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most citedLarge Language Models versus Classical Machine Learning: Performance in COVID-19 Mortality Prediction Using High-Dimensional Tabular Data

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q-bio.QM2026

DrugGen 2: A disease-aware language model for enhancing drug discovery

Ali Motahharynia, Mohammadreza Ghaffarzadeh-Esfahani, Mahsa Sheikholeslami +4

Current computational approaches for drug design typically focus on generating molecules conditioned on specific targets or general molecular properties, often neglecting the influ…

cs.CL2026

Small Language Models for Privacy-Preserving Clinical Information Extraction in Low-Resource Languages

Mohammadreza Ghaffarzadeh-Esfahani, Nahid Yousefian, Ebrahim Heidari-Farsani +4

Extracting clinical information from medical transcripts in low-resource languages remains a significant challenge in healthcare natural language processing (NLP). This study evalu…

q-bio.QM2026

AAVGen: Precision Engineering of Adeno-associated Viral Capsids for Renal Selective Targeting

Mohammadreza Ghaffarzadeh-Esfahani, Yousof Gheisari

Adeno-associated viruses (AAVs) are promising vectors for gene therapy, but their native serotypes face limitations in tissue tropism, immune evasion, and production efficiency. En…

cs.LG2025

DrugReasoner: Interpretable Drug Approval Prediction with a Reasoning-augmented Language Model

Mohammadreza Ghaffarzadeh-Esfahani, Ali Motahharynia, Nahid Yousefian +3

Drug discovery is a complex and resource-intensive process, making early prediction of approval outcomes critical for optimizing research investments. While classical machine learn…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Large Language Models versus Classical Machine Learning: Performance in COVID-19 Mortality Prediction Using High-Dimensional Tabular Data

Mohammadreza Ghaffarzadeh-Esfahani, Mahdi Ghaffarzadeh-Esfahani, Arian Salahi-Niri +39

This study compared the performance of classical feature-based machine learning models (CMLs) and large language models (LLMs) in predicting COVID-19 mortality using high-dimension…