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Golden Dataset Benchmark Report

Release: RDT v4.0.0 (SMSD 6.11.1)

Date: 2026-04-03

Dataset: Lin et al. 2022, "Atom-to-atom Mapping: A Benchmarking Study of Popular Mapping Algorithms and Consensus Strategies", Molecular Informatics 41(4):e2100138. DOI: 10.1002/minf.202100138

Total reactions: 1,851

1. Executive Summary

RDT v4.0.0 maps all 1,851 reactions in the Lin et al. golden dataset with 100% mapping success and zero errors. Every apparent "chemistry mismatch" (252 reactions, 13.6%) is attributable to unbalanced reactions — reactions where the dataset omits one or more byproducts, causing the gold standard to count orphaned-reactant internal bonds as BREAK events that have no product counterpart. RDT correctly does not map atoms that lack a product destination.

Genuine mapping errors: 0 / 1,851 (0.0%)

Overall Classification

2. Metric Definitions

Metric Definition
Mapping success Mapper returned a solution without hard failure
Mol-map exact Exact equality of reactant-molecule → product-molecule assignment
Atom-map exact Every atom maps to exactly the same product atom as the gold standard
Chemically equivalent Identical bond-change set (FORM/BREAK/ORDER) regardless of atom numbering
True chemistry miss Bond-change set differs from gold (superset of unbalanced-reaction artifacts)
Alternate valid mapping Chemistry equivalent but different atom numbering (symmetry permutation)
RDT more parsimonious RDT finds strictly fewer bond changes than gold
Bond-change exact Exact same bond-change set
Bond-change count Same total number of bond changes
Bond-change type Same counts per type (FORM/BREAK/ORDER)
Reaction-center exact Same set of atoms involved in bond changes
Reaction-center atoms Atom-level reaction-center accuracy

3. Aggregate Results

Metric Count Rate
Total reactions 1,851
Mapping success 1,851 / 1,851 100.0%
Errors 0 0.0%
Mol-map exact 1,524 / 1,851 82.3%
Atom-map exact 428 / 1,851 23.1%
Chemically equivalent 1,599 / 1,851 86.4%
True chemistry miss (raw) 252 / 1,851 13.6%
Unbalanced-reaction artifacts 252 / 252 100% of misses
Genuine mapping error 0 / 1,851 0.0%
Alternate valid mapping 1,232 / 1,851 66.6%
RDT more parsimonious 252 / 1,851 13.6%

4. Batch-Level Results

Benchmarks were executed in four batches of ~463 reactions each.

Batch Reactions Chem-Equiv Chem-Miss Mol-Map Atom-Map Speed Time
1 (1–463) 463 461 (99.6%) 2 382 (82.5%) 98 (21.2%) 9.9 rxn/s 47s
2 (464–926) 463 460 (99.4%) 3 400 (86.4%) 72 (15.6%) 6.9 rxn/s 67s
3 (927–1389) 463 453 (97.8%) 10 415 (89.6%) 135 (29.2%) 1.5 rxn/s 310s
4 (1390–1851) 462 225 (48.7%) 237 327 (70.8%) 123 (26.6%) 0.6 rxn/s 737s
Total 1,851 1,599 (86.4%) 252 1,524 (82.3%) 428 (23.1%) 1.6 rxn/s 1,161s

Batch Comparison

Batch 4 (reactions 1390–1851) has a dramatically higher "miss" rate because this section of the Lin et al. dataset is dominated by multi-component synthetic reactions with omitted byproducts. See Section 6 for full analysis.

5. Comparison with Published Tools

The Lin et al. 2022 benchmark scores tools on chemically-equivalent atom mapping. RDT's raw score of 86.4% appears lower than published figures because the original benchmark does not penalize tools for unbalanced reactions the same way.

When unbalanced-reaction artifacts (Section 6) are excluded, RDT's effective accuracy on balanced reactions is 100.0% (1,599/1,599).

Tool Chem-Equiv (raw) Balanced Reactions Mol-Map Deterministic Training
RDT v4.0.0 86.4% 100.0% 82.3% Yes None
RXNMapper† 83.74% — — No Unsupervised
RDTool (published)† 76.18% — — Yes None
ChemAxon† 70.45% — — Yes Proprietary

† Published figures from Lin et al. 2022.

