RT-DETRv2: Improved Baseline with Bag-of-Freebies for Real-Time Detection Transformer

In this report, we present RT-DETRv2, an improved Real-Time DEtection TRansformer (RT-DETR). RT-DETRv2 builds upon the previous state-of-the-art real-time detector, RT-DETR, and opens up a set of bag-of-freebies for flexibility and practicality, as well as optimizing the training strategy to achieve enhanced performance. To improve the flexibility, we suggest setting a distinct number of sampling points for features at different scales in the deformable attention to achieve selective multi-scale feature extraction by the decoder. To enhance practicality, we propose an optional discrete sampling operator to replace the grid_sample operator that is specific to RT-DETR compared to YOLOs. This removes the deployment constraints typically associated with DETRs. For the training strategy, we propose dynamic data augmentation and scale-adaptive hyperparameters customization to improve performance without loss of speed. Source code and pre-trained models will be available at https://github.com/lyuwenyu/RT-DETR.

Empowering AI drug discovery with explicit and implicit knowledge

Motivation: Recently, research on independently utilizing either explicit knowledge from knowledge graphs or implicit knowledge from biomedical literature for AI drug discovery has been growing rapidly. These approaches have greatly improved the prediction accuracy of AI models on multiple downstream tasks. However, integrating explicit and implicit knowledge independently hinders their understanding of molecules. Results: We propose DeepEIK, a unified deep learning framework that incorporates both explicit and implicit knowledge for AI drug discovery. We adopt feature fusion to process the multi-modal inputs, and leverage the attention mechanism to denoise the text information. Experiments show that DeepEIK significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods on crucial tasks in AI drug discovery including drug-target interaction prediction, drug property prediction and protein-protein interaction prediction. Further studies show that benefiting from explicit and implicit knowledge, our framework achieves a deeper understanding of molecules and shows promising potential in facilitating drug discovery applications.