Summary of Entropy-reinforced Planning with Large Language Models For Drug Discovery, by Xuefeng Liu et al.
Entropy-Reinforced Planning with Large Language Models for Drug Discovery
by Xuefeng Liu, Chih-chan Tien, Peng Ding, Songhao Jiang, Rick L. Stevens
First submitted to arxiv on: 11 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes ERP, Entropy-Reinforced Planning for Transformer Decoding, to enhance the molecule generation process in drug discovery. Existing large language models (LLMs) can generate molecules with high token matching scores, but often produce invalid or suboptimal compounds due to unbalanced exploration and exploitation. ERP aims to balance this by employing an entropy-reinforced planning algorithm to improve the Transformer decoding process. The proposed method was evaluated on the SARS-CoV-2 virus (3CLPro) and human cancer cell target protein (RTCB) benchmarks, demonstrating consistent outperformance of current state-of-the-art algorithms. Additionally, ERP was tested on three code generation benchmarks, also outperforming the current state-of-the-art approach. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper helps scientists find new medicines by creating better ways to generate molecules. Existing computer models can make good guesses about molecule structures, but sometimes they get it wrong or don’t try hard enough. The researchers created a new method called ERP that helps the computer model balance trying different ideas and choosing the best one. They tested this method on two sets of data related to finding medicines for COVID-19 and cancer. The results show that ERP does better than current methods in both cases. They also tested it on another type of problem and found that it did well there too. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Token » Transformer
