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Activity cliff prediction - identifying positions where small structural changes cause large potency shifts - has been a persistent challenge in computational medicinal chemistry. This work focuses on a parsimonious definition: which small…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-10 Michael Cuccarese

Activity cliffs, which refer to pairs of molecules that are structurally similar but show significant differences in their potency, can lead to model representation collapse and make the model challenging to distinguish them. Our research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Zhixiang Cheng , Hongxin Xiang , Pengsen Ma , Li Zeng , Xin Jin , Xixi Yang , Jianxin Lin , Yang Deng , Bosheng Song , Xinxin Feng , Changhui Deng , Xiangxiang Zeng

Machine learning for molecular property prediction has focused largely on pure compounds, even though many practical applications depend on mixtures with intermolecular interactions. Recent work has expanded the availability of mixture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Roel J. Leenhouts , Nathan K. Morgan , William Green , Jan G. Rittig , Florence H. Vermeire

Machine learning (ML) enables accurate and fast molecular property predictions, which are of interest in drug discovery and material design. Their success is based on the principle of similarity at its heart, assuming that similar molecules…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Fang Wu

Activity cliffs (ACs), which are generally defined as pairs of structurally similar molecules that are active against the same bio-target but significantly different in the binding potency, are of great importance to drug discovery. Up to…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-02-16 Ziqiao Zhang , Bangyi Zhao , Ailin Xie , Yatao Bian , Shuigeng Zhou

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been widely applied in drug discovery with a major task as molecular property prediction. Despite booming techniques in molecular representation learning, key elements underlying molecular property…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-09-06 Jianyuan Deng , Zhibo Yang , Hehe Wang , Iwao Ojima , Dimitris Samaras , Fusheng Wang

Artificial Intelligence (AI)-aided drug discovery is an active research field, yet AI models often exhibit poor accuracy in regression tasks for molecular property prediction, and perform catastrophically poorly for out-of-distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Xiaoyu Fan , Lin Guo , Ruizhen Jia , Yang Tian , Zhihao Yang , Weihao Li , Boxue Tian

Drug-target binding affinity prediction is a fundamental task for drug discovery. It has been extensively explored in literature and promising results are reported. However, in this paper, we demonstrate that the results may be misleading…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Chenbin Zhang , Zhiqiang Hu , Chuchu Jiang , Wen Chen , Jie Xu , Shaoting Zhang

Introduction: Computational modeling has rapidly advanced over the last decades, especially to predict molecular properties for chemistry, material science and drug design. Recently, machine learning techniques have emerged as a powerful…

In recent years the machine learning techniques have shown a great potential in various problems from a multitude of disciplines, including materials design and drug discovery. The high computational speed on the one hand and the accuracy…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Konstantin Gubaev , Evgeny V. Podryabinkin , Alexander V. Shapeev

Molecular property prediction is essential in a variety of contemporary scientific fields, such as drug development and designing energy storage materials. Although there are many machine learning models available for this purpose, those…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Gihan Panapitiya , Peiyuan Gao , C Mark Maupin , Emily G Saldanha

Graph neural networks for molecular property prediction are frequently underspecified by data and fail to generalise to new scaffolds at test time. A potential solution is Bayesian learning, which can capture our uncertainty in the model…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-12-04 George Lamb , Brooks Paige

The limited extrapolative power of structure-based machine learning (ML) models is a critical bottleneck in chemical discovery, particularly for industrial R&D, where navigating uncharted chemical space to find next-generation materials or…

Molecular property prediction (MPP) is a crucial task in the drug discovery pipeline, which has recently gained considerable attention thanks to advances in deep neural networks. However, recent research has revealed that deep models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Jun Xia , Lecheng Zhang , Xiao Zhu , Stan Z. Li

Molecular property prediction (MPP) is a fundamental and crucial task in drug discovery. However, prior methods are limited by the requirement for a large number of labeled molecules and their restricted ability to generalize for unseen and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-21 Yuyan Liu , Sirui Ding , Sheng Zhou , Wenqi Fan , Qiaoyu Tan

Production language-model systems answer a request by partitioning it across an invisible orchestration of worker agents that recompose one integrated report. We ask what this does to a class of defect no single worker can see: a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Hiroki Fukui

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have become increasingly effective at approximating quantum mechanical calculations at a fraction of the computational cost. However, lower errors on held out test sets do not always translate…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-24 Xiang Fu , Brandon M. Wood , Luis Barroso-Luque , Daniel S. Levine , Meng Gao , Misko Dzamba , C. Lawrence Zitnick

The past few years have seen the development of ``universal'' machine-learning interatomic potentials (uMLIPs) capable of approximating the ground-state potential energy surface across a wide range of chemical structures and compositions…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Sofiia Chorna , Davide Tisi , Cesare Malosso , Wei Bin How , Michele Ceriotti , Sanggyu Chong

Data-driven methods based on machine learning have the potential to accelerate computational analysis of atomic structures. In this context, reliable uncertainty estimates are important for assessing confidence in predictions and enabling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Jonas Busk , Peter Bjørn Jørgensen , Arghya Bhowmik , Mikkel N. Schmidt , Ole Winther , Tejs Vegge

Machine learning (ML) is a promising approach for predicting small molecule properties in drug discovery. Here, we provide a comprehensive overview of various ML methods introduced for this purpose in recent years. We review a wide range of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-25 Nikolai Schapin , Maciej Majewski , Alejandro Varela , Carlos Arroniz , Gianni De Fabritiis
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