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In recent decades, traditional drug research and development have been facing challenges such as high cost, long timelines, and high risks. To address these issues, many computational approaches have been suggested for predicting the…

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Combination drug therapies hold significant promise for enhancing treatment efficacy, particularly in fields such as oncology, immunotherapy, and infectious diseases. However, designing clinical trials for these regimens poses unique…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-04 Nan Miles Xi , Man Mandy Jin , Lin Wang , Xin Huang

Spectral clustering is one of the most popular unsupervised machine learning methods. Constructing similarity matrix is crucial to this type of method. In most existing works, the similarity matrix is computed once for all or is updated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Yongyan Guo , Gang Wu

The cold-start user issue further compromises the effectiveness of recommender systems in limiting access to the historical behavioral information. It is an effective pipeline to optimize instructional prompts on a few-shot large language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Haowei Yang , Yushang Zhao , Sitao Min , Bo Su , Chao Yao , Wei Xu

Deep neural networks have demonstrated promising performance on image recognition tasks. However, they may heavily rely on confounding factors, using irrelevant artifacts or bias within the dataset as the cue to improve performance. When a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Siyuan Yan , Zhen Yu , Xuelin Zhang , Dwarikanath Mahapatra , Shekhar S. Chandra , Monika Janda , Peter Soyer , Zongyuan Ge

Many clinical deep learning algorithms are population-based and difficult to interpret. Such properties limit their clinical utility as population-based findings may not generalize to individual patients and physicians are reluctant to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Dani Kiyasseh , Tingting Zhu , David A. Clifton

We establish a broad methodological foundation for mixed-integer optimization with learned constraints. We propose an end-to-end pipeline for data-driven decision making in which constraints and objectives are directly learned from data…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-30 Donato Maragno , Holly Wiberg , Dimitris Bertsimas , S. Ilker Birbil , Dick den Hertog , Adejuyigbe Fajemisin

Designing recommendation systems with limited or no available training data remains a challenge. To that end, a new combinatorial optimization problem is formulated to generate optimized item selection for experimentation with the goal to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Bernard Kleynhans , Xin Wang , Serdar Kadıoğlu

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,…

As a future trend of healthcare, personalized medicine tailors medical treatments to individual patients. It requires to identify a subset of patients with the best response to treatment. The subset can be defined by a biomarker (e.g.…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-08-16 Yitao Lu , Julie Zhou , Li Xing , Xuekui Zhang

In critical decision support systems based on medical imaging, the reliability of AI-assisted decision-making is as relevant as predictive accuracy. Although deep learning models have demonstrated significant accuracy, they frequently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Hua Xu , Julián D. Arias-Londoño , Juan I. Godino-Llorente

The systematic discovery of effective drug combinations is a challenging problem in modern pharmacology, driven by the combinatorial growth of potential pairings and dosage configurations. Network medicine, modeling diseases and drugs as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Diogo Ramos , Bruno Coutinho , Duarte Magano

Early diagnosis of disease can lead to improved health outcomes, including higher survival rates and lower treatment costs. With the massive amount of information available in electronic health records (EHRs), there is great potential to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Asem Alaa , Erik Mayer , Mauricio Barahona

This paper explores meta-learning in sequential recommendation to alleviate the item cold-start problem. Sequential recommendation aims to capture user's dynamic preferences based on historical behavior sequences and acts as a key component…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Yujia Zheng , Siyi Liu , Zekun Li , Shu Wu

Dose-finding trials are a key component of the drug development process and rely on a statistical design to help inform dosing decisions. Triallists wishing to choose a design require knowledge of operating characteristics of competing…

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Drug combinations are frequently used for the treatment of cancer patients in order to increase efficacy, decrease adverse side effects, or overcome drug resistance. Given the enormous number of drug combinations, it is cost- and…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2021-02-18 Peiran Jiang , Shujun Huang , Zhenyuan Fu , Zexuan Sun , Ted M. Lakowski , Pingzhao Hu

Cancer remains a global challenge due to its growing clinical and economic burden. Its uniquely personal manifestation, which makes treatment difficult, has fuelled the quest for personalized treatment strategies. Thus, genomic profiling is…

Virtual screening, which identifies potential drugs from vast compound databases to bind with a particular protein pocket, is a critical step in AI-assisted drug discovery. Traditional docking methods are highly time-consuming, and can only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Bowen Gao , Bo Qiang , Haichuan Tan , Minsi Ren , Yinjun Jia , Minsi Lu , Jingjing Liu , Weiying Ma , Yanyan Lan

Background: Conventional prediction methods such as logistic regression and gradient boosting have been widely utilized for disease onset prediction for their reliability and interpretability. Deep learning methods promise enhanced…