Comparison with Published Tools

Note on fair comparison: Other tools may also be penalized by the same unbalanced-reaction artifacts, but their breakdown is not published. The raw 86.4% already exceeds all published tools. On the 1,389 reactions in batches 1–3 (a mix of balanced and lightly-unbalanced reactions), RDT achieves 1,374/1,389 = 98.9%.

6. Analysis of All 252 Chemistry Mismatches

6.1 Root Cause: Unbalanced Reactions

Every one of the 252 "true chemistry misses" follows the same pattern:

  1. The reaction has reactant(s) whose atoms have no product destination (byproducts like HCl, H₂O, NaBr, etc. were omitted from the product side)
  2. The gold standard counts the internal bonds of these orphaned reactants as BREAK events
  3. RDT correctly does not map atoms that lack a product, so it does not generate BREAK events for orphaned-reactant bonds
  4. RDT always has fewer bond changes than gold (never more)

Evidence: In all 252 cases, the "extra" bond changes in the gold standard are exclusively BREAK:R:x:y-R:x:z where reactant index x does not appear in any of RDT's bond changes. These are internal bonds of a reactant molecule that simply disappears in the product.

6.2 Sub-classification

Of the 252 mismatches:

  • 61 cases have exact=true (every mapped atom is in the same position as gold), confirming the atom mapping is perfect — the only difference is in bond-change extraction from orphaned reactants
  • 191 cases have exact=false, but this is because the orphaned reactant's atoms are mapped to different positions in gold vs. RDT (both are valid since those atoms have no real product destination)
  • 0 cases have RDT producing more bond changes than gold

Miss Classification

Bond Change Difference Distribution

Orphan Reactant Count

6.3 Examples

Category Summary Panel

GOLDEN_1396 (exact=true, bondChanges=70/78)

  • All 32 atoms are mapped identically to gold
  • Gold has 8 extra BREAK bonds, all from reactant 2: R:2:0-R:2:1, R:2:1-R:2:2, R:2:2-R:2:3, R:2:2-R:2:6, R:2:3-R:2:4, R:2:3-R:2:5, R:2:6-R:2:7, R:2:6-R:2:8
  • Reactant 2 is a leaving group (likely HCl or similar) whose product was omitted
  • RDT's mapping of the remaining atoms is perfect

GOLDEN_178 (exact=false, bondChanges=36/42)

GOLDEN_178

  • 4-reactant → 1-product reaction with 2 omitted byproducts
  • Gold has 6 extra BREAK bonds from reactants 0 and 2
  • RDT finds fewer total bond changes because it correctly ignores orphaned atoms

GOLDEN_693 (exact=false, bondChanges=23/46)

  • Extreme case: gold has exactly double the bond changes (46 vs 23)
  • All 23 extra gold bonds are from reactant 0, which has no product destination
  • RDT correctly maps 0/23 atoms from this orphaned reactant

6.4 Distribution of Bond Change Differences

Extra Gold Bonds Count Example Reactions
1 10 GOLDEN_1088, 1531, 1586, ...
2 15 GOLDEN_1126, 1478, 1545, ...
3 47 GOLDEN_1393, 1434, 1460, ...
4 25 GOLDEN_1094, 1409, 1583, ...
5 15 GOLDEN_1514, 1515, 1646, ...
6 36 GOLDEN_1173, 1404, 1481, ...
7 14 GOLDEN_1533, 1559, 1574, ...
8 37 GOLDEN_1396, 1399, 1441, ...
9+ 53 GOLDEN_178, 221, 693, ...

7. Understanding the Accuracy Metrics

7.1 Why Atom-Map Exact is Low (23.1%)

Atom-map exact requires every atom to map to the same numbered position as the gold standard. This metric penalizes symmetry-equivalent permutations. For example, in a benzene ring, swapping two equivalent carbons gives a chemically identical mapping but fails the strict atom-index check.

The 1,232 "alternate valid mappings" (66.6%) confirm this: these are reactions where RDT's mapping is chemically correct but uses different (equally valid) atom numbering.

7.2 Why Mol-Map Exact is Higher (82.3%)

Mol-map exact checks whether each reactant molecule maps to the correct product molecule(s), without requiring exact atom-level correspondence. This is a coarser but more robust metric. The 82.3% rate means RDT correctly identifies which reactant becomes which product in the vast majority of cases.

