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Machine Learning: Representation LearningKnowledge Representation and Reasoning: Description LogicsCognitive Modeling & Cognitive Systems: Symbolic Representations
Electron-Informed Coarse-Graining Molecular Representation Learning for Real-World Molecular Physics
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This work addresses the limitations of existing molecular representation methods, which predominantly rely on atomic-level information and struggle to accurately capture true physical properties. While electronic-level descriptors offer a more fundamental characterization, their high computational cost renders them impractical for large molecules. To bridge this gap, the authors propose HEDMoL, a novel model that—through knowledge transfer—efficiently injects readily available electronic-level information from small molecules into coarse-grained representations of large molecules. This approach yields electron-aware molecular embeddings without incurring additional computational overhead. Evaluated on multiple benchmark datasets containing experimentally measured physical properties, HEDMoL achieves state-of-the-art prediction accuracy, significantly outperforming current atomic-level representation methods and demonstrating both its effectiveness and strong generalization capability.
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📝 Abstract
Various representation learning methods for molecular structures have been devised to accelerate data-driven chemistry. However, the representation capabilities of existing methods are essentially limited to atom-level information, which is not sufficient to describe real-world molecular physics. Although electron-level information can provide fundamental knowledge about chemical compounds beyond the atom-level information, obtaining the electron-level information in real-world molecules is computationally impractical and sometimes infeasible. We propose a method for learning electron-informed molecular representations without additional computation costs by transferring readily accessible electron-level information about small molecules to large molecules of our interest. The proposed method achieved state-of-the-art prediction accuracy on extensive benchmark datasets containing experimentally observed molecular physics. The source code for HEDMoL is available at https://github.com/ngs00/HEDMoL.
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molecular representation learning
electron-level information
molecular physics
coarse-graining
atom-level information
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electron-informed representation
coarse-graining
molecular representation learning
transfer learning
molecular physics prediction
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