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| author | Lyu, Zhuoqi Ke, Qing |
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| contents | Optical chemical structure recognition (OCSR) translates molecular images into machine-readable representations like SMILES strings or molecular graphs, but remains challenging in real-world documents due to inexhaustible variations in chemical structures, shorthand conventions, and visual noise. Most existing deep-learning-based approaches rely on teacher forcing with token-level Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE). This training paradigm suffers from exposure bias, as models are trained under ground-truth prefixes but must condition on their own previous predictions during inference. Moreover, token-level MLE objectives hinder the optimization towards molecular-level evaluation criteria such as chemical validity and structural similarity. Here we introduce Minimum Risk Training (MRT) to OCSR and propose COMO (Closed-loop Optical Molecule recOgnition), a closed-loop framework that mitigates exposure bias by directly optimizing over molecule-level, non-differentiable objectives, by iteratively sampling and evaluating the model's own predictions. Experiments on ten benchmarks including synthetic and real-world chemical diagrams from patent and scientific literature demonstrate that COMO substantially outperforms existing rule-based and learning-based methods with less training data. Ablation studies further show that MRT is architecture-agnostic, demonstrating its potential for broad application to end-to-end OCSR systems. |
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| spellingShingle | COMO: Closed-Loop Optical Molecule Recognition with Minimum Risk Training Lyu, Zhuoqi Ke, Qing Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Optical chemical structure recognition (OCSR) translates molecular images into machine-readable representations like SMILES strings or molecular graphs, but remains challenging in real-world documents due to inexhaustible variations in chemical structures, shorthand conventions, and visual noise. Most existing deep-learning-based approaches rely on teacher forcing with token-level Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE). This training paradigm suffers from exposure bias, as models are trained under ground-truth prefixes but must condition on their own previous predictions during inference. Moreover, token-level MLE objectives hinder the optimization towards molecular-level evaluation criteria such as chemical validity and structural similarity. Here we introduce Minimum Risk Training (MRT) to OCSR and propose COMO (Closed-loop Optical Molecule recOgnition), a closed-loop framework that mitigates exposure bias by directly optimizing over molecule-level, non-differentiable objectives, by iteratively sampling and evaluating the model's own predictions. Experiments on ten benchmarks including synthetic and real-world chemical diagrams from patent and scientific literature demonstrate that COMO substantially outperforms existing rule-based and learning-based methods with less training data. Ablation studies further show that MRT is architecture-agnostic, demonstrating its potential for broad application to end-to-end OCSR systems. |
| title | COMO: Closed-Loop Optical Molecule Recognition with Minimum Risk Training |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23546 |