Optimizing drug synergy prediction through categorical embeddings in Deep Neural Networks
Gonzalez Lastre, M.; Gonzalez de Prado Salas, P.; Guantes, R.
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Cancer treatments often lose effectiveness as tumors develop resistance to single-agent therapies. Combination treatments can overcome this limitation, but the overwhelming combinatorial space of drug-dose interactions makes exhaustive experimental testing impractical. Data-driven methods, such as Machine and deep learning, have emerged as promising tools to predict synergistic drug combinations. In this work, we systematically investigate the use of categorical embeddings within Deep Neural Networks to enhance drug synergy predictions. These learned and transferable encodings capture similarities between the elements of each category, demonstrating particular utility in scarce data scenarios.
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