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Evaluation of Open-Source LLMs for Malaria Drug Discovery Using Malaria-Instruct Dataset

Researchers introduced Malaria-Instruct, a curated dataset for malaria virtual screening, and systematically evaluated five open-source LLMs against classical ML models on out-of-distribution data. The study benchmarks models including Gemma-2 and LlaSMol-Mistral-7B for drug discovery tasks.

Source: arXiv · arxiv.org Published 2026-08-18T20:12:22+00:00 Detected 2026-08-24T05:19:56+00:00
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Researchers introduced Malaria-Instruct, a curated dataset for malaria virtual screening, and systematically evaluated five open-source LLMs against classical ML models on out-of-distribution data. The study benchmarks models including Gemma-2 and LlaSMol-Mistral-7B for drug discovery tasks.

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We introduce Malaria-Instruct, a curated instruction-following dataset derived from the ChEMBL Legacy Malaria corpus for Malaria virtual screening, and conduct a systematic evaluation of five open-source LLMs; Gemma-2 2B/9B, TxGemma-2B/9B, and LlaSMol-Mistral-7B, on a rigorous out-of-distribution data split....

This evaluation highlights the trade-offs in performance, scale, and resource utility of open-source LLMs in a critical biomedical application. It provides insights into how these models compare to traditional methods in malaria drug discovery.

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