bad performance of MLP on drug synergy prediction task

[kkhuang1997]

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Hi, with the purpose to reproduce results of drug synergy prediction task, i.e., https://github.com/mims-harvard/TDC/tree/main/examples/multi_pred/drugcombo, i run through the example code. However, the results look bad in terms of unchanged loss and validation MAE.

(just show the first two rounds)

I noticed that another similar issue was proposed, https://github.com/mims-harvard/TDC/issues/169, and suspected bad performance of MLP on this task.

Any advice on how to choose a proper model to deal with this task?

Many thanks!

[futianfan]

thanks for your interest! Maybe you could try other neural architectures to get a more powerful representation, e.g., 1D-CNN or transformer for 1D SMILES string and graph neural network for drug molecular graph.

[kexinhuang12345]

closing for now, feel free to reopen if question remains!