Summary of Molreflect: Towards In-context Fine-grained Alignments Between Molecules and Texts, by Jiatong Li et al.
MolReFlect: Towards In-Context Fine-grained Alignments between Molecules and Texts
by Jiatong Li, Yunqing Liu, Wei Liu, Jingdi Le, Di Zhang, Wenqi Fan, Dongzhan Zhou, Yuqiang Li, Qing Li
First submitted to arxiv on: 22 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary Molecule discovery is a crucial research area that affects various aspects, including medicine and materials science. Despite the widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) for molecule understanding and generation, aligning molecules with their corresponding captions remains a significant challenge. Previous attempts often treated molecules as general SMILES strings or molecular graphs, neglecting the fine-grained alignments between molecular sub-structures and descriptive textual phrases, which are essential for accurate predictions. To address this issue, we introduce MolReFlect, a novel teacher-student framework that performs molecule-caption alignments in a fine-grained manner. Our approach leverages a larger teacher LLM to label detailed alignments by extracting critical phrases from molecule captions or SMILES strings and implying them to corresponding sub-structures or characteristics. We refine these alignments using In-Context Selective Reflection, which retrieves previous extraction results as context examples for the teacher LLM to reflect and lets a smaller student LLM select from in-context reflection and previous extraction results. Finally, we enhance the learning process of the student LLM through Chain-of-Thought In-Context Molecule Tuning, integrating fine-grained alignments and reasoning processes within the Chain-of-Thought format. Our experimental results demonstrate that MolReFlect enables LLMs like Mistral-7B to significantly outperform previous baselines, achieving SOTA performance on the ChEBI-20 dataset. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Molecule discovery is a big deal because it helps us create new medicines and materials. Right now, computers are getting better at understanding molecules and generating text about them, but there’s still a problem: making sure the computer-generated text matches the molecule perfectly. Some previous attempts tried to solve this by looking at the molecule as a whole, rather than breaking it down into smaller parts. But this isn’t good enough because the details matter. To fix this, we created MolReFlect, a new way for computers to understand molecules and generate text about them that’s accurate and explainable. Our approach uses a bigger computer program (the teacher) to help label the details of the molecule and its corresponding text. Then, we use another computer program (the student) to refine these labels based on what it learned from the teacher. Finally, we make sure the student learns by giving it feedback in the form of Chain-of-Thought format. Our experiments show that MolReFlect works really well, beating previous methods on a specific dataset. |
