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ArticleChemical science2024

nach0: multimodal natural and chemical languages foundation model.

Micha Livne, Zulfat Miftahutdinov, Elena Tutubalina, Maksim Kuznetsov, Daniil Polykovskiy, Annika Brundyn, Aastha Jhunjhunwala, Anthony Costa, Alex Aliper, Alán Aspuru-Guzik and 1 more

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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 19 papers.

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11 authors.

Micha LivneNVIDIA 2788 San Tomas Expressway Santa Clara 95051 CA USA.
Zulfat MiftahutdinovInsilico Medicine Canada Inc. 3710-1250 René-Lévesque West Montreal Quebec Canada.
Elena TutubalinaInsilico Medicine Hong Kong Ltd. Unit 310, 3/F, Building 8W, Phase 2, Hong Kong Science Park, Pak Shek Kok New Territories Hong Kong alex@insilicomedicine.com.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7936-0284
Maksim KuznetsovInsilico Medicine Canada Inc. 3710-1250 René-Lévesque West Montreal Quebec Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8446-7983
Daniil PolykovskiyInsilico Medicine Canada Inc. 3710-1250 René-Lévesque West Montreal Quebec Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0899-8368
Annika BrundynNVIDIA 2788 San Tomas Expressway Santa Clara 95051 CA USA.
Aastha JhunjhunwalaNVIDIA 2788 San Tomas Expressway Santa Clara 95051 CA USA.
Anthony CostaNVIDIA 2788 San Tomas Expressway Santa Clara 95051 CA USA.
Alex AliperInsilico Medicine AI Ltd. Level 6, Unit 08, Block A, IRENA HQ Building, Masdar City Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates.
Alán Aspuru-GuzikUniversity of Toronto Lash Miller Building 80 St. George Street Toronto Ontario Canada alan@aspuru.com.
Alex ZhavoronkovInsilico Medicine Hong Kong Ltd. Unit 310, 3/F, Building 8W, Phase 2, Hong Kong Science Park, Pak Shek Kok New Territories Hong Kong alex@insilicomedicine.com.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7067-8966

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Large Language Models (LLMs) have substantially driven scientific progress in various domains, and many papers have demonstrated their ability to tackle complex problems with creative solutions. Our paper introduces a new foundation model, nach0, capable of solving various chemical and biological tasks: biomedical question answering, named entity recognition, molecular generation, molecular synthesis, attributes prediction, and others. nach0 is a multi-domain and multi-task encoder-decoder LLM pre-trained on unlabeled text from scientific literature, patents, and molecule strings to incorporate a range of chemical and linguistic knowledge. We employed instruction tuning, where specific task-related instructions are utilized to fine-tune nach0 for the final set of tasks. To train nach0 effectively, we leverage the NeMo framework, enabling efficient parallel optimization of both base and large model versions. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our model outperforms state-of-the-art baselines on single-domain and cross-domain tasks. Furthermore, it can generate high-quality outputs in molecular and textual formats, showcasing its effectiveness in multi-domain setups.

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PMCPMC11151847

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