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Accurate molecular property prediction is central to drug discovery, catalysis, and process design, yet real-world applications are often limited by small datasets. Molecular foundation models provide a promising direction by learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Karim K. Ben Hicham , Jan G. Rittig , Martin Grohe , Alexander Mitsos

Predicting transcriptional responses to novel drugs provides a unique opportunity to accelerate biomedical research and advance drug discovery efforts. However, the inherent complexity and high dimensionality of cellular responses, combined…

Molecular generation and molecular property prediction are both crucial for drug discovery, but they are often developed independently. Inspired by recent studies, which demonstrate that diffusion model, a prominent generative approach, can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Shikun Feng , Yuyan Ni , Yan Lu , Zhi-Ming Ma , Wei-Ying Ma , Yanyan Lan

Foundation models have recently gained attention within the field of machine learning thanks to its efficiency in broad data processing. While researchers had attempted to extend this success to time series models, the main challenge is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Trang H. Tran , Lam M. Nguyen , Kyongmin Yeo , Nam Nguyen , Roman Vaculin

Deep learning methods for material property prediction have been widely explored to advance materials discovery. However, the prevailing pre-train then fine-tune paradigm often fails to address the inherent diversity and disparity of…

Reliable molecular property prediction is essential for various scientific endeavors and industrial applications, such as drug discovery. However, the data scarcity, combined with the highly non-linear causal relationships between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yue Wan , Jialu Wu , Tingjun Hou , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Xiaowei Jia

The power of foundation models (FMs) lies in their capacity to learn highly expressive representations that can be adapted to a broad spectrum of tasks. However, these pretrained models require additional training stages to become effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Jacob L. Block , Sundararajan Srinivasan , Liam Collins , Aryan Mokhtari , Sanjay Shakkottai

In recent years, there has been a surge in the development of 3D structure-based pre-trained protein models, representing a significant advancement over pre-trained protein language models in various downstream tasks. However, most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Jiale Zhao , Wanru Zhuang , Jia Song , Yaqi Li , Shuqi Lu

DNA sequence encoding is fundamental to gene function prediction, protein synthesis, and diverse downstream biological tasks. Despite the substantial progress achieved by large-scale DNA sequence pretraining, existing studies have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zhijiang Tang , Jiaxin Qi , Yan Cui , Jinli Ou , Yuhua Zheng , Jianqiang Huang

Deep learning has achieved remarkable success in learning representations for molecules, which is crucial for various biochemical applications, ranging from property prediction to drug design. However, training Deep Neural Networks (DNNs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Jun Xia , Yanqiao Zhu , Yuanqi Du , Stan Z. Li

Systematic identification of protein function is a key problem in current biology. Most traditional methods fail to identify functionally equivalent proteins if they lack similar sequences, structural data or extensive manual annotations.…

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Deep learning techniques have revolutionised medical imaging, improving diagnostic accuracy and enabling both more accurate and earlier disease detection. However, the relationship between pre-training strategies and downstream performance…

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Protein function prediction is a pivotal task in drug discovery, significantly impacting the development of effective and safe therapeutics. Traditional machine learning models often struggle with the complexity and variability inherent in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Bohao Xu , Yingzhou Lu , Yoshitaka Inoue , Namkyeong Lee , Tianfan Fu , Jintai Chen

For protein sequence datasets, unlabeled data has greatly outpaced labeled data due to the high cost of wet-lab characterization. Recent deep-learning approaches to protein prediction have shown that pre-training on unlabeled data can yield…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Pascal Sturmfels , Jesse Vig , Ali Madani , Nazneen Fatema Rajani

Protein is linked to almost every life process. Therefore, analyzing the biological structure and property of protein sequences is critical to the exploration of life, as well as disease detection and drug discovery. Traditional protein…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Yijia Xiao , Jiezhong Qiu , Ziang Li , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Jie Tang

Contrastive learning has moved the state of the art for many tasks in computer vision and information retrieval in recent years. This poster is the first work that applies supervised contrastive learning to the task of product matching in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Ralph Peeters , Christian Bizer

In this paper, we propose that small models may not need to absorb the cost of pre-training to reap its benefits. Instead, they can capitalize on the astonishing results achieved by modern, enormous models to a surprising degree. We observe…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Sean Farhat , Deming Chen

Property prediction on molecular graphs is an important application of Graph Neural Networks. Recently, unlabeled molecular data has become abundant, which facilitates the rapid development of self-supervised learning for GNNs in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Kha-Dinh Luong , Ambuj Singh

Classical empirical force fields have dominated biomolecular simulation for over 50 years. Although widely used in drug discovery, crystal structure prediction, and biomolecular dynamics, they generally lack the accuracy and transferability…

Large language models applied to vast biological datasets have the potential to transform biology by uncovering disease mechanisms and accelerating drug development. However, current models are often siloed, trained separately on…