构建分子生成安全评估基准,识别模型生成有毒或危险分子的风险。
MolSafeEval: A Benchmark for Uncovering Safety Risks in AI-Generated Molecules

- 构建分子安全知识图谱,融合毒理数据库与安全规则进行系统分析。
- 覆盖四类生成任务,提供标准化数据集与安全评估流程。
- 适用于药物研发与生成模型安全审查,推动更可信的分子设计。
当前分子生成评测侧重任务复杂度、分子新颖性和性质匹配,却忽视了生成分子潜在的安全风险。许多生成模型可能产出具有毒性、反应性或其他危害特性的分子,带来隐性风险且未被充分关注。为此,我们提出 MolSafeEval,一个专注于评估和分析分子生成安全风险的基准。不同于依赖单一毒性预测器的方法,MolSafeEval 将异构安全知识(包括毒理数据库与危险规则)整合为结构化的分子安全知识图谱,作为大语言模型推理的基础,实现对生成化合物中不安全特征的系统性检测与解释。我们进一步将分子生成模型分为四类典型任务:无条件生成、性质优化、基于靶蛋白的设计以及文本引导生成,并为每类提供标准化数据集与安全评估协议。通过系统揭示现有生成方法的安全漏洞,MolSafeEval 为分子模型的评测提供了新视角,并为更安全、更可信的分子设计提供关键指导。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Current molecular generation benchmarks emphasize task complexity, molecule novelty, and property alignment; they largely overlook a critical concern: the potential safety risks of AI-generated molecules. In practice, many generative models may produce molecules with toxic, reactive, or otherwise hazardous characteristics - posing hidden dangers that remain insufficiently addressed. To address this gap, we introduce MolSafeEval, a benchmark dedicated to evaluating and analyzing the safety risks of molecular generation. Unlike prior approaches that rely on narrow toxicity predictors, MolSafeEval integrates heterogeneous safety knowledge - ranging from toxicological databases to hazard rules - into a structured molecular safety knowledge graph. This graph serves as a foundation for large language model-based reasoning, enabling systematic detection and explanation of unsafe features in generated compounds. We further categorize molecular generative models into four representative task types - unconditional generation, property optimization, target protein-based design, and text-based generation - and provide standardized datasets and safety evaluation protocols for each. By systematically revealing the safety vulnerabilities of current generative approaches, MolSafeEval offers a new lens for benchmarking molecular models and provides essential guidance toward safer, more trustworthy molecular design.
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