Han Tang

Souvik Kundu, Sairam Sundaresan, Sharath Nittur Sridhar et al.

Existing deep neural networks (DNNs) that achieve state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on both clean and adversarially-perturbed images rely on either activation or weight conditioned convolution operations. However, such conditional learning costs additional multiply-accumulate (MAC) or addition operations, increasing inference memory and compute costs. To that end, we present a sparse mixture once for all adversarial training (SMART), that allows a model to train once and then in-situ trade-off between accuracy and robustness, that too at a reduced compute and parameter overhead. In particular, SMART develops two expert paths, for clean and adversarial images, respectively, that are then conditionally trained via respective dedicated sets of binary sparsity masks. Extensive evaluations on multiple image classification datasets across different models show SMART to have up to 2.72x fewer non-zero parameters costing proportional reduction in compute overhead, while yielding SOTA accuracy-robustness trade-off. Additionally, we present insightful observations in designing sparse masks to successfully condition on both clean and perturbed images.

Han Tang, Shikun Feng, Bicheng Lin et al.

In recent years, self-supervised learning has emerged as a powerful tool to harness abundant unlabelled data for representation learning and has been broadly adopted in diverse areas. However, when applied to molecular representation learning (MRL), prevailing techniques such as masked sub-unit reconstruction often fall short, due to the high degree of freedom in the possible combinations of atoms within molecules, which brings insurmountable complexity to the masking-reconstruction paradigm. To tackle this challenge, we introduce REMO, a self-supervised learning framework that takes advantage of well-defined atom-combination rules in common chemistry. Specifically, REMO pre-trains graph/Transformer encoders on 1.7 million known chemical reactions in the literature. We propose two pre-training objectives: Masked Reaction Centre Reconstruction (MRCR) and Reaction Centre Identification (RCI). REMO offers a novel solution to MRL by exploiting the underlying shared patterns in chemical reactions as \textit{context} for pre-training, which effectively infers meaningful representations of common chemistry knowledge. Such contextual representations can then be utilized to support diverse downstream molecular tasks with minimum finetuning, such as affinity prediction and drug-drug interaction prediction. Extensive experimental results on MoleculeACE, ACNet, drug-drug interaction (DDI), and reaction type classification show that across all tested downstream tasks, REMO outperforms the standard baseline of single-molecule masked modeling used in current MRL. Remarkably, REMO is the pioneering deep learning model surpassing fingerprint-based methods in activity cliff benchmarks.