A Multi-Agent System Enables Versatile Information Extraction from the Chemical Literature

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20230v2
• Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2025 02:55:37 GMT
• Title: A Multi-Agent System Enables Versatile Information Extraction from the Chemical Literature
• Authors: Yufan Chen, Ching Ting Leung, Bowen Yu, Jianwei Sun, Yong Huang, Linyan Li, Hao Chen, Hanyu Gao,
• Abstract summary: We develop a multimodal large language model (MLLM)-based multi-agent system for robust and automated chemical information extraction.<n>Our system achieved an F1 score of 80.8% on a benchmark dataset of sophisticated multimodal chemical reaction graphics from the literature.
• Score: 8.306442315850878
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: To fully expedite AI-powered chemical research, high-quality chemical databases are the cornerstone. Automatic extraction of chemical information from the literature is essential for constructing reaction databases, but it is currently limited by the multimodality and style variability of chemical information. In this work, we developed a multimodal large language model (MLLM)-based multi-agent system for robust and automated chemical information extraction. It utilizes the MLLM's strong reasoning capability to understand the structure of diverse chemical graphics, decompose the extraction task into sub-tasks, and coordinate a set of specialized agents, each combining the capabilities of the MLLM with the precise, domain-specific strengths of dedicated tools, to solve them accurately and integrate the results into a unified output. Our system achieved an F1 score of 80.8% on a benchmark dataset of sophisticated multimodal chemical reaction graphics from the literature, surpassing the previous state-of-the-art model (F1 score of 35.6%) by a significant margin. Additionally, it demonstrated consistent improvements in key sub-tasks, including molecular image recognition, reaction image parsing, named entity recognition and text-based reaction extraction. This work is a critical step toward automated chemical information extraction into structured datasets, which will be a strong promoter of AI-driven chemical research.

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