Template-Free Retrosynthesis with Graph-Prior Augmented Transformers

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author Zhao, Youjun
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contents Retrosynthesis reaction prediction aims to infer plausible reactant molecules for a given product and is a important problem in computer-aided organic synthesis. Despite recent progress, many existing models still fall short of the accuracy and robustness required for practical deployment. In this paper, we present a template-free, Transformer-based framework that removes the need for handcrafted reaction templates or additional chemical rule engines. Our model injects molecular graph information into the attention mechanism to jointly exploit SMILES sequences and structural cues, and further applies a paired data augmentation strategy to enhance training diversity and scale. Extensive experiments on the USPTO-50K benchmark demonstrate that our approach achieves state-of-the-art performance among template-free methods and substantially outperforms a vanilla Transformer baseline.
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spellingShingle Template-Free Retrosynthesis with Graph-Prior Augmented Transformers
Zhao, Youjun
Machine Learning
Retrosynthesis reaction prediction aims to infer plausible reactant molecules for a given product and is a important problem in computer-aided organic synthesis. Despite recent progress, many existing models still fall short of the accuracy and robustness required for practical deployment. In this paper, we present a template-free, Transformer-based framework that removes the need for handcrafted reaction templates or additional chemical rule engines. Our model injects molecular graph information into the attention mechanism to jointly exploit SMILES sequences and structural cues, and further applies a paired data augmentation strategy to enhance training diversity and scale. Extensive experiments on the USPTO-50K benchmark demonstrate that our approach achieves state-of-the-art performance among template-free methods and substantially outperforms a vanilla Transformer baseline.
title Template-Free Retrosynthesis with Graph-Prior Augmented Transformers
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10770