Datasets:
license: gpl-3.0
language:
- en
pretty_name: SELFormerMM
size_categories:
- 1M<n<10M
task_categories:
- tabular-classification
- tabular-regression
- feature-extraction
- graph-ml
tags:
- chemistry
- cheminformatics
- drug-discovery
- molecular-property-prediction
- multimodal
- selfies
- chembl
- moleculenet
- representation-learning
configs:
- config_name: bace
data_files: finetuning_datasets/classification/bace/bace.csv
- config_name: bbbp
data_files: finetuning_datasets/classification/bbbp/bbbp.csv
- config_name: hiv
data_files: finetuning_datasets/classification/hiv/hiv.csv
- config_name: sider
data_files: finetuning_datasets/classification/sider/sider.csv
- config_name: tox21
data_files: finetuning_datasets/classification/tox21/tox21.csv
- config_name: esol
data_files: finetuning_datasets/regression/esol/esol.csv
- config_name: freesolv
data_files: finetuning_datasets/regression/freesolv/freesolv.csv
- config_name: lipo
data_files: finetuning_datasets/regression/lipo/lipo.csv
- config_name: pdbbind_full
data_files: finetuning_datasets/regression/pdbbind_full/pdbbind_full.csv
SELFormerMM
Multimodal molecular representation data for SELFormerMM — an extension of SELFormer that aligns four complementary views of a molecule in a shared embedding space: SELFIES sequences, 3D/structural graphs, textual descriptions, and knowledge-graph context, trained with multimodal supervised contrastive learning on ~2.9M molecules.
Paper: SELFormerMM: multimodal molecular representation learning via SELFIES, structure, text, and knowledge graph integration (Bioinformatics, 2026)
Code: https://github.com/HUBioDataLab/SELFormerMM
This repository bundles everything needed to reproduce or build on SELFormerMM:
| Component | What it is |
|---|---|
pretraining_datasets/ |
2,854,815 ChEMBL v36 molecules with precomputed structure, text and KG embeddings, plus the heterogeneous KG itself |
finetuning_datasets/ |
9 downstream MoleculeNet benchmarks (BACE, BBBP, HIV, SIDER, Tox21, ESOL, FreeSolv, Lipophilicity, PDBbind), each with a metadata CSV and an aligned .npz of the three non-SELFIES modalities |
models/SELFormerMM/ |
The multimodal RoBERTa backbone pretrained on the data above |
models/finetuned/ |
One fine-tuned checkpoint per downstream task |
models/DMGI/ |
The DMGI encoder used to produce the knowledge-graph embeddings |
Every artifact in this repository is row-aligned. Row i of a metadata CSV describes the same
molecule as row i of every .npy / .npz array that accompanies it.
A molecule that has no description, no KG node, or a structure that failed RDKit validation gets a zero vector in that modality rather than being dropped. Downstream code is expected to treat an all-zero row as "modality missing".
If you regenerate any modality yourself, you must preserve this ordering or the model will silently receive mismatched inputs.
Pretraining data
pretraining_datasets/ — 2,854,815 drug-like molecules drawn from ChEMBL v36.
| File | Shape / size | Description |
|---|---|---|
pretraining_dataset_meta.csv |
2,854,815 rows, 1.7 GB | Identifiers, structures and raw descriptions |
graph_embeddings.npy |
(2854815, 512) float32 |
Uni-Mol [CLS] representations |
text_embeddings.npy |
(2854815, 768) float32 |
SciBERT mean-pooled description embeddings |
kg_embeddings.npy |
(2854815, 128) float32 |
DMGI node embeddings |
selformermm_kg_heterodata.pt |
2.2 GB | The CROssBAR v2 subgraph as a PyTorch Geometric HeteroData object |
pretraining_dataset_meta.csv columns
| Column | Description |
|---|---|
selfies |
SELFIES string — the model's primary input |
chembl_id |
ChEMBL identifier, e.g. CHEMBL153534 |
canonical_smiles |
Canonical SMILES from ChEMBL |
standard_inchi |
InChI |
standard_inchi_key |
InChIKey |
cid |
PubChem CID, when a mapping exists |
Description |
Textual description mapped from the M3-20M dataset |
kg_compound_node_idx |
Index of this compound's node in selformermm_kg_heterodata.pt, when present in the CROssBAR v2 subgraph |
Modality coverage
| Modality | Molecules with a non-zero vector | Coverage | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| SELFIES | 2,854,815 | 100.00% | ChEMBL v36 SMILES, converted with selfies |
| Structure (Uni-Mol) | 2,854,734 | 100.00% | 81 molecules failed RDKit validation and were excluded |
| Text (description) | 492,702 | 17.26% | Mapped to M3-20M |
| Knowledge graph | 725,908 | 25.43% | CROssBAR v2 subgraph |
The knowledge graph
selformermm_kg_heterodata.pt is a focused subgraph of CROssBAR v2 (which itself integrates 34
heterogeneous biomedical sources), restricted to the node and edge types most directly tied to
molecular properties — compounds, proteins, drugs and genes. It contains 1,402,102 nodes and
4,424,830 relationships. Node indices referenced by kg_compound_node_idx are into the
Compound node store, whose mapping attribute keys are of the form chembl:CHEMBL6206.
