Evaluation

Overview

The LlaSMol evaluation pipeline consists of three main steps:

Generation: Generate predictions on test datasets
Extraction: Extract and format predictions from model outputs
Metrics: Compute task-specific evaluation metrics

Evaluation Pipeline

1. Generate Predictions

Use generate_on_dataset.py to generate predictions for a specific task.

python generate_on_dataset.py \
  --model_name="osunlp/LlaSMol-Mistral-7B" \
  --data_path="osunlp/SMolInstruct" \
  --split="test" \
  --tasks="name_conversion-i2s" \
  --output_dir="./eval" \
  --batch_size=1

Parameters

model_name

string

required

Name or path of the fine-tuned LlaSMol model.

base_model

string

default:"None"

Base model architecture. Auto-detected from model_name if not specified.

data_path

string

default:"osunlp/SMolInstruct"

Dataset to evaluate on (Hugging Face dataset or local path).

split

string

default:"test[:2]"

Dataset split to evaluate. Use slice notation (e.g., test[:100]) to evaluate on a subset.

tasks

list[string]

default:"None"

Tasks to evaluate. If None, evaluates on all available tasks.

output_dir

string

default:"eval"

Directory where prediction files will be saved (one .jsonl file per task).

batch_size

int

default:"1"

Number of samples to process in parallel.

max_input_tokens

int

default:"None"

Maximum input token length. Uses task-specific or default settings if None.

max_new_tokens

int

default:"None"

Maximum tokens to generate. Uses task-specific or default settings if None.

print_out

bool

default:"False"

Whether to print predictions during generation.

device

string

default:"None"

Device to run on (cuda or cpu). Auto-detected if None.

**generation_kargs

dict

Additional generation parameters (e.g., num_beams, num_return_sequences).

Output Format

Generates .jsonl files in the output directory, one per task:

{
  "input": "Convert IUPAC name to SMILES: benzene",
  "gold": "c1ccccc1",
  "output": ["c1ccccc1"],
  "task": "name_conversion-i2s",
  "split": "test",
  "target": null,
  "input_text": "Convert IUPAC name to SMILES: benzene",
  "real_input_text": "[INST] Convert IUPAC name to SMILES: benzene [/INST]"
}

2. Extract Predictions

Use extract_prediction.py to extract predictions from generation outputs.

python extract_prediction.py \
  --output_dir="./eval" \
  --prediction_dir="./pred" \
  --tasks="name_conversion-i2s"

Parameters

output_dir

string

default:"eval"

Directory containing generation outputs from step 1.

prediction_dir

string

default:"pred"

Directory where extracted predictions will be saved.

tasks

list[string] | string

default:"None"

Tasks to process. If None, processes all tasks found in output_dir.

Functionality

The extraction script:

Reads generation outputs from output_dir
Extracts predictions based on task-specific tags (if configured)
Saves formatted predictions to prediction_dir
Handles multiple prediction sequences per input

Output Format

Creates .jsonl files in prediction_dir:

{
  "input": "Convert IUPAC name to SMILES: benzene",
  "gold": "c1ccccc1",
  "pred": ["c1ccccc1"],
  "task": "name_conversion-i2s",
  "split": "test",
  "target": null
}

3. Compute Metrics

Use compute_metrics.py to calculate evaluation metrics.

python compute_metrics.py \
  --prediction_dir="./pred" \
  --tasks="name_conversion-i2s"

Parameters

prediction_dir

string

default:"pred"

Directory containing prediction files from step 2.

tasks

list[string]

default:"all tasks from config.TASKS"

Tasks to compute metrics for.

