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SFMMoE: A Semi-Empirical Descriptor-Augmented Multi-Expert Graph Neural Network for Accurate Prediction of Singlet
Jihang Zhai1, Danyang Xiong1, Yueqing Zhang1
1Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug Development, Shanghai Frontiers Science Center of Molecule Intelligent Syntheses, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200062, China.
Abstract:
Efficient identification of singlet fission (SF) candidates remains a significant challenge in the development of high-performance organic photovoltaic materials due to the high computational cost of accurately evaluating excited-state energetics. Here, we present SFMMoE, a graph neural network (GNN) that integrates a multiexpert multigating (MMoE) architecture with 2-HOP message passing. By integrating local topological information from molecular graphs with global molecular descriptors derived from semiempirical methods, SFMMoE enables simultaneous prediction of five key excited-state properties, including two thermodynamic criteria critical to SF: ΔEgap1 = ΔES1 - 2ΔET1 and ΔEgap2 = ΔET2 - 2ΔET1. The model achieves a mean square error below 0.04 eV across all tasks, outperforming traditional machine learning and testing of GNN baselines. This work demonstrates that integrating multitask learning with expert specialization and graph-descriptor feature fusion substantially improves the prediction accuracy of excited-state energetics, enabling large-scale, low-cost virtual screening of SF materials with quantum-chemical accuracy. To facilitate broader access, a freely available and user-friendly online prediction server is provided at http://tech.iawnix.xyz/SFMMoE.
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