RxnCaption: Reformulating Reaction Diagram Parsing as Visual Prompt Guided Captioning

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Autori principali: Song, Jiahe, Wang, Chuang, Jiang, Bowen, Wang, Yinfan, Zheng, Hao, Wei, Xingjian, Liu, Chengjin, Nie, Rui, Gao, Junyuan, Sun, Jiaxing, Wang, Yubin, Wu, Lijun, Huang, Zhenhua, Wu, Jiang, Yu, Qian, He, Conghui
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author Song, Jiahe
Wang, Chuang
Jiang, Bowen
Wang, Yinfan
Zheng, Hao
Wei, Xingjian
Liu, Chengjin
Nie, Rui
Gao, Junyuan
Sun, Jiaxing
Wang, Yubin
Wu, Lijun
Huang, Zhenhua
Wu, Jiang
Yu, Qian
He, Conghui
author_facet Song, Jiahe
Wang, Chuang
Jiang, Bowen
Wang, Yinfan
Zheng, Hao
Wei, Xingjian
Liu, Chengjin
Nie, Rui
Gao, Junyuan
Sun, Jiaxing
Wang, Yubin
Wu, Lijun
Huang, Zhenhua
Wu, Jiang
Yu, Qian
He, Conghui
contents Large-scale chemical reaction datasets are crucial for AI research in chemistry. However, existing chemical reaction data often exist as images within papers, making them not machine-readable and unusable for training machine learning models. In response to this challenge, we propose the RxnCaption framework for the task of chemical Reaction Diagram Parsing (RxnDP). Our framework reformulates the traditional coordinate prediction driven parsing process into an image captioning problem, which Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) handle naturally. We introduce a strategy termed BBox and Index as Visual Prompt (BIVP), which uses our state-of-the-art molecular detector, MolYOLO, to pre-draw molecular bounding boxes and indices directly onto the input image. This turns the downstream parsing into a natural-language description problem. Extensive experiments show that the BIVP strategy significantly improves structural extraction quality while simplifying model design. We further construct the RxnCaption-15k dataset, an order of magnitude larger than prior real-world literature benchmarks, with a balanced test subset across four layout archetypes. Experiments demonstrate that RxnCaption-VL achieves state-of-the-art performance on multiple metrics. We believe our method, dataset, and models will advance structured information extraction from chemical literature and catalyze broader AI applications in chemistry. We will release data, models, and code on GitHub.
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spellingShingle RxnCaption: Reformulating Reaction Diagram Parsing as Visual Prompt Guided Captioning
Song, Jiahe
Wang, Chuang
Jiang, Bowen
Wang, Yinfan
Zheng, Hao
Wei, Xingjian
Liu, Chengjin
Nie, Rui
Gao, Junyuan
Sun, Jiaxing
Wang, Yubin
Wu, Lijun
Huang, Zhenhua
Wu, Jiang
Yu, Qian
He, Conghui
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Large-scale chemical reaction datasets are crucial for AI research in chemistry. However, existing chemical reaction data often exist as images within papers, making them not machine-readable and unusable for training machine learning models. In response to this challenge, we propose the RxnCaption framework for the task of chemical Reaction Diagram Parsing (RxnDP). Our framework reformulates the traditional coordinate prediction driven parsing process into an image captioning problem, which Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) handle naturally. We introduce a strategy termed BBox and Index as Visual Prompt (BIVP), which uses our state-of-the-art molecular detector, MolYOLO, to pre-draw molecular bounding boxes and indices directly onto the input image. This turns the downstream parsing into a natural-language description problem. Extensive experiments show that the BIVP strategy significantly improves structural extraction quality while simplifying model design. We further construct the RxnCaption-15k dataset, an order of magnitude larger than prior real-world literature benchmarks, with a balanced test subset across four layout archetypes. Experiments demonstrate that RxnCaption-VL achieves state-of-the-art performance on multiple metrics. We believe our method, dataset, and models will advance structured information extraction from chemical literature and catalyze broader AI applications in chemistry. We will release data, models, and code on GitHub.
title RxnCaption: Reformulating Reaction Diagram Parsing as Visual Prompt Guided Captioning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02384