Monroe: A Molecular Foundation Model for In-Context Probabilistic Inference

📅 2026-08-19
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为解决生物测定活性预测数据有限的问题,本文提出Monroe模型,通过扩大预训练规模、改进图表示等方法提高分子基础模型性能。
📝 Abstract
Bioassay activity prediction is often data-limited because drug-discovery datasets rely on time-consuming and expensive wet-lab experiments for data generation and evaluation. This challenge has inspired recent research into molecular foundation models (MFMs), which aim to encode general-purpose chemical knowledge into molecular representations that generalize well in data-constrained scenarios. This paper presents Monroe, a new MFM with several innovations over the existing state of the art: increased scale allowing pre-training on over 81 million molecules from the PM6 quantum chemistry dataset; improved graph representation of stereochemistry; improved training losses including conformer denoising and embedding decorrelation; improved multi-task learning; and the use of a prior-data-fitted model (TabPFN) for downstream in-context prediction. Our evaluations use a principled pairwise comparison framework that measures statistically significant performance differences. Across established Polaris benchmarks, Monroe matches or exceeds existing MFMs, while on activity cliff benchmarks, designed to assess utility for molecular discovery, it achieves significant improvements over prior methods. Finally, ablation and transfer experiments show that PFN-based downstream predictors also substantially improve two leading existing models, MiniMol and CheMeleon, yielding new state-of-the-art variants we call MiniMol_PFN and CheMeleon_PFN, suggesting that our downstream adaptation strategy generalizes beyond Monroe. Source code is at github.com/blazejba/monroe.
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bioassay activity prediction
data-limited
molecular foundation models
drug-discovery datasets
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molecular foundation model
stereochemistry representation
conformer denoising
embedding decorrelation
multi-task learning
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Blazej Banaszewski
Graphcore, Bristol, UK; Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Munich, DE
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Andrew W. Fitzgibbon
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