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MetaboLLM: a metabolomics-specialized large language model for biochemical knowledge integration and predictive metabolite graph construction

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TL;DR - MetaboLLM is a metabolomics-specialized LLM (continual pretraining + SFT + structured retrieval) paired with MetaboLLM-GIN, which turns generated biochemical descriptions into metabolite graphs for patient-level clinical prediction. It shows domain adaptation can convert scattered biochemical knowledge into predictive, interpretable graph representations.

  • Adaptation pipeline combines continual pretraining, supervised fine-tuning, and structured retrieval; evaluated across four backbone model families, beating both base and medically adapted counterparts on metabolomics knowledge, relational, and description tasks, with transfer to an external public benchmark.
  • MetaboLLM-GIN converts LLM-generated descriptions into metabolite graphs consumed by a graph isomorphism network for patient-level prediction.
  • Clinical results: AUC 0.8616 for stress hyperglycemia after coronary artery bypass grafting and 0.8123 for postmenopausal hormone-regimen classification, ahead of conventional models, alternative graph constructions, and graphs from unadapted or non-retrieval LLM configurations.
  • Ablations implicate both domain adaptation and retrieval as necessary; model interpretation reportedly yielded biologically meaningful findings in both applications.

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MetaboLLM: a metabolomics-specialized large language model for biochemical knowledge integration and predictive metabolite graph construction

arXiv cs.LG Dohyun Ku, Min Gu Kwak, Francisco J. Pasquel, Jing Li 2026-08-06 arXiv:2608.06253
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TL;DR - MetaboLLM is a metabolomics-specialized LLM (continual pretraining + SFT + structured retrieval) paired with MetaboLLM-GIN, which turns generated biochemical descriptions into metabolite graphs for patient-level clinical prediction. It shows domain adaptation can convert scattered biochemical knowledge into predictive, interpretable graph representations.

  • Adaptation pipeline combines continual pretraining, supervised fine-tuning, and structured retrieval; evaluated across four backbone model families, beating both base and medically adapted counterparts on metabolomics knowledge, relational, and description tasks, with transfer to an external public benchmark.
  • MetaboLLM-GIN converts LLM-generated descriptions into metabolite graphs consumed by a graph isomorphism network for patient-level prediction.
  • Clinical results: AUC 0.8616 for stress hyperglycemia after coronary artery bypass grafting and 0.8123 for postmenopausal hormone-regimen classification, ahead of conventional models, alternative graph constructions, and graphs from unadapted or non-retrieval LLM configurations.
  • Ablations implicate both domain adaptation and retrieval as necessary; model interpretation reportedly yielded biologically meaningful findings in both applications.
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