OpenADMET competition: bigger AI models not always better for drug metabolism
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Results from the OpenADMET competition indicate that larger AI models do not consistently outperform smaller ones in predicting drug metabolism. This finding challenges the prevailing assumption that scale always improves performance in biomedical AI.
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