Summary of Tx-llm: a Large Language Model For Therapeutics, by Juan Manuel Zambrano Chaves et al.
Tx-LLM: A Large Language Model for Therapeutics
by Juan Manuel Zambrano Chaves, Eric Wang, Tao Tu, Eeshit Dhaval Vaishnav, Byron Lee, S. Sara Mahdavi, Christopher Semturs, David Fleet, Vivek Natarajan, Shekoofeh Azizi
First submitted to arxiv on: 10 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A large language model (LLM) capable of expediting therapeutics development would be highly valuable, but current AI approaches typically focus on narrowly defined tasks within specific domains. The proposed Tx-LLM addresses this gap by fine-tuning a generalist LLM from PaLM-2 and encoding knowledge about diverse therapeutic modalities. This single model is trained using 709 datasets targeting 66 tasks across various stages of the drug discovery pipeline, allowing it to predict a broad range of associated properties with competitive performance on 43 out of 66 tasks and exceeding state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on 22. Tx-LLM shows particular strength in tasks combining molecular SMILES representations with text, such as cell line names or disease names, likely due to context learned during pretraining. The model also demonstrates positive transfer between tasks with diverse drug types and its performance is impacted by model size, domain finetuning, and prompting strategies. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The researchers developed a special kind of AI called Tx-LLM that can help find new medicines faster. Right now, most AI models are good at just one or two specific things, but Tx-LLM is different because it can do many tasks all at once. It was trained on lots of data about different types of medicine and how they work in the body. This makes Tx-LLM very good at predicting what different medicines will do when used together or with other treatments. The team thinks this could be a big step forward in finding new medicines and helping people who are sick. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Fine tuning » Large language model » Palm » Pretraining » Prompting
