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In this paper we construct a learning architecture for high dimensional time series sampled by sensor arrangements. Using a redundant wavelet decomposition on a graph constructed over the sensor locations, our algorithm is able to construct…

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With the consolidation of deep learning in drug discovery, several novel algorithms for learning molecular representations have been proposed. Despite the interest of the community in developing new methods for learning molecular embeddings…

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Prediction of solubility has been a complex and challenging physiochemical problem that has tremendous implications in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry. Recent advancements in machine learning methods have provided great scope for…

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Olfaction lies at the intersection of chemical structure, neural encoding, and linguistic perception, yet existing representation methods fail to fully capture this pathway. Current approaches typically model only isolated segments of the…

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The use of machine learning in chemistry has become a common practice. At the same time, despite the success of modern machine learning methods, the lack of data limits their use. Using a transfer learning methodology can help solve this…

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Molecular representation is a critical element in our understanding of the physical world and the foundation for modern molecular machine learning. Previous molecular machine learning models have employed strings, fingerprints, global…

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Deep learning methods have been widely applied to visual and acoustic technology. In this paper, we proposed an odor labeling convolutional encoder-decoder (OLCE) for odor identification in machine olfaction. OLCE composes a convolutional…

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Designing a network to learn a molecule structure given its physical/chemical properties is a hard problem, but is useful for drug discovery tasks. In this paper, we incorporate higher-order relational learning of Factor Graphs with strong…

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