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Do Language Models Dream of Binding Molecules? Benchmarking LLMs under Spatial Constraints
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Researchers benchmarked general-purpose language models on structure-based drug design tasks involving 3D molecular generation with spatial constraints like protein pockets and pharmacophore points.
- Why it matters
- Drug discovery engineers and computational chemists evaluating whether LLMs can complement or replace specialized diffusion models for molecule generation workflows.
- Watch out
- LLMs still underperform state-of-the-art diffusion models at this task, though they handle multiple constraints simultaneously, suggesting limited spatial reasoning capability remains.
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