Breaking the Modality Barrier: Generative Modeling for Accurate Molecule Retrieval from Mass Spectra

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Autori principali: Zhang, Yiwen, Ding, Keyan, Wu, Yihang, Zhuang, Xiang, Yang, Yi, Zhang, Qiang, Chen, Huajun
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author Zhang, Yiwen
Ding, Keyan
Wu, Yihang
Zhuang, Xiang
Yang, Yi
Zhang, Qiang
Chen, Huajun
author_facet Zhang, Yiwen
Ding, Keyan
Wu, Yihang
Zhuang, Xiang
Yang, Yi
Zhang, Qiang
Chen, Huajun
contents Retrieving molecular structures from tandem mass spectra is a crucial step in rapid compound identification. Existing retrieval methods, such as traditional mass spectral library matching, suffer from limited spectral library coverage, while recent cross-modal representation learning frameworks often encounter modality misalignment, resulting in suboptimal retrieval accuracy and generalization. To address these limitations, we propose GLMR, a Generative Language Model-based Retrieval framework that mitigates the cross-modal misalignment through a two-stage process. In the pre-retrieval stage, a contrastive learning-based model identifies top candidate molecules as contextual priors for the input mass spectrum. In the generative retrieval stage, these candidate molecules are integrated with the input mass spectrum to guide a generative model in producing refined molecular structures, which are then used to re-rank the candidates based on molecular similarity. Experiments on both MassSpecGym and the proposed MassRET-20k dataset demonstrate that GLMR significantly outperforms existing methods, achieving over 40% improvement in top-1 accuracy and exhibiting strong generalizability.
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spellingShingle Breaking the Modality Barrier: Generative Modeling for Accurate Molecule Retrieval from Mass Spectra
Zhang, Yiwen
Ding, Keyan
Wu, Yihang
Zhuang, Xiang
Yang, Yi
Zhang, Qiang
Chen, Huajun
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Retrieving molecular structures from tandem mass spectra is a crucial step in rapid compound identification. Existing retrieval methods, such as traditional mass spectral library matching, suffer from limited spectral library coverage, while recent cross-modal representation learning frameworks often encounter modality misalignment, resulting in suboptimal retrieval accuracy and generalization. To address these limitations, we propose GLMR, a Generative Language Model-based Retrieval framework that mitigates the cross-modal misalignment through a two-stage process. In the pre-retrieval stage, a contrastive learning-based model identifies top candidate molecules as contextual priors for the input mass spectrum. In the generative retrieval stage, these candidate molecules are integrated with the input mass spectrum to guide a generative model in producing refined molecular structures, which are then used to re-rank the candidates based on molecular similarity. Experiments on both MassSpecGym and the proposed MassRET-20k dataset demonstrate that GLMR significantly outperforms existing methods, achieving over 40% improvement in top-1 accuracy and exhibiting strong generalizability.
title Breaking the Modality Barrier: Generative Modeling for Accurate Molecule Retrieval from Mass Spectra
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.06259