OrgFlow: Generative Modeling of Organic Crystal Structures from Molecular Graphs

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20195v1
• Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2026 04:01:06 GMT
• Title: OrgFlow: Generative Modeling of Organic Crystal Structures from Molecular Graphs
• Authors: Mohammadmahdi Vahediahmar, Matthew A. McDonald, Feng Liu,
• Abstract summary: We introduce a flow-matching model for predicting organic crystal structures directly from molecular graphs.<n>A bond-aware loss guides the model toward realistic local chemistry by enforcing distributions of bond lengths and connectivity.<n>Experiments show that our method achieves a Match Rate more than 10 times higher than existing baselines.
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• Abstract: Crystal structure prediction is a long-standing challenge in materials science, with most data-driven methods developed for inorganic systems. This leaves an important gap for organic crystals, which are central to pharmaceuticals, polymers, and functional materials, but present unique challenges, such as larger unit cells and strict chemical connectivity. We introduce a flow-matching model for predicting organic crystal structures directly from molecular graphs. The architecture integrates molecular connectivity with periodic boundary conditions while preserving the symmetries of crystalline systems. A bond-aware loss guides the model toward realistic local chemistry by enforcing distributions of bond lengths and connectivity. To support reliable and efficient training, we built a curated dataset of organic crystals, along with a preprocessing pipeline that precomputes bonds and edges, substantially reducing computational overhead during both training and inference. Experiments show that our method achieves a Match Rate more than 10 times higher than existing baselines while requiring fewer sampling steps for inference. These results establish generative modeling as a practical and scalable framework for organic crystal structure prediction.

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