MotifAgent: Learning Molecular Assembly through Multi-Agent Collaboration for Chemical Language Understanding (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing approaches to molecular understanding are limited to static motif recognition without understanding connection rules governing how motifs assemble into valid topological structures. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-agent reinforcement learning framework inspired by emergent collective intelligence to solve a problem where each motif is represented by an agent sharing a common LLM backbone. |
| Outcome: | Extensive experiments show that the proposed framework surpasses specialized expert models in molecular understanding tasks. |
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