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Mangal Prakash

11 accepted papers

2026

BioBO: Biology-informed Bayesian Optimization for Perturbation Design

ICLR 2026poster

Efficient design of genomic perturbation experiments is crucial for accelerating drug discovery and therapeutic target identification, yet exhaustive perturbation of the human genome remains infeasible due to the vast search space of potential genetic interactions and experimental constraints. Bayes…

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2026

GRAM-DTI: Adaptive Multimodal Representation Learning for Drug–Target Interaction Prediction

ICLR 2026poster

Drug target interaction (DTI) prediction is a cornerstone of computational drug discovery, enabling rational design, repurposing, and mechanistic insights. While deep learning has advanced DTI modeling, existing approaches primarily rely on SMILES–protein pairs and fail to exploit the rich multimoda…

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2025

Beyond Sequence: Impact of Geometric Context for RNA Property Prediction

ICLR 2025poster

Accurate prediction of RNA properties, such as stability and interactions, is crucial for advancing our understanding of biological processes and developing RNA-based therapeutics. RNA structures can be represented as 1D sequences, 2D topological graphs, or 3D all-atom models, each offering differen…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2025

DualEqui: A Dual-Space Hierarchical Equivariant Network for Large Biomolecules

NeurIPS 2025poster

Geometric graph neural networks (GNNs) that respect E(3) symmetries have achieved strong performance on small molecule modeling, but they face scalability and expressiveness challenges when applied to large biomolecules such as RNA and proteins. These systems require models that can simultaneously c…

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2025

Geometric Hyena Networks for Large-scale Equivariant Learning

ICML 2025spotlight

Processing global geometric context while preserving equivariance is crucial when modeling biological, chemical, and physical systems. Yet, this is challenging due to the computational demands of equivariance and global context at scale. Standard methods such as equivariant self-attention suffer fro…

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2025

HELM: Hierarchical Encoding for mRNA Language Modeling

ICLR 2025poster

Messenger RNA (mRNA) plays a crucial role in protein synthesis, with its codon structure directly impacting biological properties. While Language Models (LMs) have shown promise in analyzing biological sequences, existing approaches fail to account for the hierarchical nature of mRNA's codon structu…

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2025

InfoSEM: A Deep Generative Model with Informative Priors for Gene Regulatory Network Inference

ICML 2025poster

Inferring Gene Regulatory Networks (GRNs) from gene expression data is crucial for understanding biological processes. While supervised models are reported to achieve high performance for this task, they rely on costly ground truth (GT) labels and risk learning gene-specific biases—such as class imb…

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2025

TRIDENT: Tri-Modal Molecular Representation Learning with Taxonomic Annotations and Local Correspondence

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Molecular property prediction aims to learn representations that map chemical structures to functional properties. While multimodal learning has emerged as a powerful paradigm to learn molecular representations, prior works have largely overlooked textual and taxonomic information of molecules for r…

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2022

Interpretable Unsupervised Diversity Denoising and Artefact Removal

ICLR 2022spotlight

Image denoising and artefact removal are complex inverse problems admitting multiple valid solutions. Unsupervised diversity restoration, that is, obtaining a diverse set of possible restorations given a corrupted image, is important for ambiguity removal in many applications such as microscopy wher…

Cited by 29SourcePDFScholar
2021

Fully Unsupervised Diversity Denoising with Convolutional Variational Autoencoders

ICLR 2021poster

Deep Learning based methods have emerged as the indisputable leaders for virtually all image restoration tasks. Especially in the domain of microscopy images, various content-aware image restoration (CARE) approaches are now used to improve the interpretability of acquired data. Naturally, there are…

Cited by 63SourcePDFScholar
2020

A Primal-Dual Solver for Large-Scale Tracking-by-Assignment

AISTATS 2020poster

We propose a fast approximate solver for the combinatorial problem known as tracking-by-assignment, which we apply to cell tracking. The latter plays a key role in discovery in many life sciences, especially in cell and developmental biology. So far, in the most general setting this problem was addr…