Precision-Guarded Graph–Text Alignment for Universal Chemical Understanding
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated transformative potential in scientific discovery but frequently suffer from “semantic-structure misalignment”─generating syntactically plausible but chemically invalid structures, or failing to capture precise numerical properties. Existing multimodal adaptations often employ naive projection layers that, under mixed-precision training, lead to feature collapse and the loss of fine-grained topological information. In this work, we propose Deep Graph–Text Alignment (DGTA), a precision-first framework designed to unify structural generation and regression precision. Crucially, we introduce a Stability-Optimized Graph Tokenizer equipped with Float32 Precision Guards and LayerNorm Constraints. Extensive experiments demonstrate DGTA’s universality: (1) Quantum Precision: achieving SOTA regression on QM9 (MAE 0.0068); (2) Broad Classification: attaining 79.6% Avg AUC on MoleculeNet; and (3) Generative Robustness: reducing material design error by 59% (MAE 75.53 → 30.83) while achieving 93.16% structural validity on MolQA.
Authors
- Changhang Lin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2477-0988)
- Yongqiu Lin
- Lian Shen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9281-018X)
- Zhongyu He (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6380-4303)
- Jinjin Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9947-6858)
- Xiaorui Kang
- Leyi Wei (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1444-190X)
- Xiangrong Liu
- Chen Su
Institutions
- Xiamen University (CN)
- Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (IN)
- Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Canada) (CA)
- Macao Polytechnic University (MO)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
- Published
- 2026-05-28
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jcim.6c01205
- Primary Topic
- Machine Learning in Materials Science
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Fundo para o Desenvolvimento das Ciências e da Tecnologia
- National Major Science and Technology Projects of China