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WASTE indexes published research — it does not host or republish full papers. Each entry is a metadata record (title, authors, DOI) compiled from open scholarly databases, with the abstract shown in full only where the paper is openly licensed (e.g. Creative Commons); otherwise a short excerpt is shown for reference under fair use. WASTE classifies each work by failure type; classifications are automated and approximate.

2 results in Failed Experiment Report for "deep learning"

Failed Experiment ReportOpen accessComputer Science

DrugEx v3: scaffold-constrained drug design with graph transformer-based reinforcement learning

Xuhan Liu, Kai Ye, Herman van Vlijmen et al. · 2023 · Journal of Cheminformatics

Abstract Rational drug design often starts from specific scaffolds to which side chains/substituents are added or modified due to the large drug-like chemical space available to search for novel drug-like molecules. With the rapid growth of deep learning in drug discovery, a variety of effective approaches have been developed for de novo drug design. In previous work we proposed a method named DrugEx , which can be applied in polypharmacology based on multi-objective deep reinforcement learning. However, the previous version is trained under fixed objectives and does not allow users to input a

View details →DOI: 10.1186/s13321-023-00694-zCited by 80
Failed Experiment ReportOpen accessMedicine

Severe deviation in protein fold prediction by advanced AI: a case study.

López-Sagaseta J, Urdiciain A · 2025 · Scientific reports

Artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning are making groundbreaking strides in protein structure prediction. AlphaFold is remarkable in this arena for its outstanding accuracy in modelling proteins fold based solely on their amino…

View details →DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-89516-w