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Predicting drug-target affinity is fundamental to virtual screening and lead optimization. However, existing deep models often suffer from representation collapse in stringent cold-start regimes, where the scarcity of labels and domain…

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Inspired by recent advances in retrieval augmented methods in NLP~\citep{khandelwal2019generalization,khandelwal2020nearest,meng2021gnn}, in this paper, we introduce a $k$ nearest neighbor NER ($k$NN-NER) framework, which augments the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Shuhe Wang , Xiaoya Li , Yuxian Meng , Tianwei Zhang , Rongbin Ouyang , Jiwei Li , Guoyin Wang

Drug--target affinity prediction is pivotal for accelerating drug discovery, yet existing methods suffer from significant performance degradation in realistic cold-start scenarios (unseen drugs/targets/pairs), primarily driven by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zihan Dun , Liuyi Xu , An-Yang Lu , Shuang Li , Yining Qian

Retrieval augmented methods have shown promising results in various classification tasks. However, existing methods focus on retrieving extra context to enrich the input, which is noise sensitive and non-expandable. In this paper, following…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Xinnian Liang , Shuangzhi Wu , Hui Huang , Jiaqi Bai , Chao Bian , Zhoujun Li

In recent years, many deep-learning based models are proposed for text classification. This kind of models well fits the training set from the statistical point of view. However, it lacks the capacity of utilizing instance-level information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Zhiguo Wang , Wael Hamza , Linfeng Song

Deep neural networks (DNNs) enable innovative applications of machine learning like image recognition, machine translation, or malware detection. However, deep learning is often criticized for its lack of robustness in adversarial settings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Nicolas Papernot , Patrick McDaniel

Multi-Label Text Classification (MLTC) is a practical yet challenging task that involves assigning multiple non-exclusive labels to each document. Previous studies primarily focus on capturing label correlations to assist label prediction…

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Many text classification methods usually introduce external information (e.g., label descriptions and knowledge bases) to improve the classification performance. Compared to external information, some internal information generated by the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Bo Yuan , Yulin Chen , Zhen Tan , Wang Jinyan , Huan Liu , Yin Zhang

$K$-NN classifier is one of the most famous classification algorithms, whose performance is crucially dependent on the distance metric. When we consider the distance metric as a parameter of $K$-NN, learning an appropriate distance metric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Kun Song

Approximate $k$-nearest neighbor search (A$k$-NNS) is a core operation in vector databases, underpinning applications such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and image retrieval. In these scenarios, users often prefer diverse result…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Jiachen Zhao , Xiao Yan , Eric Lo

This paper proposes a novel meta-learning based hyper-parameter optimization framework for wireless network traffic prediction (NTP) models. The primary objective is to accumulate and leverage the acquired hyper-parameter optimization…

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Recent works have theoretically and empirically shown that deep neural networks (DNNs) have an inherent vulnerability to small perturbations. Applying the Deep k-Nearest Neighbors (DkNN) classifier, we observe a dramatically increasing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Ren Wang , Tianqi Chen , Alfred Hero

Aggregating pharmaceutical data in the drug-target interaction (DTI) domain has the potential to deliver life-saving breakthroughs. It is, however, notoriously difficult due to regulatory constraints and commercial interests. This work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Gianluca Mittone , Filip Svoboda , Marco Aldinucci , Nicholas D. Lane , Pietro Lio

Approximate k-Nearest Neighbour (ANN) methods are often used for mining information and aiding machine learning on large scale high-dimensional datasets. ANN methods typically differ in the index structure used for accelerating searches,…

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Drug discovery remains a slow and expensive process that involves many steps, from detecting the target structure to obtaining approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and is often riddled with safety concerns. Accurate…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-22 Ali Vefghi , Zahed Rahmati , Mohammad Akbari

Accurately predicting the binding affinity between drugs and proteins is an essential step for computational drug discovery. Since graph neural networks (GNNs) have demonstrated remarkable success in various graph-related tasks, GNNs have…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-12-18 Jingbo Zhou , Shuangli Li , Liang Huang , Haoyi Xiong , Fan Wang , Tong Xu , Hui Xiong , Dejing Dou

Deep neural networks (DNNs) often rely on massive labelled data for training, which is inaccessible in many applications. Data augmentation (DA) tackles data scarcity by creating new labelled data from available ones. Different DA methods…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Binyan Hu , Yu Sun , A. K. Qin

Efficient and effective drug-target binding affinity (DTBA) prediction is a challenging task due to the limited computational resources in practical applications and is a crucial basis for drug screening. Inspired by the good representation…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-15 Shuke Zhang , Yanzhao Jin , Tianmeng Liu , Qi Wang , Zhaohui Zhang , Shuliang Zhao , Bo Shan

Assessing drug-target affinity is a critical step in the drug discovery and development process, but to obtain such data experimentally is both time consuming and expensive. For this reason, computational methods for predicting binding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Elizaveta Vinogradova , Karina Pats , Ferdinand Molnár , Siamac Fazli

Many recent machine learning tasks focus to develop models that can generalize to unseen distributions. Domain generalization (DG) has become one of the key topics in various fields. Several literatures show that DG can be arbitrarily hard…

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