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ArticleChemical science2024

Fine-tuning GPT-3 for machine learning electronic and functional properties of organic molecules.

Zikai Xie, Xenophon Evangelopoulos, Ömer H Omar, Alessandro Troisi, Andrew I Cooper, Linjiang Chen

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Article in Chemical science, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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6 authors.

Zikai XieLeverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design, Materials Innovation Factory and Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool Liverpool L7 3NY UK aicooper@liverpool.ac.uk.
Xenophon EvangelopoulosLeverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design, Materials Innovation Factory and Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool Liverpool L7 3NY UK aicooper@liverpool.ac.uk.
Ömer H OmarDepartment of Chemistry, University of Liverpool Liverpool L69 3BX UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5073-4999
Alessandro TroisiDepartment of Chemistry, University of Liverpool Liverpool L69 3BX UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5447-5648
Andrew I CooperLeverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design, Materials Innovation Factory and Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool Liverpool L7 3NY UK aicooper@liverpool.ac.uk.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0201-1021
Linjiang ChenSchool of Chemistry, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham Birmingham B15 2TT UK l.j.chen@bham.ac.uk.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0382-5863

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Abstract

We evaluate the effectiveness of fine-tuning GPT-3 for the prediction of electronic and functional properties of organic molecules. Our findings show that fine-tuned GPT-3 can successfully identify and distinguish between chemically meaningful patterns, and discern subtle differences among them, exhibiting robust predictive performance for the prediction of molecular properties. We focus on assessing the fine-tuned models' resilience to information loss, resulting from the absence of atoms or chemical groups, and to noise that we introduce

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