponding molecular representations - an improvement of up to fourteen-fold over the current state-of-the-art. A trained version of MSFlow is made publicly available on GitHub for non-commercial users.

质谱解析生成模型分子结构流匹配

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