Block Seminar Machine Learning for Language Processing (Spring 2027)

Deep learning is the predominant machine learning paradigm in language processing. This approach not only gave huge performance improvements across a large variety of natural language processing tasks. This time we will loke at agentic AI for lifes science and other papers on drug discovery

Lecturer:  Dietrich Klakow

Location:  t.d.b

Time: block course in the spring break 2027 however preparations start earlier. Here the specific time line

Closing topic doodle: tbd
Kick-Off: tbd
One page outline: tbd
Draft presentation: tbd

Practice talks and final talks will be during the spring break. Time/date will be decided during the kick-off.

Application for participation:  see CS seminar system (for CS; BioInf, DSAI, VC, ES, …), for CoLI,LST, LCT use LSF to apply.

LSF exam registration deadline: 29.1.27

Grading (tentative):

  • 5% three slide/5 min presentation
  • 10% draft of full presentation
  • 10% practice talk
  • 25% own experiments and coding
  • 10% report on coding task
  • 35% final talk
  • 5% contributions to discussion during final talk of fellow participants

List of Topics (tentative):

  1. Augmenting large language models with chemistry tools
  2. Autonomous chemical research with large language models
  3. LIDDIA: Language-based Intelligent Drug Discovery Agent
  4. DrugAgent: Automating AI-aided Drug Discovery Programming through LLM Multi-Agent Collaboration
  5. Democratising real-world drug discovery through agentic AI
  6. Towards an AI co-scientist
  7. AI agents in drug discovery: applications and case studies
  8. Towards end-to-end automation of AI research
  9. DeCoDe: Decoupling Binding Position and Molecular Conformation in 3D Ligand Diffusion for Structure-Based Drug Design
  10. From Feasible to Practical: Pareto-Optimal Synthesis Planning
  11. Contrastive Geometric Learning Unlocks Unified Structure- and Ligand-Based Drug Design
  12. Learning Hamiltonian Flow Maps: Mean Flow Consistency for Large-Timestep Molecular Dynamics