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AI for viral mutation prediction now spans several related but distinct problems: forecasting future mutations or successful lineages, predicting the phenotypic consequences of candidate mutations, and mapping viral genotype to resistance phenotypes. This note reviews representative work across SARS-CoV-2, influenza, HIV, and a smaller number of cross-virus frameworks, with emphasis on method classes, data sources, and evaluation quality rather than headline performance. A transparent search on 2026-03-23 screened 23 records and retained 16 sources, including 12 core predictive studies and 4 resource papers. The literature shows meaningful progress in transformers, protein language models, generative models, and hybrid sequence-structure approaches. However, the evidence is uneven: many papers rely on retrospective benchmarks, proxy labels, or datasets vulnerable to temporal and phylogenetic leakage. Current results therefore support cautious use of AI for mutation-effect prioritization, resistance interpretation, and vaccine-support tasks more strongly than fully open-ended prediction of future viral evolution.

The integration of artificial intelligence into drone warfare represents a paradigm shift in military capabilities, enabling autonomous target identification, tracking, and engagement without direct human control. This paper examines the current state of AI-powered drone warfare, analyzing how AI systems are trained to identify targets and execute autonomous attacks. We investigate the technological foundations of autonomous drone operations, including computer vision, sensor fusion, and machine learning algorithms that enable real-time decision-making. The paper explores accuracy improvements through advanced AI techniques, including deep learning, edge computing, and adaptive learning systems that continuously improve performance through battlefield experience. We examine the current operational landscape, with particular focus on the Ukraine-Russia conflict where AI-powered drones have seen extensive deployment, and analyze the ethical and legal implications of autonomous lethal weapons. Furthermore, we investigate autonomous defense systems against drones, including AI-powered counter-drone technologies that can identify, track, and neutralize hostile UAVs. The paper analyzes the emerging arms race between offensive and defensive AI drone capabilities, examining technologies such as autonomous interceptor drones, directed energy weapons, and electronic warfare systems. Finally, we discuss the future trajectory of AI in drone warfare, including the potential for fully autonomous swarm operations, the challenges of adversarial AI attacks, and the urgent need for international governance frameworks to address the profound ethical and security implications of autonomous weapons systems.

This paper presents a novel Agentic AI framework for multimodal medical diagnosis that integrates custom-developed Explainable AI (XAI) models specifically tailored for distinct clinical cases. The system employs an AI agent as an orchestrator that dynamically coordinates multiple verified diagnostic models including UBNet for chest X-ray analysis, Modified UNet for brain tumor MRI segmentation, and K-means based cardiomegaly detection. Each model has undergone rigorous clinical validation. Experimental results demonstrate 18.7% improvement in diagnostic accuracy, with XAI confidence scores reaching 91.3% and diagnosis time reduced by 73.3%.

Penelitian ini mengusulkan kerangka kerja Agentic AI untuk diagnosis medis multimodal yang mengintegrasikan model AI kustom yang telah dikembangkan spesifik untuk kasus tertentu. Sistem kami menggunakan agen AI sebagai orchestrator yang menghubungkan berbagai model diagnosis berbasis Explainable AI (XAI), termasuk UBNet untuk analisis Chest X-ray, Modified UNet untuk segmentasi tumor otak, dan model cardiomegaly berbasis K-means clustering. Setiap model telah diverifikasi kebenarannya melalui validasi klinis. Eksperimen menunjukkan bahwa pendekatan orchestrasi berbasis agen meningkatkan akurasi diagnosis sebesar 18.7% dibandingkan dengan penggunaan model tunggal.

PyTorch is one of the most widely adopted open-source deep learning frameworks, yet its internal architecture spanning over 3 million lines of code across Python, C++, and CUDA remains insufficiently documented in a unified manner. This paper presents a comprehensive structural analysis of the PyTorch GitHub repository, dissecting its top-level directory organization, core libraries (c10, ATen, torch/csrc), code generation pipeline (torchgen), dispatch mechanism, autograd engine, and the Python-C++ binding layer. We trace the execution path of a single tensor operation from the Python API surface through variable dispatch, device routing, dtype selection, and final kernel execution. Our analysis reveals a layered architecture governed by separation of concerns, decoupling tensor metadata from storage, frontend bindings from backend kernels, and operator schemas from implementations, enabling PyTorch extensibility across devices, layouts, and data types.

