Paper List
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MCP-AI: Protocol-Driven Intelligence Framework for Autonomous Reasoning in Healthcare
This paper addresses the critical gap in healthcare AI systems that lack contextual reasoning, long-term state management, and verifiable workflows by...
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Model Gateway: Model Management Platform for Model-Driven Drug Discovery
This paper addresses the critical bottleneck of fragmented, ad-hoc model management in pharmaceutical research by providing a centralized, scalable ML...
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Tree Thinking in the Genomic Era: Unifying Models Across Cells, Populations, and Species
This paper addresses the fragmentation of tree-based inference methods across biological scales by identifying shared algorithmic principles and stati...
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SSDLabeler: Realistic semi-synthetic data generation for multi-label artifact classification in EEG
This paper addresses the core challenge of training robust multi-label EEG artifact classifiers by overcoming the scarcity and limited diversity of ma...
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Decoding Selective Auditory Attention to Musical Elements in Ecologically Valid Music Listening
This paper addresses the core challenge of objectively quantifying listeners' selective attention to specific musical components (e.g., vocals, drums,...
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Physics-Guided Surrogate Modeling for Machine Learning–Driven DLD Design Optimization
This paper addresses the core bottleneck of translating microfluidic DLD devices from research prototypes to clinical applications by replacing weeks-...
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Mechanistic Interpretability of Antibody Language Models Using SAEs
This work addresses the core challenge of achieving both interpretability and controllable generation in domain-specific protein language models, spec...
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Fluctuating Environments Favor Extreme Dormancy Strategies and Penalize Intermediate Ones
This paper addresses the core challenge of determining how organisms should tune dormancy duration to match the temporal autocorrelation of their envi...
Hierarchical Molecular Language Models (HMLMs)
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA
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IN SHORT: This paper addresses the core challenge of accurately modeling context-dependent signaling, pathway cross-talk, and temporal dynamics across multiple biological scales in cellular signaling networks.
核心创新
- Methodology Introduces cellular signaling as a molecular language with unique grammar and semantics, establishing a theoretical foundation for molecular artificial intelligence (MAI).
- Methodology Develops HMLMs as a novel computational architecture adapting transformer architecture to model signaling networks as information-processing systems across molecular, pathway, and cellular scales.
- Methodology Implements graph-structured attention mechanisms and hierarchical scale-bridging operators (aggregation, decomposition, translation) to accommodate signaling network topology and multi-scale organization.
主要结论
- HMLM achieved MSE of 0.058 for temporal signaling predictions, representing 30% improvement over GNNs (0.083) and 52% improvement over ODE models (0.121).
- Under sparse temporal sampling with only 4 timepoints, HMLM maintained superior performance with MSE = 0.041, demonstrating robustness to limited temporal data.
- Attention mechanisms identified biologically plausible pathway interactions including mechanotransduction-MAPK coupling and TGFβ to ERK signaling, validating the model's ability to capture meaningful biological relationships.
摘要: Cellular signaling networks represent complex information processing systems that have been modeled via traditional mathematical or statistical approaches. However, these methods often struggle to capture context-dependent signaling, pathway cross-talk, and temporal dynamics across multiple biological scales. Here, we introduce hierarchical molecular language models (HMLMs), a novel architecture that proposes a molecular network-specifiac large language model (LLM) to use in intracellular communication as a specialized molecular language, which includes molecules as tokens, protein interactions, post-translational modifications, and regulatory events modeled as semantic relationships within an adapted transformer architecture. HMLMs employ graph-structured attention mechanisms to accommodate signaling network topology while integrating information across the molecular, pathway, and cellular scales through hierarchical attention patterns. We demonstrate HMLM superiority using a cardiac fibroblast signaling network comprising over 100 molecular species across functional modules connected by regulatory edges. HMLM achieved a mean squared error (MSE) of 0.058 for temporal signaling predictions, representing 30% improvement over graph neural networks (GNNs: 0.083) and 52% improvement over ordinary differential equation models (ODEs: 0.121), with particular advantages under sparse temporal sampling conditions where HMLM maintained MSE = 0.041 with only 4 timepoints. The attention-based computational analysis identified key inter-pathway cross-talk patterns through learned attention mechanisms, including mechanotransduction-MAPK coupling and TGFβ to ERK signaling, demonstrating the model's capability to capture biologically plausible pathway interactions from network topology and temporal dynamics and convergent regulatory mechanisms controlling fibrosis markers in simulated cardiac fibroblast networks. The HMLMs offer a foundation for AI-driven biology and medicine with predictable scaling characteristics suitable for interactive applications. By bridging molecular mechanisms with cellular phenotypes through AI-driven molecular language representation, HMLMs provide a powerful paradigm for systems biology that advances precision medicine applications and therapeutic discovery in the era of AI.