Task-Specific Metrics

Different tasks use different evaluation metrics: SMILES Tasks (forward_synthesis, molecule_generation, name_conversion-i2s):

Exact Match
Validity
Fingerprint Similarity (Tanimoto)
MACCS FTS
RDK FTS
Morgan FTS

Retrosynthesis:

Exact Match
Fingerprint Similarity
Multiple Match (top-k accuracy)

Text Tasks (molecule_captioning):

BLEU-2, BLEU-4
ROUGE-1, ROUGE-2, ROUGE-L
METEOR

Formula Tasks (name_conversion-i2f, name_conversion-s2f):

Element Match: Compares molecular formulas element-by-element

IUPAC Name Tasks (name_conversion-s2i):

Split Match: Tokenized comparison of IUPAC names

Numerical Property Prediction (property_prediction-esol, property_prediction-lipo):

MAE (Mean Absolute Error)
RMSE (Root Mean Square Error)

Boolean Property Prediction (property_prediction-bbbp, property_prediction-clintox, property_prediction-hiv, property_prediction-sider):

Accuracy
Precision
Recall
F1 Score

Output Format

Prints metrics to console:

===== name_conversion-i2s =====
Altogether 1000 samples.
exact_match:  0.8523
validity:     0.9876
maccs_fts:    0.8912
rdk_fts:      0.8745
morgan_fts:   0.8834

Supported Tasks

The following chemistry tasks are supported:

Forward Synthesis

Predict reaction products from reactants

Retrosynthesis

Predict reactants from products

Molecule Captioning

Generate text descriptions of molecules

Molecule Generation

Generate SMILES from text descriptions

IUPAC to Formula

Convert IUPAC names to molecular formulas

IUPAC to SMILES

Convert IUPAC names to SMILES

SMILES to Formula

Convert SMILES to molecular formulas

SMILES to IUPAC

Convert SMILES to IUPAC names

Property Prediction

Predict molecular properties (ESOL, LIPO, BBBP, etc.)

Task Configuration

Task-specific generation settings are defined in config.py:

TASKS_GENERATION_SETTINGS = {
    "name_conversion-i2s": {
        "generation_kargs": {"num_return_sequences": 5, "num_beams": 8}
    },
    "forward_synthesis": {
        "generation_kargs": {"num_return_sequences": 5, "num_beams": 8}
    },
    "retrosynthesis": {
        "max_new_tokens": 960,
        "generation_kargs": {"num_return_sequences": 10, "num_beams": 13}
    },
    ...
}

Complete Evaluation Workflow

Example: Evaluate on Name Conversion

# Step 1: Generate predictions
python generate_on_dataset.py \
  --model_name="osunlp/LlaSMol-Mistral-7B" \
  --tasks="name_conversion-i2s" \
  --split="test" \
  --output_dir="./eval"

# Step 2: Extract predictions
python extract_prediction.py \
  --output_dir="./eval" \
  --prediction_dir="./pred" \
  --tasks="name_conversion-i2s"

# Step 3: Compute metrics
python compute_metrics.py \
  --prediction_dir="./pred" \
  --tasks="name_conversion-i2s"

Example: Evaluate All Tasks

# Generate for all tasks
python generate_on_dataset.py \
  --model_name="osunlp/LlaSMol-Mistral-7B" \
  --split="test" \
  --output_dir="./eval"

# Extract all predictions
python extract_prediction.py \
  --output_dir="./eval" \
  --prediction_dir="./pred"

# Compute all metrics
python compute_metrics.py \
  --prediction_dir="./pred"

Example: Evaluate with Custom Settings

python generate_on_dataset.py \
  --model_name="osunlp/LlaSMol-Mistral-7B" \
  --tasks="forward_synthesis" \
  --split="test" \
  --output_dir="./eval" \
  --batch_size=8 \
  --num_beams=10 \
  --num_return_sequences=5

Programmatic Usage

Generate Function

from generate_on_dataset import generate
from generation import LlaSMolGeneration

generator = LlaSMolGeneration("osunlp/LlaSMol-Mistral-7B")

generate(
    generator=generator,
    data_path="osunlp/SMolInstruct",
    split="test",
    task="name_conversion-i2s",
    output_file="./eval/name_conversion-i2s.jsonl",
    batch_size=1,
    print_out=True
)

