An open benchmark for machine learning-based polymer property prediction
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arXiv:2609.27036v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Polymer property prediction lacks open, standardized benchmarks that enable rigorous comparison of machine-learning methods, with existing resources covering only a narrow fraction of polymer architectures, such as homopolymers. We introduce Polymer Benchmark 2026 (PolyBench26), an open dataset comprising nearly 250,000 polymer-property datapoints across eight physical properties, including data from experimental measurements, density functional theory, and molecular dynamics. The benchmark supports four evaluation tasks across homopolymers and
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- arXiv:2609.27036v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Polymer property prediction lacks open, standardized benchmarks that enable rigorous comparison of machine-learning methods, with existing resources covering only a narrow fraction of polymer architectures, such as homopolymers.
- We introduce Polymer Benchmark 2026 (PolyBench26), an open dataset comprising nearly 250,000 polymer-property datapoints across eight physical properties, including data from experimental measurements, density functional theory, and molecular dynamics.
- The benchmark supports four evaluation tasks across homopolymers and
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