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title: "EMNLP2025 Keynote: Heng Ji"
source: https://www.jemoka.com/posts/kbhemnlp2025_keynote_heng_ji/
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Motivation: drug discovery is extremely slow and expensive; mostly modulating previous iterations of work.
Principles of Drug Discovery observation: acquire/fuse knowledge from multiple data modalities (sequence, stricture, etc.) think: critically generating actually new hypothesis &mdash; allowing iteratively allowing LMs to code-switch between moladities (i.e. fuse different modalities together in the most uniform way) LM as a heuristic helps prune down search space quickly.
