PatternsPub Date : 2026-06-12DOI: 10.1016/j.patter.2026.101566
Bruce S Kristal, Melissa D McCradden, Jeyan Thiyagalingam, Zijun Zhang, Carole Goble
{"title":"Five views on the foundations of data science.","authors":"Bruce S Kristal, Melissa D McCradden, Jeyan Thiyagalingam, Zijun Zhang, Carole Goble","doi":"10.1016/j.patter.2026.101566","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.patter.2026.101566","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this People of Data piece, our advisory board members select and discuss papers that they consider to be foundational to data science.</p>","PeriodicalId":36242,"journal":{"name":"Patterns","volume":"7 6","pages":"101566"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2026-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13280674/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148296636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PatternsPub Date : 2026-06-11eCollection Date: 2026-07-10DOI: 10.1016/j.patter.2026.101586
Wayne B Hayes, Kimia Yazdani, S M A Nahian, Ezra Alemu
{"title":"Graphlet- and motif-based link prediction in large networks.","authors":"Wayne B Hayes, Kimia Yazdani, S M A Nahian, Ezra Alemu","doi":"10.1016/j.patter.2026.101586","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.patter.2026.101586","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Link prediction is important across biological, social, and technological networks, but many methods either require domain-specific node attributes, do not scale to large graphs, or miss higher-order topology. We present BLANT-Predict, a topology-only framework that uses sampled graphlets and orbit-pair frequencies to rank likely missing edges. Across 12 real-world networks (up to about 1 million nodes and 3 million edges), we compare against 13 baseline methods and observe higher precision with strong scalability. Beyond standard <i>k</i>-fold cross-validation, we evaluate predictions against future out-of-sample network snapshots to better reflect real deployment. BLANT-Predict maintains superior precision in these future tests, indicating practical value for predicting previously unobserved links.</p>","PeriodicalId":36242,"journal":{"name":"Patterns","volume":"7 7","pages":"101586"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2026-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13366520/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148449707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SelfCheck-Eval: A multi-module framework for zero-resource hallucination detection in large language models.","authors":"Diyana Muhammed, Giusy Giulia Tuccari, Gollam Rabby, Sören Auer, Sahar Vahdati","doi":"10.1016/j.patter.2026.101569","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.patter.2026.101569","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Large language models (LLMs) have achieved considerable progress across diverse applications, yet their tendency to generate incorrect or fabricated content, commonly termed hallucinations, remains a fundamental obstacle to reliable deployment in high-stakes domains. Existing detection benchmarks are confined to general-knowledge settings, leaving specialized fields, where accuracy is important, underexplored. To address this gap, we introduce the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME) Math Hallucination dataset, a benchmark for evaluating mathematical reasoning hallucinations, and propose SelfCheck-Eval, an LLM-agnostic, black-box detection framework compatible with open- and closed-source LLMs. The framework integrates three independent modules, semantic, specialized detection, and contextual consistency, into a suitable architecture. Systematic evaluation reveals a noticeable performance gap: existing methods perform well on biographical content but struggle with mathematical reasoning, a deficit that continues across natural language inference (NLI) fine-tuning, preference learning, and process supervision paradigms. These findings expose fundamental limitations of current approaches and motivate the development of specialized, black-box-compatible methods for trustworthy LLM deployment.</p>","PeriodicalId":36242,"journal":{"name":"Patterns","volume":"7 6","pages":"101569"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2026-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13280721/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148296763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PatternsPub Date : 2026-05-29eCollection Date: 2026-07-10DOI: 10.1016/j.patter.2026.101571
Zexi Li, Lingzhi Gao, Dongqi Cai, Nicholas D Lane, Chao Wu
{"title":"Tina: A diffusion neural network for generating personalized AI models from text prompts.","authors":"Zexi Li, Lingzhi Gao, Dongqi Cai, Nicholas D Lane, Chao Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.patter.2026.101571","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.patter.2026.101571","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has advanced rapidly across modalities, from text-to-text large language models to text-to-image and text-to-video diffusion models. Here, we investigate text-to-model generation: whether GenAI can map semantic task descriptions to functional neural network parameters for personalized classification. We present Tina, a text-conditioned neural network diffusion model that leverages a diffusion transformer conditioned on contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP)-embedded task descriptions. Tina generates high-quality personalized classifiers across domains, including natural and medical images, from text prompts at inference time. We demonstrate that Tina achieves both in-distribution and out-of-distribution personalization, supports zero-shot/few-shot image prompts, generalizes to unseen classes, and scales to more complex tasks. Tina establishes text-to-model GenAI as a promising paradigm for on-demand personalization and offers a new channel for human-AI interaction through natural-language instructions.</p>","PeriodicalId":36242,"journal":{"name":"Patterns","volume":"7 7","pages":"101571"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13366521/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148449714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PatternsPub Date : 2026-05-28eCollection Date: 2026-07-10DOI: 10.1016/j.patter.2026.101567
