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Simulation-to-real transfer learning for infrared spectroscopic chemical sensing and analysis from molecules to complex samples

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TL;DR - UltraIR is a 100M+ parameter foundation model pretrained on roughly 60 million simulated infrared spectra, then adapted to diverse chemical-analysis tasks. It enables data-efficient simulation-to-real transfer and cross-instrument zero-shot inference.

  • Pretraining combines spectral reconstruction, molecular-fingerprint alignment, and functional-group prediction.
  • Applications span molecular analysis, mixtures, bacteria, medicinal herbs, microplastics, and soil properties.
  • UltraIR outperforms conventional machine-learning and task-specific deep-learning baselines across the reported tasks.
  • It remains effective with limited labeled experimental data and transfers across spectrometers and laboratories.

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Simulation-to-real transfer learning for infrared spectroscopic chemical sensing and analysis from molecules to complex samples

arXiv cs.LG Yusen Tan, Yixuan Chen, Zheng Fang, Pan Liu, Yifan Li, Qinyu Guo, Zhedong Lin, Yuqiang Li, Xiangxiang Zeng, Tong Wang, Jun Xia 2026-08-13 arXiv:2608.13341
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TL;DR - UltraIR is a 100M+ parameter foundation model pretrained on roughly 60 million simulated infrared spectra, then adapted to diverse chemical-analysis tasks. It enables data-efficient simulation-to-real transfer and cross-instrument zero-shot inference.

  • Pretraining combines spectral reconstruction, molecular-fingerprint alignment, and functional-group prediction.
  • Applications span molecular analysis, mixtures, bacteria, medicinal herbs, microplastics, and soil properties.
  • UltraIR outperforms conventional machine-learning and task-specific deep-learning baselines across the reported tasks.
  • It remains effective with limited labeled experimental data and transfers across spectrometers and laboratories.
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