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most citedTITAN: T Cell Receptor Specificity Prediction with Bimodal Attention Networks

196 citations · 1.1k across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

q-bio.TO2025

COVID-BLUeS -- A Prospective Study on the Value of AI in Lung Ultrasound Analysis

Nina Wiedemann, Dianne de Korte-de Boer, Matthias Richter +10

As a lightweight and non-invasive imaging technique, lung ultrasound (LUS) has gained importance for assessing lung pathologies. The use of Artificial intelligence (AI) in medical…

cs.LG2025

Towards generalizable single-cell perturbation modeling via the Conditional Monge Gap

Alice Driessen, Benedek Harsanyi, Marianna Rapsomaniki +1

Learning the response of single-cells to various treatments offers great potential to enable targeted therapies. In this context, neural optimal transport (OT) has emerged as a pri…

cs.AI2025

We Need Improved Data Curation and Attribution in AI for Scientific Discovery

Mara Graziani, Antonio Foncubierta, Dimitrios Christofidellis +5

As the interplay between human-generated and synthetic data evolves, new challenges arise in scientific discovery concerning the integrity of the data and the stability of the mode…

cs.LG2025

Quantum Doubly Stochastic Transformers

Jannis Born, Filip Skogh, Kahn Rhrissorrakrai +3

At the core of the Transformer, the softmax normalizes the attention matrix to be right stochastic. Previous research has shown that this often de-stabilizes training and that enfo…

cs.CL2025

Multiscale Byte Language Models -- A Hierarchical Architecture for Causal Million-Length Sequence Modeling

Eric Egli, Matteo Manica, Jannis Born

Bytes form the basis of the digital world and thus are a promising building block for multimodal foundation models. Recently, Byte Language Models (BLMs) have emerged to overcome t…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Regress, Don't Guess -- A Regression-like Loss on Number Tokens for Language Models

Jonas Zausinger, Lars Pennig, Anamarija Kozina +13

While language models have exceptional capabilities at text generation, they lack a natural inductive bias for emitting numbers and thus struggle in tasks involving quantitative re…

cs.LG2024

Quantum Theory and Application of Contextual Optimal Transport

Nicola Mariella, Albert Akhriev, Francesco Tacchino +9

Optimal Transport (OT) has fueled machine learning (ML) across many domains. When paired data measurements are coupled to covariates, a challenging c…

physics.chem-ph2023★ 15 cited

Language models in molecular discovery

Nikita Janakarajan, Tim Erdmann, Sarath Swaminathan +2

The success of language models, especially transformer-based architectures, has trickled into other domains giving rise to "scientific language models" that operate on small molecu…

quant-ph2023★ 9 cited

Towards quantum-enabled cell-centric therapeutics

Saugata Basu, Jannis Born, Aritra Bose +30

In recent years, there has been tremendous progress in the development of quantum computing hardware, algorithms and services leading to the expectation that in the near future qua…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Domain-agnostic and Multi-level Evaluation of Generative Models

Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, Jannis Born, Celia Cintas +4

While the capabilities of generative models heavily improved in different domains (images, text, graphs, molecules, etc.), their evaluation metrics largely remain based on simplifi…

cs.LG2023★ 25 cited

Unifying Molecular and Textual Representations via Multi-task Language Modelling

Dimitrios Christofidellis, Giorgio Giannone, Jannis Born +3

The recent advances in neural language models have also been successfully applied to the field of chemistry, offering generative solutions for classical problems in molecular desig…

cs.LG2022★ 37 cited

Accelerating Material Design with the Generative Toolkit for Scientific Discovery

Matteo Manica, Jannis Born, Joris Cadow +21

With the growing availability of data within various scientific domains, generative models hold enormous potential to accelerate scientific discovery. They harness powerful represe…

cs.LG2022★ 148 cited

Regression Transformer: Concurrent sequence regression and generation for molecular language modeling

Jannis Born, Matteo Manica

Despite significant progress of generative models in the natural sciences, their controllability remains challenging. One fundamentally missing aspect of molecular or protein gener…

q-bio.BM2021★ 196 cited

TITAN: T Cell Receptor Specificity Prediction with Bimodal Attention Networks

Anna Weber, Jannis Born, María Rodríguez Martínez

Motivation: The activity of the adaptive immune system is governed by T-cells and their specific T-cell receptors (TCR), which selectively recognize foreign antigens. Recent advanc…

cs.CV2020★ 165 cited

Accelerating COVID-19 Differential Diagnosis with Explainable Ultrasound Image Analysis

Jannis Born, Nina Wiedemann, Gabriel Brändle +3

Controlling the COVID-19 pandemic largely hinges upon the existence of fast, safe, and highly-available diagnostic tools. Ultrasound, in contrast to CT or X-Ray, has many practical…

eess.IV2020★ 129 cited

Computer Vision For COVID-19 Control: A Survey

Anwaar Ulhaq, Asim Khan, Douglas Gomes +1

The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered an urgent need to contribute to the fight against an immense threat to the human population. Computer Vision, as a subfield of Artificial Intell…

q-bio.QM2020★ 1 cited

PaccMann on SARS-CoV-2: Designing antiviral candidates with conditional generative models

Jannis Born, Matteo Manica, Joris Cadow +4

With the fast development of COVID-19 into a global pandemic, scientists around the globe are desperately searching for effective antiviral therapeutic agents. Bridging systems bio…

eess.IV2020★ 156 cited

POCOVID-Net: Automatic Detection of COVID-19 From a New Lung Ultrasound Imaging Dataset (POCUS)

Jannis Born, Gabriel Brändle, Manuel Cossio +4

With the rapid development of COVID-19 into a global pandemic, there is an ever more urgent need for cheap, fast and reliable tools that can assist physicians in diagnosing COVID-1…

q-bio.BM2019★ 21 cited

PaccMann: Designing anticancer drugs from transcriptomic data via reinforcement learning

Jannis Born, Matteo Manica, Ali Oskooei +3

With the advent of deep generative models in computational chemistry, in silico anticancer drug design has undergone an unprecedented transformation. While state-of-the-art deep le…

cs.LG2019★ 163 cited

Towards Explainable Anticancer Compound Sensitivity Prediction via Multimodal Attention-based Convolutional Encoders

Matteo Manica, Ali Oskooei, Jannis Born +3

In line with recent advances in neural drug design and sensitivity prediction, we propose a novel architecture for interpretable prediction of anticancer compound sensitivity using…

cs.LG2018★ 27 cited

PaccMann: Prediction of anticancer compound sensitivity with multi-modal attention-based neural networks

Ali Oskooei, Jannis Born, Matteo Manica +3

We present a novel approach for the prediction of anticancer compound sensitivity by means of multi-modal attention-based neural networks (PaccMann). In our approach, we integrate…