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Drug discovery is a time-consuming and expensive process, with traditional high-throughput and docking-based virtual screening hampered by low success rates and limited scalability. Recent advances in generative modelling, including…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Junkai Ji , Zhangfan Yang , Dong Xu , Ruibin Bai , Jianqiang Li , Tingjun Hou , Zexuan Zhu

Transfer learning has become an essential tool in modern computer vision, allowing practitioners to leverage backbones, pretrained on large datasets, to train successful models from limited annotated data. Choosing the right backbone is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Joris Guerin , Shray Bansal , Amirreza Shaban , Paulo Mann , Harshvardhan Gazula

Detecting rare objects from a few examples is an emerging problem. Prior works show meta-learning is a promising approach. But, fine-tuning techniques have drawn scant attention. We find that fine-tuning only the last layer of existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Xin Wang , Thomas E. Huang , Trevor Darrell , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Fisher Yu

Although recent studies have proposed seizure detection algorithms with good sensitivity performance, there is a remained challenge that they were hard to achieve significantly short detection latency in real-time scenarios. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-29 Yankun Xu , Jie Yang , Wenjie Ming , Shuang Wang , Mohamad Sawan

Trajectory planning for automated vehicles commonly employs optimization over a moving horizon - Model Predictive Control - where the cost function critically influences the resulting driving style. However, finding a suitable cost function…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-20 Lukas Theiner , Sebastian Hirt , Alexander Steinke , Rolf Findeisen

Virtual screening can accelerate drug discovery by identifying promising candidates for experimental evaluation. Machine learning is a powerful method for screening, as it can learn complex structure-property relationships from experimental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Simon Axelrod , Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli

Many real-world scenarios require multiple agents to coordinate in shared environments, while balancing trade-offs between multiple, potentially competing objectives. Current multi-objective multi-agent path finding (MO-MAPF) algorithms…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Pulkit Rustagi , Kyle Hollins Wray , Sandhya Saisubramanian

The world has witnessed unprecedented human and economic loss from the COVID-19 disease, caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Extensive research is being conducted across the globe to identify therapeutic agents against the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-04-09 Rohit Batra , Henry Chan , Ganesh Kamath , Rampi Ramprasad , Mathew J. Cherukara , Subramanian Sankaranarayanan

Recent advances in drug discovery have demonstrated that incorporating side information (e.g., chemical properties about drugs and genomic information about diseases) often greatly improves prediction performance. However, these side…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Sijian Fan , Liyan Xiong , Dayuan Wang , Guoshuai Cai , Ray Bai

Optimization strategies driven by machine learning, such as Bayesian optimization, are being explored across experimental sciences as an efficient alternative to traditional design of experiment. When combined with automated laboratory…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Riley J. Hickman , Matteo Aldeghi , Florian Häse , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Decision making or scientific discovery pipelines such as job hiring and drug discovery often involve multiple stages: before any resource-intensive step, there is often an initial screening that uses predictions from a machine learning…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-05-30 Ying Jin , Emmanuel J. Candès

In materials informatics, searching for chemical materials with desired properties is challenging due to the vastness of the chemical space. Moreover, the high cost of evaluating properties necessitates a search with a few clues. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-18 Mikiya Doi , Yoshihiro Nakao , Takuro Tanaka , Masami Sako , Masayuki Ohzeki

The aim of black-box optimization is to optimize an objective function within the constraints of a given evaluation budget. In this problem, it is generally assumed that the computational cost for evaluating a point is large; thus, it is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-03 Masahiro Nomura , Kenshi Abe

In this study, we evaluate several classifiers and focus on selecting a minimal set of appropriate material features. Our objective is to propose and discuss general strategies for reducing the number of descriptors required for material…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-01 Giovanni Trezza , Eliodoro Chiavazzo

In many real-world applications, evaluating the quality of instances is costly and time-consuming, e.g., human feedback and physics simulations, in contrast to proposing new instances. In particular, this is even more critical in…

Preferential Bayesian optimization (PBO) is a framework for optimizing a decision-maker's latent preferences over available design choices. While preferences often involve multiple conflicting objectives, existing work in PBO assumes that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Raul Astudillo , Kejun Li , Maegan Tucker , Chu Xin Cheng , Aaron D. Ames , Yisong Yue

Molecule synthesis through machine learning is one of the fundamental problems in drug discovery. Current data-driven strategies employ one-step retrosynthesis models and search algorithms to predict synthetic routes in a top-bottom manner.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Songtao Liu , Hanjun Dai , Yue Zhao , Peng Liu

Combination therapies are often needed for effective clinical outcomes in the management of complex diseases, but presently they are generally based on empirical clinical experience. Here we suggest a novel application of search algorithms,…

Feature selection represents a measure to reduce the complexity of high-dimensional datasets and gain insights into the systematic variation in the data. This aspect is of specific importance in domains that rely on model interpretability,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Anna Jenul , Stefan Schrunner , Jürgen Pilz , Oliver Tomic

Predicting the binding affinity between small molecules and target macromolecules while combining both speed and accuracy, is a cornerstone of modern computational drug discovery which is critical for accelerating therapeutic development.…