ReactionTeam: Teaming Experts for Divergent Thinking Beyond Typical Reaction Patterns
Guo, Taicheng Ma, Changsheng Chen, Xiuying Nan, Bozhao Guo, Kehan Pei, Shichao Wiest, Olaf Chawla, Nitesh V Zhang, Xiangliang
Guo, Taicheng
Ma, Changsheng
Chen, Xiuying
Nan, Bozhao
Guo, Kehan
Pei, Shichao
Wiest, Olaf
Chawla, Nitesh V
Zhang, Xiangliang
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Reaction prediction, a critical task in synthetic chemistry, is to predict the outcome of a reaction based on given reactants. Generative models like Transformer have typically been employed to predict the reaction product. However, these likelihood-maximization models overlooked the inherent stochastic nature of chemical reactions, such as the multiple ways electrons can be redistributed among atoms during the reaction process. In scenarios where similar reactants could follow different electron redistribution patterns, these models typically predict the most common outcomes, neglecting less frequent but potentially crucial reaction patterns. These overlooked patterns, though rare, can lead to innovative methods for designing synthetic routes and significantly advance synthesis techniques. To address these limitations, we build a team of expert models to capture diverse plausible reaction outcomes for the same reactants, mimicking the divergent thinking of chemists. The proposed framework, ReactionTeam, is composed of specialized expert models, each trained to capture a distinct type of electron redistribution pattern in reaction, and a ranking expert that evaluates and orders the generated predictions. Experimental results across two widely used datasets and different data settings demonstrate that our proposed method achieves significantly better performance compared to existing state-of-the-art approaches.
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T. Guo, C. Ma, X. Chen, B. Nan, K. Guo, S. Pei , et al., "ReactionTeam: Teaming Experts for Divergent Thinking Beyond Typical Reaction Patterns," 2026, pp. 520-529.
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2025 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData)
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46 Information and Computing Sciences, 4605 Data Management and Data Science
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2025 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData)
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IEEE