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We propose a versatile deep image compression network based on Spatial Feature Transform (SFT arXiv:1804.02815), which takes a source image and a corresponding quality map as inputs and produce a compressed image with variable rates. Our…

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Current deep learning-based approaches to lesion segmentation in neuroimaging often depend on high-resolution images and extensive annotated data, limiting clinical applicability. This paper introduces a novel synthetic data framework…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-18 Liam Chalcroft , Ioannis Pappas , Cathy J. Price , John Ashburner

Controlled synthesis of materials with specified atomic structures underpins technological advances yet remains reliant on iterative, trial-and-error approaches. Nanoparticles (NPs), whose atomic arrangement dictates their emergent…

While significant research efforts have been directed toward developing more capable neural decoding architectures, comparatively little attention has been paid to the quality of training data. In this study, we address the challenge of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Ahmad Ismail , Raphaël Le Bidan , Elsa Dupraz , Charbel Abdel-Nour

Scientists are attempting to use models of ever increasing complexity, especially in medicine, where gene-based diseases such as cancer require better modeling of cell regulation. Complex models suffer from uncertainty and experiments are…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-01 Mahdi Imani , Roozbeh Dehghannasiri , Ulisses M. Braga-Neto , Edward R. Dougherty

RNA design is the search for a sequence or set of sequences that will fold into predefined structures, also known as the inverse problem of RNA folding. While numerous RNA design methods have been invented to find sequences capable of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-13 Tianshuo Zhou , Wei Yu Tang , David H. Mathews , Liang Huang

Deciding feasibility of large systems of linear equations and inequalities is one of the most fundamental algorithmic tasks. However, due to data inaccuracies or modeling errors, in practical applications one often faces linear systems that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Kristóf Bérczi , Alexander Göke , Lydia Mirabel Mendoza-Cadena , Matthias Mnich

Recently, deep generative models have revealed itself as a promising way of performing de novo molecule design. However, previous research has focused mainly on generating SMILES strings instead of molecular graphs. Although current graph…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-04-24 Yibo Li , Liangren Zhang , Zhenming Liu

Single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) stands as a powerful tool for deciphering cellular heterogeneity and exploring gene expression profiles at high resolution. However, its high cost renders it impractical for extensive sample cohorts…

Background: In the Nearest-Neighbor Thermodynamic Model, a standard approach for RNA secondary structure prediction, the energy of the multiloops is modeled using a linear entropic penalty governed by three branching parameters. Although…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-15 Svetlana Poznanović , Owen Cardwell , Christine Heitsch

Recently, methods have been proposed that perform texture synthesis and style transfer by using convolutional neural networks (e.g. Gatys et al. [2015,2016]). These methods are exciting because they can in some cases create results with…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Eric Risser , Pierre Wilmot , Connelly Barnes

Designing therapeutic messenger RNA (mRNA) requires creating full-length transcripts that carefully balance stability, translation efficiency, and immune safety. To address this challenge, we propose ProMORNA, a multi-objective generation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Zixi Shao , Tao Wang , Yibei Xiao , Tianyi Huang

We present a general setting for structure-sequence comparison in a large class of RNA structures that unifies and generalizes a number of recent works on specific families on structures. Our approach is based on tree decomposition of…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2012-06-21 Philippe Rinaudo , Yann Ponty , Dominique Barth , Alain Denise

From self-assembly and protein folding to combinatorial metamaterials, a key challenge in material design is finding the right combination of interacting building blocks that yield targeted properties. Such structures are fiendishly…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-26 Ryan van Mastrigt , Marjolein Dijkstra , Martin van Hecke , Corentin Coulais

This paper presents a computational framework for the robust stiffness design of hyperelastic structures at finite deformations subject to various uncertain sources. In particular, the loading, material properties, and geometry…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Nan Feng , Guodong Zhang , Kapil Khandelwal

We extend an hypergraph representation, introduced by Finkelstein and Roytberg, to unify dynamic programming algorithms in the context of RNA folding with pseudoknots. Classic applications of RNA dynamic programming energy minimization,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2011-06-21 Yann Ponty , Cédric Saule

Proteins perform critical processes in all living systems: converting solar energy into chemical energy, replicating DNA, as the basis of highly performant materials, sensing and much more. While an incredible range of functionality has…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-29 Leonardo V. Castorina , Rokas Petrenas , Kartic Subr , Christopher W. Wood

In this work, we analyze an efficient sampling-based algorithm for general-purpose reachability analysis, which remains a notoriously challenging problem with applications ranging from neural network verification to safety analysis of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-15 Thomas Lew , Lucas Janson , Riccardo Bonalli , Marco Pavone

We present a simple kinetic model for the assembly of small single-stranded RNA viruses that can be used to carry out analytical packaging contests between different types of RNA molecules. The RNA selection mechanism is purely kinetic and…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-02-09 Inbal Mizrahi , Robijn Bruinsma , Joseph Rudnick

In this study, we address the challenge of using energy-based models to produce high-quality, label-specific data in complex structured datasets, such as population genetics, RNA or protein sequences data. Traditional training methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Alessandra Carbone , Aurélien Decelle , Lorenzo Rosset , Beatriz Seoane