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An Agentic Retrobiosynthesis Framework with Learned Frontier Selection

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 31, 2026 · UTC

Large language models are increasingly used as agents for multistep retrosynthesis, raising the question of how much their search policy contributes independently of the underlying reaction model. We investigate this question in a biological setting through rule-based retrobiosynthesis: a deterministic biochemical engine generates the same validated transitions for every method, searching for routes that terminate in metabolites available to an \emph{Escherichia coli} chassis, while the policy only selects which frontier molecule to expand next. Prompted and LoRA-tuned Qwen2.5-7B policies use

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