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Interference between pharmacological substances can cause serious medical injuries. Correctly predicting so-called drug-drug interactions (DDI) does not only reduce these cases but can also result in a reduction of drug development cost.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Md. Rezaul Karim , Michael Cochez , Joao Bosco Jares , Mamtaz Uddin , Oya Beyan , Stefan Decker

Drug-target interaction (DTI) prediction is a core task in drug development and precision medicine in the biomedical field. However, traditional machine learning methods generally have the black box problem, which makes it difficult to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-30 Wenfeng Dai , Yanhong Wang , Shuai Yan , Qingzhi Yu , Xiang Cheng

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) are powerful samplers for compositional objects that, by design, sample proportionally to a given non-negative reward. Nonetheless, in practice, they often struggle to explore the reward landscape…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Pedro Dall'Antonia , Tiago da Silva , Daniel Augusto de Souza , César Lincoln C. Mattos , Diego Mesquita

Generative flow networks (GFlowNets) are a family of algorithms that learn a generative policy to sample discrete objects $x$ with non-negative reward $R(x)$. Learning objectives guarantee the GFlowNet samples $x$ from the target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Max W. Shen , Emmanuel Bengio , Ehsan Hajiramezanali , Andreas Loukas , Kyunghyun Cho , Tommaso Biancalani

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) learn to sample diverse candidates in proportion to a reward function, making them well-suited for scientific discovery, where exploring multiple promising solutions is crucial. Further extending…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Seokwon Yoon , Youngbin Choi , Seunghyuk Cho , Seungbeom Lee , MoonJeong Park , Dongwoo Kim

Generative models see increasing use in computer-aided drug design. However, while performing well at capturing distributions of molecular motifs, they often produce synthetically inaccessible molecules. To address this, we introduce…

Gaining more comprehensive knowledge about drug-drug interactions (DDIs) is one of the most important tasks in drug development and medical practice. Recently graph neural networks have achieved great success in this task by modeling drugs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Tengfei Ma , Junyuan Shang , Cao Xiao , Jimeng Sun

In the last decades, people have been consuming and combining more drugs than before, increasing the number of Drug-Drug Interactions (DDIs). To predict unknown DDIs, recently, studies started incorporating Knowledge Graphs (KGs) since they…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Lizzy Farrugia , Lilian M. Azzopardi , Jeremy Debattista , Charlie Abela

It is a common practice in modern medicine to prescribe multiple medications simultaneously to treat diseases. However, these medications could have adverse reactions between them, known as Drug-Drug Interactions (DDI), which have the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Azwad Tamir , Jiann-Shiun Yuan

Complex or co-existing diseases are commonly treated using drug combinations, which can lead to higher risk of adverse side effects. The detection of polypharmacy side effects is usually done in Phase IV clinical trials, but there are still…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-03 Andreea Deac , Yu-Hsiang Huang , Petar Veličković , Pietro Liò , Jian Tang

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) have recently emerged as a suitable framework for generating diverse and high-quality molecular structures by learning from rewards treated as unnormalized distributions. Previous works in this framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Mohit Pandey , Gopeshh Subbaraj , Artem Cherkasov , Martin Ester , Emmanuel Bengio

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

There are many frameworks for deep generative modeling, each often presented with their own specific training algorithms and inference methods. Here, we demonstrate the connections between existing deep generative models and the recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Dinghuai Zhang , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Nikolay Malkin , Yoshua Bengio

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) have demonstrated significant performance improvements for generating diverse discrete objects $x$ given a reward function $R(x)$, indicating the utility of the object and trained independently from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Chanakya Ekbote , Moksh Jain , Payel Das , Yoshua Bengio

Uncovering rationales behind predictions of graph neural networks (GNNs) has received increasing attention over the years. Existing literature mainly focus on selecting a subgraph, through combinatorial optimization, to provide faithful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Wenqian Li , Yinchuan Li , Zhigang Li , Jianye Hao , Yan Pang

The recently proposed generative flow networks (GFlowNets) are a method of training a policy to sample compositional discrete objects with probabilities proportional to a given reward via a sequence of actions. GFlowNets exploit the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Daniil Tiapkin , Nikita Morozov , Alexey Naumov , Dmitry Vetrov

Retrieving gene functional networks from knowledge databases presents a challenge due to the mismatch between disease networks and subtype-specific variations. Current solutions, including statistical and deep learning methods, often fail…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Ziwei Yang , Zheng Chen , Xin Liu , Rikuto Kotoge , Peng Chen , Yasuko Matsubara , Yasushi Sakurai , Jimeng Sun

Minimizing adverse reactions caused by drug-drug interactions has always been a momentous research topic in clinical pharmacology. Detecting all possible interactions through clinical studies before a drug is released to the market is a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Meng Wang

Adverse drug reaction (ADR) prediction plays a crucial role in both health care and drug discovery for reducing patient mortality and enhancing drug safety. Recently, many studies have been devoted to effectively predict the drug-ADRs…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Haoxuan Li , Taojun Hu , Zetong Xiong , Chunyuan Zheng , Fuli Feng , Xiangnan He , Xiao-Hua Zhou

Predicting and discovering drug-drug interactions (DDIs) using machine learning has been studied extensively. However, most of the approaches have focused on text data or textual representation of the drug structures. We present the first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Devendra Singh Dhami , Siwen Yan , Gautam Kunapuli , David Page , Sriraam Natarajan