Hierarchical Molecular Representation Learning via Fragment-Based Self-Supervised Embedding Prediction
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| author | Wu, Jiele Ma, Haozhe Guo, Zhihan Vo, Thanh Vinh Leong, Tze Yun |
| author_facet | Wu, Jiele Ma, Haozhe Guo, Zhihan Vo, Thanh Vinh Leong, Tze Yun |
| contents | Graph self-supervised learning (GSSL) has demonstrated strong potential for generating expressive graph embeddings without the need for human annotations, making it particularly valuable in domains with high labeling costs such as molecular graph analysis. However, existing GSSL methods mostly focus on node- or edge-level information, often ignoring chemically relevant substructures which strongly influence molecular properties. In this work, we propose Graph Semantic Predictive Network (GraSPNet), a hierarchical self-supervised framework that explicitly models both atomic-level and fragment-level semantics. GraSPNet decomposes molecular graphs into chemically meaningful fragments without predefined vocabularies and learns node- and fragment-level representations through multi-level message passing with masked semantic prediction at both levels. This hierarchical semantic supervision enables GraSPNet to learn multi-resolution structural information that is both expressive and transferable. Extensive experiments on multiple molecular property prediction benchmarks demonstrate that GraSPNet learns chemically meaningful representations and consistently outperforms state-of-the-art GSSL methods in transfer learning settings. |
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| spellingShingle | Hierarchical Molecular Representation Learning via Fragment-Based Self-Supervised Embedding Prediction Wu, Jiele Ma, Haozhe Guo, Zhihan Vo, Thanh Vinh Leong, Tze Yun Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Quantitative Methods Graph self-supervised learning (GSSL) has demonstrated strong potential for generating expressive graph embeddings without the need for human annotations, making it particularly valuable in domains with high labeling costs such as molecular graph analysis. However, existing GSSL methods mostly focus on node- or edge-level information, often ignoring chemically relevant substructures which strongly influence molecular properties. In this work, we propose Graph Semantic Predictive Network (GraSPNet), a hierarchical self-supervised framework that explicitly models both atomic-level and fragment-level semantics. GraSPNet decomposes molecular graphs into chemically meaningful fragments without predefined vocabularies and learns node- and fragment-level representations through multi-level message passing with masked semantic prediction at both levels. This hierarchical semantic supervision enables GraSPNet to learn multi-resolution structural information that is both expressive and transferable. Extensive experiments on multiple molecular property prediction benchmarks demonstrate that GraSPNet learns chemically meaningful representations and consistently outperforms state-of-the-art GSSL methods in transfer learning settings. |
| title | Hierarchical Molecular Representation Learning via Fragment-Based Self-Supervised Embedding Prediction |
| topic | Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Quantitative Methods |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20344 |