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MolecularIQ

Intern-S2-397B 62.4% In use

Models answer questions about molecular graphs, such as counting, indexing and constrained generation, and a symbolic checker verifies each answer.

In the authors’ words

A molecule's properties are fundamentally determined by its composition and structure encoded in its molecular graph. Thus, reasoning about molecular properties requires the ability to parse and understand the molecular graph. Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to chemistry, tackling tasks such as molecular name conversion, captioning, text-guided generation, and property or reaction prediction. Most existing benchmarks emphasize general chemical knowledge, rely on literature or surrogate labels that risk leakage or bias, or reduce evaluation to multiple-choice questions. We introduce MolecularIQ, a molecular structure reasoning benchmark focused exclusively on symbolically verifiable tasks. MolecularIQ enables fine-grained evaluation of reasoning over molecular graphs and reveals capability patterns that localize model failures to specific tasks and molecular structures. This provides actionable insights into the strengths and limitations of current chemistry LLMs and guides the development of models that reason faithfully over molecular structure.

Abstract of MolecularIQ: Characterizing Chemical Reasoning Capabilities Through Symbolic Verification on Molecular Graphs (arXiv:2601.15279, CC0)
Made by Johannes Kepler University Linz (Bartmann, Klambauer, Luukkonen et al.) Released Jan 2026 Genomics and life sciences All tasks public Last in a launch post Sep 2026 Last model added Sep 2026
Level
Expert Specialists with years of training, often over hours of work
Scored
Checked automatically A program checks the result against an answer key, unit tests or the expected final state.
Answers
Short answer A number, word or short string matched to a key.
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Intern-S2-397B leads with 62.4%

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  1. 1 Intern-S2-397B 62.4%
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1 Intern-S2-397B 62.4% Sep 2026 Model card

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Shanghai AI Lab
DateLaunch postScoreAs the post writes it
13 Sep 2026 Intern-S2-397B 62.4 MolecularIQ

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