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Protein modeling is an increasingly popular area of machine learning research. Semi-supervised learning has emerged as an important paradigm in protein modeling due to the high cost of acquiring supervised protein labels, but the current…

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Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is widely used to study protein conformations and dynamics. However, conventional simulation suffers from being trapped in some local energy minima that are hard to escape. Thus, most computational time is…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-04-28 Hao Tian , Xi Jiang , Sian Xiao , Hunter La Force , Eric C. Larson , Peng Tao

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) with Evolutionary Computation (EC) has unlocked new frontiers in scientific discovery but remains shackled by a fundamental constraint: the reliance on an Oracle--an objective,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Zhe Zhao , Yuheng Yang , Haibin Wen , Xiaojie Qiu , Zaixi Zhang , Qingfu Zhang

Automated heuristic design (AHD) has gained considerable attention for its potential to automate the development of effective heuristics. The recent advent of large language models (LLMs) has paved a new avenue for AHD, with initial efforts…

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Large language models (LLMs) have garnered considerable attention for their proficiency in tackling intricate tasks, particularly leveraging their capacities for zero-shot and in-context learning. However, their utility has been…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-14 Yiqing Shen , Outongyi Lv , Houying Zhu , Yu Guang Wang

Protein engineers conventionally use tools such as Directed Evolution to find new proteins with better functionalities and traits. More recently, computational techniques and especially machine learning approaches have been recruited to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Iliya Miralavy , Alexander Bricco , Assaf Gilad , Wolfgang Banzhaf

Natural evolution gives the impression of leading to an open-ended process of increasing diversity and complexity. If our goal is to produce such open-endedness artificially, this suggests an approach driven by evolutionary metaphor. On the…

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Genetic mutations frequently disrupt protein structure, stability, and solubility, acting as primary drivers for a wide spectrum of diseases. Despite the critical importance of these molecular alterations, existing computational models…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Yiming Ren , Junjie Wee , Xi Chen , Grace Qian , Guo-Wei Wei

Modern deep neural networks are powerful predictive tools yet often lack valid inference for causal parameters, such as treatment effects or entire survival curves. While frameworks like Double Machine Learning (DML) and Targeted Maximum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Yi Li , David Mccoy , Nolan Gunter , Kaitlyn Lee , Alejandro Schuler , Mark van der Laan

Preserving topological structures is important in real-world applications, particularly in sensitive domains such as healthcare and medicine, where the correctness of human anatomy is critical. However, most existing image editing models…

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Complex prediction models such as deep learning are the output from fitting machine learning, neural networks, or AI models to a set of training data. These are now standard tools in science. A key challenge with the current generation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Meng Liu , Tamal K. Dey , David F. Gleich

This paper surveys foundation models for AI-enabled biological design, focusing on recent developments in applying large-scale, self-supervised models to tasks such as protein engineering, small molecule design, and genomic sequence design.…

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Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) employ random or simplistic selection methods, limiting their exploration of solution spaces and convergence to optimal solutions. The randomness in performing crossover or mutations may limit the model's…

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Agriculture is at the heart of the solution to achieve sustainability in feeding the world population, but advancing our understanding on how agricultural output responds to climatic variability is still needed. Precision Agriculture (PA),…

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Edge Artificial Intelligence (Edge AI) embeds intelligence directly into devices at the network edge, enabling real-time processing with improved privacy and reduced latency by processing data close to its source. This review systematically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Mohamad Abou Ali , Fadi Dornaika

Engineering design optimization requires an efficient combination of a 3D shape representation, an optimization algorithm, and a design performance evaluation method, which is often computationally expensive. We present a prompt evolution…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Melvin Wong , Thiago Rios , Stefan Menzel , Yew Soon Ong

Pre-trained large language models (LLMs) exhibit powerful capabilities for generating natural text. Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) can discover diverse solutions to complex real-world problems. Motivated by the common collective and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Chao Wang , Jiaxuan Zhao , Licheng Jiao , Lingling Li , Fang Liu , Shuyuan Yang

Time dependence is a universal phenomenon in nature, and a variety of mathematical models in terms of dynamical systems have been developed to understand the time-dependent behavior of real-world problems. Originally constructed to analyze…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-02-14 Zixuan Cang , Elizabeth Munch , Guo-Wei Wei

Life over the past four billion years has been shaped by proteins and their capacity to assemble into three dimensional conformations. Protein sequence alignments have been the enabling technology for exploring the evolution and functional…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-16 Andrei Preoteasa , Andreas Grigorjew , Alexandru I. Tomescu , Hajk-Georg Drost

The current advances in generative AI for learning large neural network models with the capability to produce essays, images, music and even 3D assets from text prompts create opportunities for a manifold of disciplines. In the present…

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