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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Junde Li , Collin Beaudoin , Swaroop Ghosh

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has achieved impressive performance in many complex environments due to the integration with Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). At the same time, Genetic Algorithms (GAs), often seen as a competing approach to RL, had…

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Identifying promising compounds from a vast collection of feasible compounds is an important and yet challenging problem in the pharmaceutical industry. An efficient solution to this problem will help reduce the expenditure at the early…

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Geometric deep learning (GDL) has demonstrated huge power and enormous potential in molecular data analysis. However, a great challenge still remains for highly efficient molecular representations. Currently, covalent-bond-based molecular…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-06-28 Cong Shen , Jiawei Luo , Kelin Xia

Advancing research in the emerging field of deep graph learning requires new tools to support tensor computation over graphs. In this paper, we present the design principles and implementation of Deep Graph Library (DGL). DGL distills the…

Research into deep learning models for molecular property prediction has primarily focused on the development of better Graph Neural Network (GNN) architectures. Though new GNN variants continue to improve performance, their modifications…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-11-23 Toni Sagayaraj , Carsten Eickhoff

Drug discovery is a complex process that involves multiple stages and tasks. However, existing molecular generative models can only tackle some of these tasks. We present Generalist Molecular generative model (GenMol), a versatile framework…

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Graph neural networks (GNNs) constitute a class of deep learning methods for graph data. They have wide applications in chemistry and biology, such as molecular property prediction, reaction prediction and drug-target interaction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Mufei Li , Jinjing Zhou , Jiajing Hu , Wenxuan Fan , Yangkang Zhang , Yaxin Gu , George Karypis

We present Exact Gauss-Newton (EGN), a stochastic second-order optimization algorithm that combines the generalized Gauss-Newton (GN) Hessian approximation with low-rank linear algebra to compute the descent direction. Leveraging the…

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Sample efficiency is a fundamental challenge in de novo molecular design. Ideally, molecular generative models should learn to satisfy a desired objective under minimal oracle evaluations (computational prediction or wet-lab experiment).…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-05-26 Jeff Guo , Philippe Schwaller

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable performance in many tasks, yet they often behave as opaque black boxes. Explanation-guided learning (EGL) methods steer DNNs using human-provided explanations or supervision on model…

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Deep graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved excellent results on various tasks on increasingly large graph datasets with millions of nodes and edges. However, memory complexity has become a major obstacle when training deep GNNs for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Guohao Li , Matthias Müller , Bernard Ghanem , Vladlen Koltun

Recently, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have recorded great success in handling medical and other complex classification tasks. However, as the sizes of a DNN model and the available dataset increase, the training process becomes more complex…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Samson B. Akintoye , Liangxiu Han , Xin Zhang , Haoming Chen , Daoqiang Zhang

Full-batch training on Graph Neural Networks (GNN) to learn the structure of large graphs is a critical problem that needs to scale to hundreds of compute nodes to be feasible. It is challenging due to large memory capacity and bandwidth…

This paper introduces Domain Generalization Sharpness-Aware Minimization Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning (DGS-MAML), a novel meta-learning algorithm designed to generalize across tasks with limited training data. DGS-MAML combines gradient…

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This paper presents a state-of-the-art overview on how to architect, design, and optimize Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) such that performance is improved and accuracy is preserved. The paper covers a set of optimizations that span the entire…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Humberto Carvalho , Pavel Zaykov , Asim Ukaye

When training Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) there is a large emphasis on creating efficient optimization algorithms and highly accurate networks. The state-of-the-art method of optimizing the networks is done by using gradient…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Manuel Bradicic , Michal Sitarz , Felix Sylvest Olesen

Graduated optimization is a global optimization technique that is used to minimize a multimodal nonconvex function by smoothing the objective function with noise and gradually refining the solution. This paper experimentally evaluates the…

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