MT-Mol:Multi Agent System with Tool-based Reasoning for Molecular Optimization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20820v1
• Date: Tue, 27 May 2025 07:27:30 GMT
• Title: MT-Mol:Multi Agent System with Tool-based Reasoning for Molecular Optimization
• Authors: Hyomin Kim, Yunhui Jang, Sungsoo Ahn,
• Abstract summary: We introduce MT-Mol, a multi-agent framework for molecular optimization using large language models (LLMs)<n>Our system incorporates comprehensive RDKit tools, categorized into five distinct domains: structural descriptors, electronic and topological features, fragment-based functional groups, molecular representations, and miscellaneous chemical properties.<n> MT-Mol produces molecules with tool-aligned and stepwise reasoning through the interaction between the analyst agents, a molecule-generating scientist, a reasoning-output verifier, and a reviewer agent.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have large potential for molecular optimization, as they can gather external chemistry tools and enable collaborative interactions to iteratively refine molecular candidates. However, this potential remains underexplored, particularly in the context of structured reasoning, interpretability, and comprehensive tool-grounded molecular optimization. To address this gap, we introduce MT-Mol, a multi-agent framework for molecular optimization that leverages tool-guided reasoning and role-specialized LLM agents. Our system incorporates comprehensive RDKit tools, categorized into five distinct domains: structural descriptors, electronic and topological features, fragment-based functional groups, molecular representations, and miscellaneous chemical properties. Each category is managed by an expert analyst agent, responsible for extracting task-relevant tools and enabling interpretable, chemically grounded feedback. MT-Mol produces molecules with tool-aligned and stepwise reasoning through the interaction between the analyst agents, a molecule-generating scientist, a reasoning-output verifier, and a reviewer agent. As a result, we show that our framework shows the state-of-the-art performance of the PMO-1K benchmark on 17 out of 23 tasks.

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