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ArticleJournal of chemical theory and computation2026

Quantum Chemistry-Driven Molecular Inverse Design of Stable Isomers with Data-Free Reinforcement Learning.

Francesco Calcagno, Luca Serfilippi, Giorgio Franceschelli, Marco Garavelli, Mirco Musolesi, Ivan Rivalta

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Article in Journal of chemical theory and computation, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Francesco CalcagnoDepartment of Industrial Chemistry, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna 40129, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0986-4425
Luca SerfilippiDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna 40136, Italy.
Giorgio FranceschelliDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna 40136, Italy.
Marco GaravelliDepartment of Industrial Chemistry, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna 40129, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0796-289X
Mirco MusolesiDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna 40136, Italy.
Ivan RivaltaDepartment of Industrial Chemistry, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna 40129, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1208-602X

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Abstract

The inverse design (ID) of molecules remains one of the greatest challenges in chemistry. Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) methods are increasingly employed to generate candidate molecules with tailored properties but mostly rely on pretraining over large data sets, which introduces bias. Here, we present a data-free generative AI model called PROTEUS that integrates reinforcement learning with on-the-fly quantum mechanical calculations to enable the

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