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New FRAGMENTA model accelerates drug discovery with limited data

Researchers have developed FRAGMENTA, an end-to-end generative model designed for drug lead optimization, particularly effective in scenarios with limited training data. The model incorporates LVSEF, a fragment-based generator that optimizes fragmentation and generation simultaneously, and an agentic system that translates expert feedback into updated generative objectives. In testing across small-data datasets, LVSEF demonstrated superior performance compared to state-of-the-art methods in extremely limited data settings and matched them at larger scales, while also training significantly faster. Iterative optimization using FRAGMENTA showed improvements in discovery yield, with a real-world deployment identifying nearly twice as many molecules with favorable docking scores. AI

IMPACT Accelerates drug discovery pipelines, especially in data-scarce environments, by improving molecule generation and optimization.

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New FRAGMENTA model accelerates drug discovery with limited data

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Yuto Suzuki, Paul Awolade, Daniel V. LaBarbera, Farnoush Banaei-Kashani ·

    FRAGMENTA: Efficient End-to-end Fragmentation-based Generative Model with Agentic Tuning for Drug Lead Optimization in Small Data Regime

    arXiv:2511.20510v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Molecule generation from extremely limited training data is a key challenge in drug discovery. Existing fragment-based methods are more suitable than atom-based approaches in this regime, but typically optimize fragment selectio…