Guoxin Cao, Jian Ouyang, Xiangyi Xiong, Changle Liu, Yi Zhang, Siqi Yang, Tieliu Shi, Jun Wu
{"title":"EnzymeHunter: Achieving fine-grained enzyme function prediction with a hierarchically aware contrastive learning framework.","authors":"Guoxin Cao, Jian Ouyang, Xiangyi Xiong, Changle Liu, Yi Zhang, Siqi Yang, Tieliu Shi, Jun Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.patter.2026.101567","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.patter.2026.101567","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Accurate enzyme function annotation is a grand challenge due to the vast number of uncharacterized proteins and the difficulty of distinguishing subtle functions. We introduce EnzymeHunter, a deep-learning framework that achieves fine-grained prediction via a hierarchically aware contrastive learning strategy. By integrating sequence and structural information and using the Enzyme Commission (EC) hierarchy to guide its loss function, our model learns a functionally coherent embedding space where distances reflect precise levels of catalytic similarity. EnzymeHunter significantly outperforms state-of-the-art models, particularly in challenging scenarios, achieving fine-grained precision down to the fourth EC level, maintaining robust performance in low-homology cases, and accurately predicting rare enzyme classes. In a proteome-wide application to <i>Thermus thermophilus</i>, EnzymeHunter discovered novel catalytic functions, one of which was subsequently validated by an independent UniProt update. Furthermore, our model is interpretable, with predictions guided by learned attention on mechanistically critical functional sites.</p>","PeriodicalId":36242,"journal":{"name":"Patterns","volume":"7 7","pages":"101567"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13366525/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148449615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PatternsPub Date : 2026-05-27eCollection Date: 2026-06-12DOI: 10.1016/j.patter.2026.101570
Wang Bo, Along He, Ting Xue, Yue Zhang, Yi Xiao, Shiyuan Liu, Shaohua Kevin Zhou
{"title":"DuoMod-Net: Logarithmic balancing and geometric refinement for imbalanced semi-supervised medical image segmentation.","authors":"Wang Bo, Along He, Ting Xue, Yue Zhang, Yi Xiao, Shiyuan Liu, Shaohua Kevin Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.patter.2026.101570","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.patter.2026.101570","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Class imbalance in semi-supervised medical image segmentation poses a dual challenge: it not only compromises feature learning for tail classes but also introduces significant bias in loss gradients toward the predominant background class. To address these challenges, we introduce duo-component modulation network (DuoMod-Net), a synergistic learning framework integrating two specialized components. The first component, relative logarithmic modulation (RLM), addresses the dominant gradient bias by decoupling the background magnitude from foreground balancing. It establishes the background as a neutral pivot and then applies a relative, logarithmic scaling anchored by robust percentiles to preserve the dynamic range among the foreground organs. Concurrently, the second component, disagreement-driven adaptive feature refinement (DAFR), functions as a geometric regularization mechanism. It leverages intrinsic inter-model disagreement to selectively expand the feature space during training, forcing the decision boundary to recede. This expansion is removed at inference, establishing a safety margin that enhances detection reliability. Extensive validation across varying data regimes (5%, 10%, and 20%) demonstrates that DuoMod-Net yields substantial improvements on tail classes, increases detection reliability by minimizing catastrophic failures, and maintains robust zero-shot generalization on unseen datasets.</p>","PeriodicalId":36242,"journal":{"name":"Patterns","volume":"7 6","pages":"101570"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13280726/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148296658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PatternsPub Date : 2026-05-22eCollection Date: 2026-07-10DOI: 10.1016/j.patter.2026.101562
Vivek Sehra, Benjamin Ruf, Gabriel Duval, Sepideh Babaei, Manfred Claassen
