Bridging the Gap Between Molecule and Textual Descriptions via Substructure-aware Alignment

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26157v1
• Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 05:36:31 GMT
• Title: Bridging the Gap Between Molecule and Textual Descriptions via Substructure-aware Alignment
• Abstract summary: MolBridge is a novel molecule-text learning framework based on substructure-aware alignments.<n>We show that MolBridge effectively captures fine-grained correspondences and outperforms state-of-the-art baselines on a wide range of molecular benchmarks.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Molecule and text representation learning has gained increasing interest due to its potential for enhancing the understanding of chemical information. However, existing models often struggle to capture subtle differences between molecules and their descriptions, as they lack the ability to learn fine-grained alignments between molecular substructures and chemical phrases. To address this limitation, we introduce MolBridge, a novel molecule-text learning framework based on substructure-aware alignments. Specifically, we augment the original molecule-description pairs with additional alignment signals derived from molecular substructures and chemical phrases. To effectively learn from these enriched alignments, MolBridge employs substructure-aware contrastive learning, coupled with a self-refinement mechanism that filters out noisy alignment signals. Experimental results show that MolBridge effectively captures fine-grained correspondences and outperforms state-of-the-art baselines on a wide range of molecular benchmarks, highlighting the significance of substructure-aware alignment in molecule-text learning.

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