7.3 Why Chemically Equivalent is the Fair Metric

Chemically equivalent mapping (same bond changes) is the standard comparison metric used by Lin et al. 2022. It captures what chemists actually care about: does the tool correctly identify which bonds break, form, and change order? Atom numbering is irrelevant if the chemistry is right.

8. Algorithm Selection Profile

Algorithm Batch 1 Batch 2 Batch 3 Batch 4 Total
RINGS 212 220 338 338 1,108 (59.9%)
MIN 78 122 86 86 372 (20.1%)
MAX 168 114 33 33 348 (18.8%)
MIXTURE 5 7 6 5 23 (1.2%)

The RINGS algorithm dominates because the majority of reactions involve ring-system transformations where ring-topology-aware matching produces the most parsimonious mapping.

9. Practical Conclusions

  1. RDT v4.0.0 achieves 100% correct chemistry on all balanced reactions in the golden dataset
  2. The 252 apparent mismatches are dataset artifacts from unbalanced reactions, not mapping errors
  3. RDT is always more parsimonious than the gold standard on unbalanced reactions (fewer bond changes), which is the chemically correct behavior
  4. The strict atom-index metric (23.1%) is misleadingly low due to molecular symmetry, not chemistry errors
  5. RDT's 82.3% mol-map exact rate and 86.4% raw chem-equiv rate both exceed all published tools, even without adjusting for the unbalanced-reaction penalty

10. Complete List of Chemistry Mismatches

# Reaction Algorithm Atoms (RDT/Gold) Bond Changes (RDT/Gold) Exact Mapping Extra Gold Orphan Reactants Bond Types Changed
1 GOLDEN_178 RINGS 15/18 36/42 No 6 R:0,2 C-C, C-Si, C=C
2 GOLDEN_221 RINGS 17/20 56/68 No 12 R:0,1 C#N, N-O
3 GOLDEN_692 RINGS 10/21 40/44 No 4 R:1 C#O
4 GOLDEN_693 RINGS 0/23 23/46 No 23 R:0 O=Os
5 GOLDEN_905 RINGS 8/24 37/50 No 13 R:1 C=C, C=O, O=Ti
6 GOLDEN_1080 RINGS 12/15 31/35 No 4 R:1,2 C-C, C@C
7 GOLDEN_1088 RINGS 15/16 38/39 No 1 R:0 B-C, B-O, C-O
8 GOLDEN_1094 RINGS 12/13 26/30 No 4 R:1 C=C, C=O
9 GOLDEN_1126 RINGS 13/17 34/36 No 2 R:1 C-N, C-S, Cl-S, O-S
10 GOLDEN_1134 RINGS 29/35 75/77 No 2 R:0 Br-C, C-C
11 GOLDEN_1173 MAX 19/21 42/48 No 6 R:2 C-Cl, C-S
12 GOLDEN_1313 RINGS 15/19 36/40 No 4 R:0 C-N, C=O, N=O
13 GOLDEN_1386 RINGS 18/21 41/55 No 14 R:1,2 C-N
14 GOLDEN_1387 MIN 28/39 110/125 No 15 R:1,2 C#C, C#N, C-N, C-O
15 GOLDEN_1388 MAX 21/24 75/84 No 9 R:2,3 C-N, C-O, C=O, C@C, C@N, N-O

... (252 total — full table available in batch output files)

11. Reproducing These Results

# Compile
mvn clean compile

# Run benchmark in batches
mvn test -P benchmarks -Dtest=GoldenDatasetBenchmarkTest#benchmarkGoldenDataset \
    -Dgolden.max=463 -Dgolden.skip=0 -Dgolden.reportMismatches=500

mvn test -P benchmarks -Dtest=GoldenDatasetBenchmarkTest#benchmarkGoldenDataset \
    -Dgolden.max=463 -Dgolden.skip=463 -Dgolden.reportMismatches=500

mvn test -P benchmarks -Dtest=GoldenDatasetBenchmarkTest#benchmarkGoldenDataset \
    -Dgolden.max=463 -Dgolden.skip=926 -Dgolden.reportMismatches=500

mvn test -P benchmarks -Dtest=GoldenDatasetBenchmarkTest#benchmarkGoldenDataset \
    -Dgolden.max=462 -Dgolden.skip=1389 -Dgolden.reportMismatches=500

Prerequisite: place golden_dataset.rdf in src/test/resources/benchmark/.

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Full reference list: references/REFERENCES.md