A large-scale foundation model enables simulation-to-real adaptation for nuclear magnetic resonance-based molecular structure analysis

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.20756v1
• Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:58:33 GMT
• Title: A large-scale foundation model enables simulation-to-real adaptation for nuclear magnetic resonance-based molecular structure analysis
• Abstract summary: We introduce UltraNMR, a large-scale foundation model for NMR to learn generalizable spectral representations.<n>We show that UltraNMR consistently yields state-of-the-art performance and clearly outperforms UltraNMR variants trained directly on downstream data.<n>In real-world applications, UltraNMR facilitates the structural elucidation of two previously unknown natural products recorded in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia.
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• Abstract: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a powerful tool for molecular structure analysis, and spectral artificial intelligence offers great potential for its rapid and automated interpretation. However, the scarcity of experimental NMR datasets has constrained deep learning in this domain to narrow, task-specific applications that lack broad generalization. Here, we introduce UltraNMR, a large-scale foundation model for NMR that leverages the intrinsic properties of NMR spectra to learn generalizable spectral representations. We collected 158 million paired simulated $^{1}$H and $^{13}$C NMR spectra to train UltraNMR, employing multiple domain-specific pre-training objectives. UltraNMR captures both intra-spectral and inter-spectral dependencies, enabling seamless simulation-to-real adaptation. We demonstrate that adapting UltraNMR to a range of molecular structure analysis tasks on experimental NMR spectra consistently yields state-of-the-art performance and clearly outperforms UltraNMR variants trained directly on downstream data without simulation pre-training. We also construct a large-scale NMR spectral vector library by encoding simulated NMR spectra using UltraNMR, covering 94 million unique molecules and enabling effective structure-aware retrieval. In real-world applications, UltraNMR facilitates the structural elucidation of two previously unknown natural products from Chinese herbal medicines recorded in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia. These results suggest that large-scale simulation pre-training can effectively bridge the simulation-to-real gap, enabling robust and generalizable molecular structure analysis of real-world NMR spectra.

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