Extract Predictions

from extract_prediction import extract_prediction

extract_prediction(
    output_file="./eval/name_conversion-i2s.jsonl",
    prediction_file="./pred/name_conversion-i2s.jsonl",
    task="name_conversion-i2s"
)

Compute Metrics

from compute_metrics import read_result
from utils.metrics import calculate_smiles_metrics

pred_list, gold_list = read_result(
    prediction_dir="./pred",
    task="name_conversion-i2s",
    replace_semicolon=True
)

metrics = calculate_smiles_metrics(pred_list, gold_list)
print(metrics)

Metrics Utilities

The utils/metrics.py module provides metric calculation functions:

calculate_smiles_metrics(): SMILES validity, exact match, fingerprint similarity
calculate_text_metrics(): BLEU, ROUGE, METEOR for text generation
calculate_formula_metrics(): Element matching for molecular formulas
calculate_number_metrics(): MAE, RMSE for numerical predictions
calculate_boolean_metrics(): Accuracy, precision, recall, F1 for binary classification

File Locations

LLM4Chem/generate_on_dataset.py: Dataset generation script
LLM4Chem/extract_prediction.py: Prediction extraction script
LLM4Chem/compute_metrics.py: Metrics computation script
LLM4Chem/config.py: Task configurations
LLM4Chem/utils/metrics.py: Metric calculation functions

The evaluation pipeline automatically handles task-specific settings from config.py, including generation parameters and metric selection.

When evaluating on large datasets, consider using batch processing and distributing generation across multiple GPUs to reduce evaluation time.

Agent API

Chemistry Tools

PubChem RAG

LlaSMol

Overview

Evaluation Pipeline

1. Generate Predictions

Parameters

Output Format

2. Extract Predictions

Parameters

Functionality

Output Format

3. Compute Metrics

Parameters

Task-Specific Metrics

Output Format

Supported Tasks

Forward Synthesis

Retrosynthesis

Molecule Captioning

Molecule Generation

IUPAC to Formula

IUPAC to SMILES

SMILES to Formula

SMILES to IUPAC

Property Prediction

Task Configuration

Complete Evaluation Workflow

Example: Evaluate on Name Conversion

Example: Evaluate All Tasks

Example: Evaluate with Custom Settings

Programmatic Usage

Generate Function

Extract Predictions

Compute Metrics

Metrics Utilities

File Locations

Build docs developers (and LLMs) love

Agent API

Chemistry Tools

PubChem RAG

LlaSMol

Documentation Index

​Overview

​Evaluation Pipeline

​1. Generate Predictions

​Parameters

​Output Format

​2. Extract Predictions

​Parameters

​Functionality

​Output Format

​3. Compute Metrics

​Parameters

​Task-Specific Metrics

​Output Format

​Supported Tasks

Forward Synthesis

Retrosynthesis

Molecule Captioning

Molecule Generation

IUPAC to Formula

IUPAC to SMILES

SMILES to Formula

SMILES to IUPAC

Property Prediction

​Task Configuration

​Complete Evaluation Workflow

​Example: Evaluate on Name Conversion

​Example: Evaluate All Tasks

​Example: Evaluate with Custom Settings

​Programmatic Usage

​Generate Function

​Extract Predictions

​Compute Metrics

​Metrics Utilities

​File Locations

Build docs developers (and LLMs) love

Overview

Evaluation Pipeline

1. Generate Predictions

Parameters

Output Format

2. Extract Predictions

Parameters

Functionality

Output Format

3. Compute Metrics

Parameters

Task-Specific Metrics

Output Format

Supported Tasks

Task Configuration

Complete Evaluation Workflow

Example: Evaluate on Name Conversion

Example: Evaluate All Tasks

Example: Evaluate with Custom Settings

Programmatic Usage

Generate Function

Extract Predictions

Compute Metrics

Metrics Utilities

File Locations