Socrates-Mol: Self-Oriented Cognitive Reasoning through Autonomous Trial-and-Error with Empirical-Bayesian Screening for Molecules
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| author | Wang, Xiangru Jiang, Zekun Yang, Heng Tan, Cheng Lan, Xingying Xu, Chunming Zhou, Tianhang |
| author_facet | Wang, Xiangru Jiang, Zekun Yang, Heng Tan, Cheng Lan, Xingying Xu, Chunming Zhou, Tianhang |
| contents | Molecular property prediction is fundamental to chemical engineering applications such as solvent screening. We present Socrates-Mol, a framework that transforms language models into empirical Bayesian reasoners through context engineering, addressing cold start problems without model fine-tuning. The system implements a reflective-prediction cycle where initial outputs serve as priors, retrieved molecular cases provide evidence, and refined predictions form posteriors, extracting reusable chemical rules from sparse data. We introduce ranking tasks aligned with industrial screening priorities and employ cross-model self-consistency across five language models to reduce variance. Experiments on amine solvent LogP prediction reveal task-dependent patterns: regression achieves 72% MAE reduction and 112% R-squared improvement through self-consistency, while ranking tasks show limited gains due to systematic multi-model biases. The framework reduces deployment costs by over 70% compared to full fine-tuning, providing a scalable solution for molecular property prediction while elucidating the task-adaptive nature of self-consistency mechanisms. |
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| spellingShingle | Socrates-Mol: Self-Oriented Cognitive Reasoning through Autonomous Trial-and-Error with Empirical-Bayesian Screening for Molecules Wang, Xiangru Jiang, Zekun Yang, Heng Tan, Cheng Lan, Xingying Xu, Chunming Zhou, Tianhang Chemical Physics Machine Learning Quantitative Methods Methodology Molecular property prediction is fundamental to chemical engineering applications such as solvent screening. We present Socrates-Mol, a framework that transforms language models into empirical Bayesian reasoners through context engineering, addressing cold start problems without model fine-tuning. The system implements a reflective-prediction cycle where initial outputs serve as priors, retrieved molecular cases provide evidence, and refined predictions form posteriors, extracting reusable chemical rules from sparse data. We introduce ranking tasks aligned with industrial screening priorities and employ cross-model self-consistency across five language models to reduce variance. Experiments on amine solvent LogP prediction reveal task-dependent patterns: regression achieves 72% MAE reduction and 112% R-squared improvement through self-consistency, while ranking tasks show limited gains due to systematic multi-model biases. The framework reduces deployment costs by over 70% compared to full fine-tuning, providing a scalable solution for molecular property prediction while elucidating the task-adaptive nature of self-consistency mechanisms. |
| title | Socrates-Mol: Self-Oriented Cognitive Reasoning through Autonomous Trial-and-Error with Empirical-Bayesian Screening for Molecules |
| topic | Chemical Physics Machine Learning Quantitative Methods Methodology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11769 |