ChemMLLM: Chemical Multimodal Large Language Model

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Main Authors: Tan, Qian, Zhou, Dongzhan, Xia, Peng, Liu, Wanhao, Ouyang, Wanli, Bai, Lei, Li, Yuqiang, Fu, Tianfan
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author Tan, Qian
Zhou, Dongzhan
Xia, Peng
Liu, Wanhao
Ouyang, Wanli
Bai, Lei
Li, Yuqiang
Fu, Tianfan
author_facet Tan, Qian
Zhou, Dongzhan
Xia, Peng
Liu, Wanhao
Ouyang, Wanli
Bai, Lei
Li, Yuqiang
Fu, Tianfan
contents Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made impressive progress in many applications in recent years. However, chemical MLLMs that can handle cross-modal understanding and generation remain underexplored. To fill this gap, we propose ChemMLLM, a unified chemical multimodal large language model for molecule understanding and generation. Also, we design five multimodal tasks across text, molecular SMILES strings, and image, and curate the datasets. We benchmark ChemMLLM against a range of general leading MLLMs and Chemical LLMs on these tasks. Experimental results show that ChemMLLM achieves superior performance across all evaluated tasks. For example, in molecule image optimization task, ChemMLLM outperforms the best baseline (GPT-4o) by 116.75\% (4.27 vs 1.97 property improvement). The code is publicly available at https://github.com/bbsbz/ChemMLLM.git.
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spellingShingle ChemMLLM: Chemical Multimodal Large Language Model
Tan, Qian
Zhou, Dongzhan
Xia, Peng
Liu, Wanhao
Ouyang, Wanli
Bai, Lei
Li, Yuqiang
Fu, Tianfan
Machine Learning
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made impressive progress in many applications in recent years. However, chemical MLLMs that can handle cross-modal understanding and generation remain underexplored. To fill this gap, we propose ChemMLLM, a unified chemical multimodal large language model for molecule understanding and generation. Also, we design five multimodal tasks across text, molecular SMILES strings, and image, and curate the datasets. We benchmark ChemMLLM against a range of general leading MLLMs and Chemical LLMs on these tasks. Experimental results show that ChemMLLM achieves superior performance across all evaluated tasks. For example, in molecule image optimization task, ChemMLLM outperforms the best baseline (GPT-4o) by 116.75\% (4.27 vs 1.97 property improvement). The code is publicly available at https://github.com/bbsbz/ChemMLLM.git.
title ChemMLLM: Chemical Multimodal Large Language Model
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.16326