How the embeddings were produced
Every non-SELFIES encoder is a frozen pretrained checkpoint — only the SELFIES encoder and the projection networks were trained.
- Structure — 512-d. Uni-Mol (
unimol_tools.UniMolRepr,data_type="molecule", hydrogens retained) applied to the canonical SMILES; thecls_reprvector is taken as the molecule representation. - Text — 768-d. SciBERT (
allenai/scibert_scivocab_uncased), max length 512, mean-pooling over the last hidden state of theDescriptionfield. - Knowledge graph — 128-d. A DMGI (Deep Multiplex Graph Infomax) encoder — one
GCNConvper relation type with a bilinear discriminator against a per-relation graph summary — trained onselformermm_kg_heterodata.pt. Per-relation node embeddings are averaged to give the final vector. The checkpoint is atmodels/DMGI/dmgi_model.pt.
All three matrices are mean-centered and L2-normalized over the non-zero rows; zero rows (missing modality) are left untouched so they stay exactly zero.
Fine-tuning datasets
finetuning_datasets/ — nine downstream benchmarks, each a directory containing <task>.csv and
<task>_embs.npz. The .npz holds three arrays, graph (n, 512), text (n, 768) and
kg (n, 128), row-aligned to the CSV and produced by the same encoders as the pretraining data.
Classification
| Task | Molecules | Label column(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
bace |
1,513 | Class |
Binary — human β-secretase 1 inhibition. 691 positives (45.7%) |
bbbp |
2,039 | p_np |
Binary — blood–brain barrier permeability. 1,560 positives (76.5%) |
hiv |
41,127 | HIV_active |
Binary — HIV replication inhibition. 1,443 positives (3.5%) |
sider |
1,427 | 27 columns | Multi-label — adverse drug reactions by MedDRA system organ class |
tox21 |
7,831 | 12 columns | Multi-label — nuclear-receptor and stress-response toxicity assays |
Regression
| Task | Molecules | Target column | Range (mean) |
|---|---|---|---|
esol |
1,128 | measured log solubility in mols per litre |
−11.60 … 1.58 (−3.05) |
freesolv |
642 | freesolv |
−25.47 … 3.43 (−3.80) |
lipo |
4,200 | lipo |
−1.50 … 4.50 (2.19) |
pdbbind_full |
9,880 | -logKd/Ki |
0.40 … 9.30 (6.24) |
Besides its label column(s), every task CSV carries selfies, smiles, and the mapping columns
standard_inchi_key, cid, Description, chembl_id, canonical_smiles, kg_compound_node_idx.
esol additionally keeps the original MoleculeNet descriptor columns.
Per-task modality coverage
Percentage of rows with a non-zero vector in each modality:
| Task | n | Graph | Text | KG | All four |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
bace |
1,513 | 100.00% | 7.40% | 13.09% | 2.12% |
bbbp |
2,039 | 100.00% | 67.48% | 2.70% | 1.86% |
hiv |
41,127 | 99.98% | 14.23% | 0.78% | 0.28% |
sider |
1,427 | 91.03% | 80.66% | 1.89% | 1.40% |
tox21 |
7,831 | 99.90% | 76.76% | 4.61% | 3.75% |
esol |
1,128 | 100.00% | 88.30% | 3.55% | 3.46% |
freesolv |
642 | 100.00% | 91.59% | 4.83% | 4.67% |
lipo |
4,200 | 100.00% | 32.19% | 24.05% | 5.24% |
pdbbind_full |
9,880 | 99.91% | 23.66% | 4.96% | 1.47% |
SELFIES coverage is 100% for every task.
Splits
The CSVs are shipped unsplit. The paper's protocol is 80/10/10 train/validation/test, with
scaffold splitting for the binary classification tasks (BACE, BBBP, HIV) and random splitting
for the multilabel and regression tasks. train_finetuning.py reproduces this via --use_scaffold,
--train_frac/--val_frac/--test_frac and --seed; reported numbers are means over three seeds.
Models
models/SELFormerMM/ — pretrained multimodal backbone
A RoBERTa encoder over SELFIES (12 layers, hidden size 768, 4 attention heads, vocabulary 800,
max position 514), initialized from SELFormer, with
three parallel projection MLPs that map the structure (512-d), text (768-d) and KG (128-d) vectors
into the same 768-d space. Each projection expands and contracts the dimension through
×4 → ×6 → ×6 → ×4 → ×1 of the hidden size with LayerNorm + ReLU between layers.
