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ArticleDigital discovery2025

Setting new benchmarks in AI-driven infrared structure elucidation.

Marvin Alberts, Federico Zipoli, Teodoro Laino

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Article in Digital discovery, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Marvin AlbertsIBM Research Europe Säumerstrasse 4 8803 Rüschlikon Switzerland marvin.alberts@ibm.com.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0003-9198-7866
Federico ZipoliIBM Research Europe Säumerstrasse 4 8803 Rüschlikon Switzerland marvin.alberts@ibm.com.
Teodoro LainoIBM Research Europe Säumerstrasse 4 8803 Rüschlikon Switzerland marvin.alberts@ibm.com.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8717-0456

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Automated structure elucidation from infrared (IR) spectra represents a significant breakthrough in analytical chemistry, having recently gained momentum through the application of Transformer-based language models. In this work, we improve our original Transformer architecture, refine spectral data representations, and implement novel augmentation and decoding strategies to significantly increase performance. We report a Top-1 accuracy of 63.79% and a Top-10 accuracy of 83.95% compared to the current performance of state-of-the-art models of 53.56% and 80.36%, respectively. Our findings not only set a new performance benchmark but also strengthen confidence in the promising future of AI-driven IR spectroscopy as a practical and powerful tool for structure elucidation. To facilitate broad adoption among chemical laboratories and domain experts, we openly share our models and code.

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PMCPMC12203481

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