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Yue Wan, Benben Liao, Chang-Yu Hsieh, Shengyu Zhang

Retroformer performs template-free retrosynthesis by identifying candidate reaction centers in a product molecule and using them to guide reactant generation. Its model combines local molecular-graph attention with global SMILES attention, without using cheminformatics tools to edit molecules at inference. On USPTO-50K with reaction class unknown, Retroformer_aug+ reaches 53.2% top-1 and 82.1% top-10, below template-based LocalRetro.

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