用化学约束优化分子结构推断,提升预测准确性。
Towards Reasonable Molecular Structure Elucidation from Infrared Spectroscopy with Chemical Feedback

- 引入分子式与红外谱图一致性作为反馈信号,指导模型生成合理结构
- 在三个数据集上显著提升顶级预测的准确率,避免结构不合理问题
- 通用框架可适配多种模型,适合需要高可靠性的分子结构推断场景
红外光谱提供分子结构的特征信号,传统上依赖专家通过官能团识别或谱图库匹配进行解析,过程耗时且易产生歧义。近年来机器学习方法利用分子式和红外光谱推进了分子结构推断,但常生成不合理候选结构,包括排名最高的预测结果。具体表现为候选结构所隐含的分子式与输入不一致,且理论红外光谱与观测光谱不符。为此,我们提出公式与红外匹配偏好优化(FIRMPO),一种通用、可即插即用的化学反馈驱动偏好优化框架。FIRMPO基于精确分子式匹配和红外光谱一致性,将化学反馈作为偏好信号,引导模型生成合理结构。不同于通用偏好优化方法,FIRMPO专为分子结构推断设计,同时保持模型无关性,可轻松集成于各类结构预测模型。这促使模型优先选择满足化学反馈的结构,显著提升顶级预测的准确性。在三个常用红外数据集上的大量实验表明,FIRMPO在分子结构推断精度上显著优于现有基线方法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Infrared (IR) spectra provide characteristic signals of molecular structure, which are often interpreted by experts via functional-group identification or library matching, making the process time-consuming and ambiguous. Recent machine learning methods have made progress in molecular structure elucidation using molecular formulas and IR spectra. However, these models often infer unreasonable candidate molecular structures, including top-ranked predictions. More specifically, the molecular formula implied by a candidate structure often fails to match the input molecular formula, and the candidate's theoretical IR spectrum is often inconsistent with the observed IR spectrum. To address these issues, we propose Formula- and IR-Matched Preference Optimization (FIRMPO), a general and plug-and-play chemical feedback-driven preference optimization framework for molecular structure elucidation. FIRMPO incorporates chemical feedback as preference signals based on exact molecular formula matching and IR spectral consistency to guide reasonable structure predictions. Unlike generic preference optimization methods, FIRMPO is tailored to molecular structure elucidation while remaining model-agnostic, enabling it to be readily integrated with different structure prediction models in this class. This encourages models to prioritize structures that satisfy the chemical feedback, leading to a substantial improvement in the accuracy of top-ranked predictions. Extensive experiments on three widely used IR datasets show that FIRMPO significantly improves molecular structure elucidation accuracy over existing baselines.
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