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Directed evolution as a widely-used engineering strategy faces obstacles in finding desired mutants from the massive size of candidate modifications. While deep learning methods learn protein contexts to establish feasible searching space,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-04-18 Bingxin Zhou , Outongyi Lv , Kai Yi , Xinye Xiong , Pan Tan , Liang Hong , Yu Guang Wang

The performance of active learning algorithms can be improved in two ways. The often used and intuitive way is by reducing the overall error rate within the test set. The second way is to ensure that correct predictions are not forgotten…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Ryan Benkert , Mohit Prabhushankar , Ghassan AlRegib

A new gradient-based optimization approach by automatically scheduling the learning rate has been proposed recently, which is called Binary Forward Exploration (BFE). The Adaptive version of BFE has also been discussed thereafter. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Xin Cao

Active learning (AL) reduces human annotation costs for machine learning systems by strategically selecting the most informative unlabeled data for annotation, but performing it individually may still be insufficient due to restricted data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Jun Zhang , Jue Wang , Huan Li , Zhongle Xie , Ke Chen , Lidan Shou

When training a variational autoencoder (VAE) on a given dataset, determining the optimal number of latent variables is mostly done by grid search: a costly process in terms of computational time and carbon footprint. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Lisa Bonheme , Marek Grzes

Simulating the time evolution of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) of large-scale systems is crucial in many scientific and engineering domains such as fluid dynamics, weather forecasting and their inverse optimization problems.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Tailin Wu , Takashi Maruyama , Jure Leskovec

Fine-tuning the pre-trained model with active learning holds promise for reducing annotation costs. However, this combination introduces significant computational costs, particularly with the growing scale of pre-trained models. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Ziting Wen , Oscar Pizarro , Stefan Williams

The recent advancement in deep learning (DL) for automatic modulation classification (AMC) of wireless signals has encouraged numerous possible applications on resource-constrained edge devices. However, developing optimized DL models…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Nayan Moni Baishya , B. R. Manoj , Prabin K. Bora

Deep learning has been widely used for protein engineering. However, it is limited by the lack of sufficient experimental data to train an accurate model for predicting the functional fitness of high-order mutants. Here, we develop SESNet,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-04-10 Mingchen Li , Liqi Kang , Yi Xiong , Yu Guang Wang , Guisheng Fan , Pan Tan , Liang Hong

As a cornerstone in the Evolutionary Computation (EC) domain, Differential Evolution (DE) is known for its simplicity and effectiveness in handling challenging black-box optimization problems. While the advantages of DE are well-recognized,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Minyang Chen , Chenchen Feng , and Ran Cheng

In this paper, we mainly focus on the penalized maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) of the high-dimensional approximate factor model. Since the current estimation procedure can not guarantee the positive definiteness of the error covariance…

Computation · Statistics 2019-01-18 Shaoxin Wang , Hu Yang , Chaoli Yao

To reduce experimental effort associated with directed protein evolution and to explore the sequence space encoded by mutating multiple positions simultaneously, we incorporate machine learning in the directed evolution workflow.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-01-07 Zachary Wu , S. B. Jennifer Kan , Russell D. Lewis , Bruce J. Wittmann , Frances H. Arnold

Active learning (AL) seeks to reduce annotation costs by selecting the most informative samples for labeling, making it particularly valuable in resource-constrained settings. However, traditional evaluation methods, which focus solely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Julia Machnio , Mads Nielsen , Mostafa Mehdipour Ghazi

Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) have emerged as a powerful framework for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) by embedding physical constraints into the loss function. However, standard optimizers such as Adam often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Vismay Churiwala , Hardik Shukla , Manurag Khullar

Differential Evolution (DE) is a renowned optimization stratagem that can easily solve nonlinear and comprehensive problems. DE is a well known and uncomplicated population based probabilistic approach for comprehensive optimization. It has…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Sandeep Kumar , Vivek Kumar Sharma , Rajani Kumari

Active learning (AL) algorithms may achieve better performance with fewer data because the model guides the data selection process. While many algorithms have been proposed, there is little study on what the optimal AL algorithm looks like,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Yilun Zhou , Adithya Renduchintala , Xian Li , Sida Wang , Yashar Mehdad , Asish Ghoshal

Covariate adjustment is a ubiquitous method used to estimate the average treatment effect (ATE) from observational data. Assuming a known graphical structure of the data generating model, recent results give graphical criteria for optimal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Alexander Mangulad Christgau , Anton Rask Lundborg , Niels Richard Hansen

Motivation: Protein folding is a dynamic process during which a protein's amino acid sequence undergoes a series of 3-dimensional (3D) conformational changes en route to reaching a native 3D structure; the resulting 3D structural…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-09 Aydin Wells , Khalique Newaz , Jennifer Morones , Jianlin Cheng , Tijana Milenković

This paper introduces an enhanced meta-heuristic (ML-ACO) that combines machine learning (ML) and ant colony optimization (ACO) to solve combinatorial optimization problems. To illustrate the underlying mechanism of our ML-ACO algorithm, we…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Yuan Sun , Sheng Wang , Yunzhuang Shen , Xiaodong Li , Andreas T. Ernst , Michael Kirley

Stabilizing proteins is a foundational step in protein engineering. However, the evolutionary pressure of all extant proteins makes identifying the scarce number of mutations that will improve thermodynamic stability challenging. Deep…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-01 Jeffrey Ouyang-Zhang , Daniel J. Diaz , Adam R. Klivans , Philipp Krähenbühl