Marwin Segler

@marwinsegler.bsky.social

Machine Learning, {Org, Med, Comp} Chem, RL/Planning, AI-assisted Scientific Discovery & Creativity, Music. ELLIS Scholar. Team Lead at Microsoft Research AI for Science. 2xDad

Language Models bring new capabilities to Chemistry, especially when dealing with both structures and rich natural language, ie in synthesis. For this, we now report our new Reasoning model for Synthesis Procedure generation, with dedicated SFT on COT and RLVR for the task. 1/2

A Scientific Reasoning Model for Organic Synthesis Procedure Generation

Solving computer-aided synthesis planning is essential for enabling fully automated, robot-assisted synthesis workflows and improving the efficiency of drug discovery. A key challenge, however, is bri...

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Do you want to invent the future of Chemistry with us? We‘re looking for a "Digital Native” Organic Chemist to join our team at Microsoft Research AI for Science. We offer an amazing environment where you can do deep research with passionate and talented colleagues to solve problems that matter! 1/2

Do you want to invent the future of Chemistry with us? We‘re looking for a "Digital Native” Organic Chemist to join our team at Microsoft Research AI for Science. We offer an amazing environment where you can do deep research with passionate and talented colleagues to solve problems that matter! 1/2

New work from my team! arxiv.org/abs/2507.12950 Intersecting mechanistic interpretability and health AI 😎 We trained and interpreted sparse autoencoders on MAIRA-2, our radiology MLLM. We found a range of human-interpretable radiology reporting concepts, but also many uninterpretable SAE features.

Insights into a radiology-specialised multimodal large language model with sparse autoencoders

Interpretability can improve the safety, transparency and trust of AI models, which is especially important in healthcare applications where decisions often carry significant consequences. Mechanistic...

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🚀 After two+ years of intense research, we’re thrilled to introduce Skala — a scalable deep learning density functional that hits chemical accuracy on atomization energies and matches hybrid-level accuracy on main group chemistry — all at the cost of semi-local DFT ⚛️🔥🧪🧬

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As chemical data grows, turning names into machine-readable structures is key for discovery, automation, and data integration. OPSIN – now hosted at EMBL-EBI – helps solve this by converting IUPAC names into chemical structures and other machine-readable formats. www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u...

OPSIN chemical name-to-structure tool moves to EMBL-EBI

The Open Parser for Systematic IUPAC Nomenclature (OPSIN) allows users to convert chemical names into structures and machine-readable formats.

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🎉The Phi-4 reasoning models have landed on HF and Azure AI Foundry. The new models are competitive and often outperform much larger frontier models. It is exciting to see the reasoning capabilities extend to more domains beyond math, including algorithmic reasoning, calendar planning, and coding.

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