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Several recently devised machine learning (ML) algorithms have shown improved accuracy for various predictive problems. Model searches, which explore to find an optimal ML algorithm and hyperparameter values for the target problem, play a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Yoshiki Takahashi , Masato Asahara , Kazuyuki Shudo

While deep learning has revolutionized computer-aided drug discovery, the AI community has predominantly focused on model innovation and placed less emphasis on establishing best benchmarking practices. We posit that without a sound model…

Generation of drug-like molecules with high binding affinity to target proteins remains a difficult and resource-intensive task in drug discovery. Existing approaches primarily employ reinforcement learning, Markov sampling, or deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Peter Eckmann , Kunyang Sun , Bo Zhao , Mudong Feng , Michael K. Gilson , Rose Yu

De novo molecule generation can suffer from data inefficiency; requiring large amounts of training data or many sampled data points to conduct objective optimization. The latter is a particular disadvantage when combining deep generative…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Morgan Thomas , Noel M. O'Boyle , Andreas Bender , Chris De Graaf

As machine learning (ML) is more tightly woven into society, it is imperative that we better characterize ML's strengths and limitations if we are to employ it responsibly. Existing benchmark environments for ML, such as board and video…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Eric Pulick , Shubham Bharti , Yiding Chen , Vladimir Menkov , Yonatan Mintz , Paul Kantor , Vicki M. Bier

Discovering new medicines is the hallmark of human endeavor to live a better and longer life. Yet the pace of discovery has slowed down as we need to venture into more wildly unexplored biomedical space to find one that matches today's high…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Tri Minh Nguyen , Thin Nguyen , Truyen Tran

Predicting drug properties is key in drug discovery to enable de-risking of assets before expensive clinical trials, and to find highly active compounds faster. Interest from the Machine Learning community has led to the release of a…

Molecular optimization is a fundamental goal in the chemical sciences and is of central interest to drug and material design. In recent years, significant progress has been made in solving challenging problems across various aspects of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Wenhao Gao , Tianfan Fu , Jimeng Sun , Connor W. Coley

Due to their excellent drug-like and pharmacokinetic properties, small molecule drugs are widely used to treat various diseases, making them a critical component of drug discovery. In recent years, with the rapid development of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Kun Li , Yida Xiong , Hongzhi Zhang , Xiantao Cai , Jia Wu , Bo Du , Wenbin Hu

Drug-target interaction (DTI) prediction plays a very important role in drug development and drug discovery. Biochemical experiments or \textit{in vitro} methods are very expensive, laborious and time-consuming. Therefore, \textit{in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Ratha Pech , Dong Hao , Yan-Li Lee , Maryna Po , Tao Zhou

With the development of computer-assisted techniques, research communities including biochemistry and deep learning have been devoted into the drug discovery field for over a decade. Various applications of deep learning have drawn great…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Wenhao Hu , Yingying Liu , Xuanyu Chen , Wenhao Chai , Hangyue Chen , Hongwei Wang , Gaoang Wang

Traditional drug discovery is a long, expensive, and complex process. Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are beginning to change this narrative. Here, we provide a comprehensive overview of different AI and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Khartik Uppalapati , Eeshan Dandamudi , S. Nick Ice , Gaurav Chandra , Kirsten Bischof , Christian L. Lorson , Kamal Singh

Publicly available collections of drug-like molecules have grown to comprise 10s of billions of possibilities in recent history due to advances in chemical synthesis. Traditional methods for identifying "hit" molecules from a large…

Molecular machine learning has been maturing rapidly over the last few years. Improved methods and the presence of larger datasets have enabled machine learning algorithms to make increasingly accurate predictions about molecular…

In recent years, machine learning has been proposed as a promising strategy to build accurate scoring functions for computational docking finalized to numerically empowered drug discovery. However, the latest studies have suggested that…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-02-17 F. Pellicani , D. Dal Ben , A. Perali , S. Pilati

A central task in computational drug discovery is to construct models from known active molecules to find further promising molecules for subsequent screening. However, typically only very few active molecules are known. Therefore, few-shot…

Development of new medications is a very lengthy and costly process. Finding novel indications for existing drugs, or drug repositioning, can serve as a useful strategy to shorten the development cycle. In this study, we present an approach…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2017-12-13 Kai Zhao , Hon-Cheong So

Efficient exploration of the chemical space to search the candidate drugs that satisfy various constraints is a fundamental task of drug discovery. Advanced deep generative methods attempt to optimize the molecules in the compact latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Zhiyuan Chen , Xiaomin Fang , Zixu Hua , Yueyang Huang , Fan Wang , Hua Wu

Drug discovery is crucial for identifying candidate drugs for various diseases.However, its low success rate often results in a scarcity of annotations, posing a few-shot learning problem. Existing methods primarily focus on single-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Ruifeng Li , Mingqian Li , Wei Liu , Yuhua Zhou , Xiangxin Zhou , Yuan Yao , Qiang Zhang , Hongyang Chen

Large Language Models (LLM) are increasingly used for software development, yet existing benchmarks for LLM-based coding assistance do not reflect the constraints of High Energy Physics (HEP) and High Performance Computing (HPC) software.…