arXiv:2608.14076physics.chem-phcs.AI2026-08

用原子级反应变化信息生成更通用的化学过渡态结构。

Reaction-Transformation-Aware Flow Matching for Generalizable Transition State Generation

论文配图:Reaction-Transformation-Aware Flow Matching for Generalizable Transition State Generation
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  • 显式建模原子层面的结构变化,结合对齐几何表示。
  • 在未知反应类型上仍能高效生成可收敛到真实鞍点的初猜结构。
  • 适合需要快速生成可靠过渡态的化学反应模拟研究者。

过渡态(TS)结构决定了基元化学反应的能量壁垒和机理路径,但其识别仍计算成本高昂,因传统鞍点搜索需昂贵的量子力学计算。近期机器学习方法通过从反应物-产物信息预测结构加速了TS生成,但主要学习端点与TS间的几何对应关系,隐含了基元反应的结构变化过程。为此,我们提出TransTS,一种基于原子映射反应物-产物对的通用过渡态生成框架。TransTS显式学习原子级结构变化,并整合统一的原子对齐几何表示,实现反应感知的等变过渡态生成。该框架旨在为后续量子化学优化提供可靠初猜,评估标准不仅包括几何相似性,还包括能否收敛至已验证鞍点并恢复预期反应路径。在同分布(IID)与零样本外分布(OOD)基准测试中,TransTS展现出更优的初始结构质量,尤其在未见反应分布上表现出强泛化能力。在挑战性的GDB-10-rxn和GDB-17-rxn OOD基准上,相同训练条件下,其生成的候选结构更频繁地成功收敛至验证鞍点并恢复目标反应,且提升反应覆盖范围与模型容量进一步改善几何保真度与优化结果。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Transition-state (TS) structures define the energetic barriers and mechanistic pathways of elementary chemical reactions, yet their identification remains computationally demanding because conventional saddle-point searches require expensive quantum-mechanical calculations. Recent machine-learning approaches have accelerated TS generation by predicting structures from reaction endpoint information, but they primarily learn geometric correspondence between endpoints and TSs, leaving the structural transformations underlying elementary reactions implicitly represented. To address this limitation, we introduce TransTS, a reaction-transformation-aware framework for generalizable TS generation from atom-mapped reactant-product pairs. TransTS explicitly learns atom-level structural transformations between reaction endpoints and integrates them with a unified atom-aligned geometric representation of reactants, TSs and products, enabling reaction-aware equivariant generation of TS geometries. TransTS is designed to provide reliable TS initial guesses for subsequent quantum-chemical refinement, where generated structures are evaluated not only by geometric similarity but also by their ability to converge to validated saddle points and recover the intended reaction pathways. Across IID and zero-shot OOD benchmarks, TransTS demonstrates improved TS initialization quality, with particularly strong generalization to unseen reaction distributions. On the challenging GDB-10-rxn and GDB-17-rxn OOD benchmarks, TransTS generates TS candidates that more frequently converge to validated saddle points and recover the intended elementary reactions after refinement than existing approaches under the same training regime. Scaling reaction coverage and model capacity further improves both geometric fidelity and refinement outcomes.

过渡态生成反应机理机器学习分子建模

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