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  "abstract": "Polymer informatics currently lacks shared benchmarks that enable reproducible comparison of property prediction methods across datasets, representations, and models. Here, we present PolyBench, a public benchmark platform comprising 39 literature-derived prediction tasks with 42,169 curated structure–property records covering 14,717 distinct repeat-unit structures, seven repeat-unit molecular representation types (five fingerprint families, physicochemical descriptors, and task-trained graph embeddings), 30 supervised baseline models (22 traditional machine-learning and 8 deep-learning methods), fixed train/test splits, and an interactive leaderboard. Across more than 10,000 supervised model evaluations spanning all 39 tasks, physicochemical descriptor-based tree ensembles emerge as strong baselines under the PolyBench protocol, though no single method achieves consistent superiority across all properties; matched repeated-split analyses on three representative tasks show that the winning configuration is stable across five seeds for the two larger tasks but not for the smallest, condition-sensitive task. The current release evaluates repeat-unit-centered polymer property prediction and does not explicitly encode higher-order factors such as molecular-weight distributions, tacticity, morphology, processing history, device architecture, or measurement protocol; tasks are therefore grouped into three provisional interpretation tiers, with condition-sensitive tasks explicitly treated as exploratory repeat-unit baselines. PolyBench is intended as a reproducible infrastructure resource for controlled method comparison, not as a complete model of chain-, sample-, or process-dependent polymer behavior, and is available at http://polybench.ciac.jl.cn (http://202.98.16.11)",
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    "State Key Laboratory of Polymer Science and Technology, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, P. R. China",
    "School of Applied Chemistry and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China"
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      "name": "Wenzhuo Feng"
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      "name": "Hongfei Li",
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  "doi": "10.1021/polymscitech.6c00094",
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  "pmcid": "PMC13721469",
  "pmid": "42964728",
  "published": "2026-08-31",
  "publisher": "American Chemical Society",
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  "title": "PolyBench: A Reproducible Open Benchmark Platform for Repeat-Unit-Based Polymer Property Prediction",
  "title_text": "PolyBench: A Reproducible Open Benchmark Platform for Repeat-Unit-Based Polymer Property Prediction",
  "type": "peer-reviewed",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-03T12:22:09Z",
  "url": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/83yrwev75fj6b",
  "venue": "Polymer science & technology (Washington, D.C.)",
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