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EnSol: an environment-aware graph neural network for molecular solubility prediction

Researchers introduced EnSol, an environment-aware probabilistic graph neural network for molecular solubility prediction, which achieved Spearman correlations of 0.876 on the SolProp benchmark and 0.601 on the Leeds benchmark, outperforming state-of-the-art solubility prediction models on both. EnSol represents solute and solvent as separate molecular graphs combined through cross-attention, incorporates temperature via feature-wise modulation of the solvent environment, and uses a mixture density network to predict full solubility distributions that capture experimental uncertainty. In experimental validation across chemically diverse solute-solvent pairs, EnSol maintained strong predictive performance and supported reliable solvent ranking with a Spearman correlation of 0.715.

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arXiv:2609.21151v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Molecular solubility directly affects key aspects of molecular development such as reaction feasibility, formulation performance, separation efficiency, and solvent selection. However, experimental measurement across solutes, solvents, and temperatures remains costly and sparsely sampled. Existing computational models often rely on fixed-solvent assumptions, deterministic formulations, or simplified representations of solute-solvent interactions, limiting their ability to capture complex molecular interactions, continuous temperature effects, and experimental uncertainty. Here, we introduce EnSol, an environment-aware probabilistic framework for molecular solubility prediction. EnSol represents the solute and solvent as molecular graphs and learns separate representations for each before bringing them together through cross-attention to capture solute-solvent interactions. Temperature is incorporated directly into the solvent environment through feature-wise modulation, and a mixture density network predicts full solubility distributions to capture both temperature-dependent behavior and experimental uncertainty. On the independent SolProp and Leeds benchmark datasets, EnSol achieved Spearman correlations of 0.876 and 0.601, respectively, outperforming state-of-the-art solubility prediction models across both benchmarks. Beyond computational benchmarking, experimental validation across chemically diverse solute-solvent pairs showed that EnSol maintained strong predictive performance and supported reliable solvent ranking, achieving a Spearman correlation of 0.715. These results show that EnSol can support reliable solubility prediction and solvent selection across diverse chemical systems while accounting for predictive uncertainty.

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