246,245,376 trainable parameters in total.
Trained with SINCERE loss (τ = 0.07), a supervised extension of InfoNCE that accommodates multiple positive views per molecule. The three auxiliary encoders stay frozen; only the SELFIES encoder and the projections are updated. Includes the SELFIES BPE tokenizer.
models/finetuned/<task>/
One checkpoint per downstream task (bace, bbbp, esol, freesolv, hiv, lipo,
pdbbind_full, sider, tox21). Each directory holds the task tokenizer plus model.pt, a
checkpoint dict with backbone and head state dicts, loadable by predict.py in the code
repository.
models/DMGI/dmgi_model.pt
The DMGI encoder checkpoint that generated kg_embeddings.npy.
Reported performance
Selected results from the paper, mean ± standard deviation over three random seeds. ROC-AUC for classification (higher is better), RMSE for regression (lower is better). See the paper for the full table and the unimodal/multimodal baselines.
| Task | Metric | SELFormerMM |
|---|---|---|
| SIDER | ROC-AUC | 0.751 ± 0.013 |
| BACE | ROC-AUC | 0.779 ± 0.021 |
| BBBP | ROC-AUC | 0.947 ± 0.005 |
| HIV | ROC-AUC | 0.788 ± 0.025 |
| Tox21 | ROC-AUC | 0.845 ± 0.012 |
| ESOL | RMSE | 0.672 ± 0.060 |
| FreeSolv | RMSE | 1.070 ± 0.065 |
| Lipophilicity | RMSE | 0.624 ± 0.049 |
| PDBbind | RMSE | 1.310 ± 0.040 |
Usage
Browse a downstream task in the viewer
from datasets import load_dataset
bbbp = load_dataset("HUBioDataLab/SELFormerMM", "bbbp")
The named configs above expose the nine task CSVs. The embedding arrays are not part of these
configs — datasets cannot align .npz files row-wise — so download them directly.
Load a task with all four modalities
import numpy as np, pandas as pd
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
REPO = "HUBioDataLab/SELFormerMM"
meta = hf_hub_download(REPO, "finetuning_datasets/classification/bbbp/bbbp.csv", repo_type="dataset")
embs = hf_hub_download(REPO, "finetuning_datasets/classification/bbbp/bbbp_embs.npz", repo_type="dataset")
df = pd.read_csv(meta)
z = np.load(embs)
graph, text, kg = z["graph"], z["text"], z["kg"]
assert len(df) == len(graph) == len(text) == len(kg) # row-aligned
has_kg = np.linalg.norm(kg, axis=1) != 0 # zero vector == modality missing
Fine-tune from the pretrained backbone
huggingface-cli download HUBioDataLab/SELFormerMM --repo-type dataset \
--include "models/SELFormerMM/*" "finetuning_datasets/classification/bbbp/*" --local-dir ./selformermm
python train_finetuning.py \
--model_path ./selformermm/models/SELFormerMM \
--dataset_meta_csv ./selformermm/finetuning_datasets/classification/bbbp/bbbp.csv \
--dataset_embs_npz ./selformermm/finetuning_datasets/classification/bbbp/bbbp_embs.npz \
--task_type binary --label_column p_np --num_labels 1 \
--use_scaffold 1 --epochs 50 --backbone_lr 1e-5 --head_lr 1e-4 \
--save_dir ./runs/bbbp
Predict with a released fine-tuned checkpoint
python predict.py \
--model_dir ./selformermm/models/finetuned/bbbp \
--input_meta_csv ./selformermm/finetuning_datasets/classification/bbbp/bbbp.csv \
--input_embs_npz ./selformermm/finetuning_datasets/classification/bbbp/bbbp_embs.npz \
--task_type binary --num_labels 1 --label_column p_np \
--output_csv ./bbbp_predictions.csv
Pretrain on your own corpus
Supply a SELFIES CSV plus a .npy per modality with identical row ordering; substitute a
zero matrix of the right shape for any modality you do not have. See train_pretraining.py and the
generate_*_embeddings.py scripts in the code repository.
Citation
If you use this data, please cite:
@article{ulusoy2026selformermm,
title = {SELFormerMM: multimodal molecular representation learning via SELFIES,
structure, text, and knowledge graph integration},
author = {Ulusoy, Erva and Bostanc{\i}, {\c{S}}evval and Deniz, Bora Engin and Do{\u{g}}an, Tunca},
journal = {Bioinformatics},
volume = {42},
number = {Supplement\_2},
pages = {btag451},
year = {2026},
doi = {10.1093/bioinformatics/btag451}
}
License
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Data redistributed here remains subject to the terms of its original sources (ChEMBL, M3-20M, CROssBARv2, MoleculeNet, PDBbind).
Contact
HU Biological Data Science Lab — open an issue on the code repository.