Latent Diffusion-Based 3D Molecular Recovery from Vibrational Spectra

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Hauptverfasser: Wu, Wenjin, Leonardis, Aleš, Chen, Linjiang, Jiao, Jianbo
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author Wu, Wenjin
Leonardis, Aleš
Chen, Linjiang
Jiao, Jianbo
author_facet Wu, Wenjin
Leonardis, Aleš
Chen, Linjiang
Jiao, Jianbo
contents Infrared (IR) spectroscopy, a type of vibrational spectroscopy, is widely used for molecular structure determination and provides critical structural information for chemists. However, existing approaches for recovering molecular structures from IR spectra typically rely on one-dimensional SMILES strings or two-dimensional molecular graphs, which fail to capture the intricate relationship between spectral features and three-dimensional molecular geometry. Recent advances in diffusion models have greatly enhanced the ability to generate molecular structures in 3D space. Yet, no existing model has explored the distribution of 3D molecular geometries corresponding to a single IR spectrum. In this work, we introduce IR-GeoDiff, a latent diffusion model that recovers 3D molecular geometries from IR spectra by integrating spectral information into both node and edge representations of molecular structures. We evaluate IR-GeoDiff from both spectral and structural perspectives, demonstrating its ability to recover the molecular distribution corresponding to a given IR spectrum. Furthermore, an attention-based analysis reveals that the model is able to focus on characteristic functional group regions in IR spectra, qualitatively consistent with common chemical interpretation practices.
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spellingShingle Latent Diffusion-Based 3D Molecular Recovery from Vibrational Spectra
Wu, Wenjin
Leonardis, Aleš
Chen, Linjiang
Jiao, Jianbo
Machine Learning
Chemical Physics
Infrared (IR) spectroscopy, a type of vibrational spectroscopy, is widely used for molecular structure determination and provides critical structural information for chemists. However, existing approaches for recovering molecular structures from IR spectra typically rely on one-dimensional SMILES strings or two-dimensional molecular graphs, which fail to capture the intricate relationship between spectral features and three-dimensional molecular geometry. Recent advances in diffusion models have greatly enhanced the ability to generate molecular structures in 3D space. Yet, no existing model has explored the distribution of 3D molecular geometries corresponding to a single IR spectrum. In this work, we introduce IR-GeoDiff, a latent diffusion model that recovers 3D molecular geometries from IR spectra by integrating spectral information into both node and edge representations of molecular structures. We evaluate IR-GeoDiff from both spectral and structural perspectives, demonstrating its ability to recover the molecular distribution corresponding to a given IR spectrum. Furthermore, an attention-based analysis reveals that the model is able to focus on characteristic functional group regions in IR spectra, qualitatively consistent with common chemical interpretation practices.
title Latent Diffusion-Based 3D Molecular Recovery from Vibrational Spectra
topic Machine Learning
Chemical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.06113