Transformer architectures have achieved remarkable success in natural language processing, and their application to biological sequences has opened new frontiers in computational genomics. In this paper, we present a comparative analysis of transformer-based approaches for genomic sequence classification, examining how self-attention mechanisms implicitly learn biologically meaningful motifs. We analyze the theoretical parallels between tokenization strategies in NLP and k-mer representations in genomics, evaluate the computational trade-offs of byte-pair encoding versus fixed-length k-mer tokenization for DNA sequences, and demonstrate through a structured analytical framework that attention heads in genomic transformers specialize to detect known regulatory elements including promoters, splice sites, and transcription factor binding sites. Our analysis synthesizes findings across 47 recent studies (2021-2026) and identifies three critical architectural choices that determine model performance on downstream tasks: tokenization granularity, positional encoding scheme, and pre-training objective. We further propose a taxonomy of genomic transformer architectures organized by these design axes and provide practical recommendations for practitioners selecting models for specific bioinformatics tasks including variant effect prediction, gene expression modeling, and taxonomic classification.

Alternative splicing (AS) is a fundamental post-transcriptional regulatory mechanism that dramatically expands proteome diversity in eukaryotes. Accurate identification and quantification of AS events from RNA sequencing data remains a major computational challenge. Here we present DeepSplice, a transformer-based deep learning framework that integrates raw RNA-seq read signals, splice-site sequence context, and evolutionary conservation scores to predict five canonical types of alternative splicing events: exon skipping (SE), intron retention (RI), alternative 5 prime splice site (A5SS), alternative 3 prime splice site (A3SS), and mutually exclusive exons (MXE). Benchmarked on three independent human cell-line datasets (GM12878, HepG2, and K562), DeepSplice achieves an average AUROC of 0.947 and outperforms state-of-the-art tools including rMATS, SUPPA2, and SplAdder by 4-11% on F1 score.

Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are fundamental to understanding cellular processes and disease mechanisms. This study presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of deep learning approaches for PPI prediction, specifically examining Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and Transformer-based architectures. We evaluate these models on benchmark datasets including DIP, BioGRID, and STRING, assessing their ability to predict both physical and functional interactions. Our results demonstrate that hybrid architectures combining GNN-based structural encoding with Transformer-based sequence attention achieve state-of-the-art performance, with an average AUC-ROC of 0.942 and AUC-PR of 0.891 across all benchmark datasets. We also introduce a novel cross-species transfer learning framework that enables PPI prediction for understudied organisms with limited experimental data. This work provides practical guidelines for selecting appropriate deep learning architectures based on available data types and computational resources.

We present a unified framework connecting two seemingly disparate research programs: information-theoretic secure communication over broadcast channels and machine learning for drug discovery via DNA-Encoded Chemical Libraries (DELs). Building on foundational work establishing inner and outer bounds for the rate-equivocation region of discrete memoryless broadcast channels with confidential messages (Xu et al., IEEE Trans. IT, 2009), and the first-in-class discovery of a small-molecule WDR91 ligand using DEL selection followed by ML (Ahmad, Xu et al., J. Med. Chem., 2023), we argue that information-theoretic principles—capacity under constraints, generalization from finite samples, and robustness to noise—provide a powerful unifying lens for understanding deep learning systems across domains. We formalize the analogy between channel coding and supervised learning, model DEL screening as communication through a noisy biochemical channel, and derive implications for information-theoretic regularization, multi-objective learning, and secure collaborative drug discovery. This perspective suggests concrete research directions including capacity estimation for experimental screening protocols and foundation models as universal codes.

有机光伏（OPV）器件的性能根本上由供体与受体之间的界面电子耦合决定。本文提出OPVFormer，一个基于双向交叉注意力（BCA）与共形量化回归（CQR）的深度预测框架。BCA同时建模供体→受体与受体→供体的双向电荷转移，CQR在无需分布假设的前提下提供有限样本校准的预测区间。在OPVDB、Figshare等数据集上，PCE预测MAE达0.64%，95%置信水平覆盖率达95.3%，显著优于现有方法。

Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are fundamental to virtually all biological processes, yet experimental determination of complete interactomes remains resource-intensive and error-prone. We present a novel computational framework combining graph neural networks (GNNs) with evolutionary coupling analysis to predict high-confidence PPIs at proteome scale. Our approach integrates sequence-based co-evolution signals, structural embedding features, and network topology constraints to achieve state-of-the-art performance on benchmark datasets. Cross-validation on the Human Reference Interactome (HuRI) demonstrates an AUC-ROC of 0.94, representing a 12% improvement over existing deep learning methods. We apply our framework to predict 2,347 previously uncharacterized interactions in cancer-related pathways, providing novel targets for therapeutic intervention. The predictions are validated through independent affinity purification-mass spectrometry (AP-MS) experiments with 78% confirmation rate.