Molecular Identifier Visual Prompt and Verifiable Reinforcement Learning for Chemical Reaction Diagram Parsing

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Auteurs principaux: Song, Jiahe, Wang, Chuang, Wang, Yinfan, Zheng, Hao, Nie, Rui, Jiang, Bowen, Wei, Xingjian, Gao, Junyuan, Wang, Yubin, Wang, Bin, Wu, Lijun, Wu, Jiang, Yu, Qian, He, Conghui
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author Song, Jiahe
Wang, Chuang
Wang, Yinfan
Zheng, Hao
Nie, Rui
Jiang, Bowen
Wei, Xingjian
Gao, Junyuan
Wang, Yubin
Wang, Bin
Wu, Lijun
Wu, Jiang
Yu, Qian
He, Conghui
author_facet Song, Jiahe
Wang, Chuang
Wang, Yinfan
Zheng, Hao
Nie, Rui
Jiang, Bowen
Wei, Xingjian
Gao, Junyuan
Wang, Yubin
Wang, Bin
Wu, Lijun
Wu, Jiang
Yu, Qian
He, Conghui
contents Reaction diagram parsing (RxnDP) is critical for extracting chemical synthesis information from literature. Although recent Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm to automate this complex visual reasoning task, their application is fundamentally bottlenecked by the inability to align visual chemical entities with pre-trained knowledge, alongside the inherent discrepancy between token-level training and reaction-level evaluation. To address these dual challenges, this work enhances VLM-based RxnDP from two complementary perspectives: prompting representation and learning paradigms. First, we propose Identifier as Visual Prompting (IdtVP), which leverages naturally occurring molecule identifiers (e.g., bold numerals like 1a) to activate the chemical knowledge acquired during VLM pre-training. IdtVP enables powerful zero-shot and out-of-distribution capabilities, outperforming existing prompting strategies. Second, to further optimize performance within fine-tuning paradigms, we introduce Re3-DAPO, a reinforcement learning algorithm that leverages verifiable rewards to directly optimize reaction-level metrics, thereby achieving consistent gains over standard supervised fine-tuning. Additionally, we release the ScannedRxn benchmark, comprising scanned historical reaction diagrams with real-world artifacts, to rigorously assess model robustness and out-of-distribution ability. Our contributions advance the accuracy and generalization of VLM-based reaction diagram parsing. We will release data, models, and code on GitHub.
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spellingShingle Molecular Identifier Visual Prompt and Verifiable Reinforcement Learning for Chemical Reaction Diagram Parsing
Song, Jiahe
Wang, Chuang
Wang, Yinfan
Zheng, Hao
Nie, Rui
Jiang, Bowen
Wei, Xingjian
Gao, Junyuan
Wang, Yubin
Wang, Bin
Wu, Lijun
Wu, Jiang
Yu, Qian
He, Conghui
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Reaction diagram parsing (RxnDP) is critical for extracting chemical synthesis information from literature. Although recent Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm to automate this complex visual reasoning task, their application is fundamentally bottlenecked by the inability to align visual chemical entities with pre-trained knowledge, alongside the inherent discrepancy between token-level training and reaction-level evaluation. To address these dual challenges, this work enhances VLM-based RxnDP from two complementary perspectives: prompting representation and learning paradigms. First, we propose Identifier as Visual Prompting (IdtVP), which leverages naturally occurring molecule identifiers (e.g., bold numerals like 1a) to activate the chemical knowledge acquired during VLM pre-training. IdtVP enables powerful zero-shot and out-of-distribution capabilities, outperforming existing prompting strategies. Second, to further optimize performance within fine-tuning paradigms, we introduce Re3-DAPO, a reinforcement learning algorithm that leverages verifiable rewards to directly optimize reaction-level metrics, thereby achieving consistent gains over standard supervised fine-tuning. Additionally, we release the ScannedRxn benchmark, comprising scanned historical reaction diagrams with real-world artifacts, to rigorously assess model robustness and out-of-distribution ability. Our contributions advance the accuracy and generalization of VLM-based reaction diagram parsing. We will release data, models, and code on GitHub.
title Molecular Identifier Visual Prompt and Verifiable Reinforcement Learning for Chemical Reaction Diagram Parsing
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15011