{"title":"SHIELD: A weakly supervised graph attention neural network for decoding disease-relevant cell-cell interactions.","authors":"Vivek Sehra, Benjamin Ruf, Gabriel Duval, Sepideh Babaei, Manfred Claassen","doi":"10.1016/j.patter.2026.101562","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.patter.2026.101562","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Multiplexed tissue imaging enables detailed study of cell-cell interactions in disease, yet systematic, interpretable, and supervised computational methods for inferring such interactions remain scarce. We present SHIELD (spatially enhanced immune landscape decoding), a graph attention network framework that quantifies disease-relevant cell-cell interactions through learned attention scores, without relying on prior biological assumptions such as ligand-receptor databases. Validated across three multiplexed tissue imaging datasets-hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), colorectal cancer (CRC), and type 1 diabetes (T1D)-SHIELD identifies rare mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cell-macrophage interactions in HCC, suppressive CD8<sup>+</sup> T cell-macrophage interactions enriched in CRC non-responders, and β cell interactions with cytotoxic and helper T cells across T1D disease stages. In all contexts, SHIELD reconstructs known and biologically meaningful interactions, offering a robust, interpretable tool for spatial tissue analysis and data-driven mechanistic discovery.</p>","PeriodicalId":36242,"journal":{"name":"Patterns","volume":"7 7","pages":"101562"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13366524/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148449672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PatternsPub Date : 2026-05-20eCollection Date: 2026-07-10DOI: 10.1016/j.patter.2026.101561
Chiara Rodella, Thomas Lemmin
{"title":"H3BERTa: A CDR-H3-specific language model for antibody repertoire analysis.","authors":"Chiara Rodella, Thomas Lemmin","doi":"10.1016/j.patter.2026.101561","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.patter.2026.101561","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Antibodies are central to immune defense and therapeutic design, yet predicting functional sequences remains challenging. Deep learning models trained on full variable regions often struggle due to sparse experimental data, signal dilution from conserved framework residues, and extreme diversity of hypervariable loops. The heavy-chain complementarity-determining region 3 (CDR-H3) is the most variable segment, shaping antigen specificity and immune diversity. Here, we present H3BERTa, a language model trained solely on CDR-H3 sequences to assess the extent of biological information encoded by this region. H3BERTa embeddings recapitulate immunologically relevant features, including J-gene usage, inferred B cell maturation state, and antigen binding. Pseudo-perplexity profiles enable repertoire analysis, distinguishing healthy from human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-derived sequences and suggesting measurable immune response signatures. These embeddings support classifiers for broadly neutralizing antibodies using limited labeled data, highlighting utility for antibody discovery. CDR-H3 alone encodes a rich immunological signal, which H3BERTa captures, offering a focused tool for repertoire analysis and antibody engineering.</p>","PeriodicalId":36242,"journal":{"name":"Patterns","volume":"7 7","pages":"101561"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13366522/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148449698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PatternsPub Date : 2026-05-19eCollection Date: 2026-06-12DOI: 10.1016/j.patter.2026.101564
Guanglong Sun, Ning Huang, Hongwei Yan, Jun Zhou, Qian Li, Bo Lei, Yi Zhong, Liyuan Wang
{"title":"Spacing effect improves generalization in biological and artificial systems.","authors":"Guanglong Sun, Ning Huang, Hongwei Yan, Jun Zhou, Qian Li, Bo Lei, Yi Zhong, Liyuan Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.patter.2026.101564","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.patter.2026.101564","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Generalization is a fundamental criterion for evaluating learning effectiveness, a domain where biological intelligence excels yet artificial intelligence faces challenges. In biological learning and memory, the well-documented spacing effect shows that appropriately spaced intervals between learning trials significantly improve behavioral performance. While multiple theories have been proposed to explain its underlying mechanisms, one compelling hypothesis is that spaced training promotes integration of input and innate variations, thereby enhancing generalization to novel but related scenarios. Here, we examine this hypothesis by introducing a bio-inspired spacing effect into artificial neural networks, integrating input and innate variations across spaced intervals at neuronal, synaptic, and network levels. These spaced ensemble strategies yield significant performance gains across benchmark datasets and network architectures. Biological experiments on <i>Drosophila</i> further validate the complementary effect of appropriate variations and spaced intervals in improving generalization, which together reveal a convergent computational principle of biological learning and machine learning.</p>","PeriodicalId":36242,"journal":{"name":"Patterns","volume":"7 6","pages":"101564"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13280723/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148296685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PatternsPub Date : 2026-05-19eCollection Date: 2026-08-14DOI: 10.1016/j.patter.2026.101563
Nand Chandravadia, Nabil Imam
{"title":"Neural rhythms as priors of speech computations.","authors":"Nand Chandravadia, Nabil Imam","doi":"10.1016/j.patter.2026.101563","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.patter.2026.101563","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Endogenous rhythms of auditory neural circuits have a striking resemblance to the temporal modulations of incoming speech signals. Here, we show that these rhythms may serve as priors for speech recognition, encoding knowledge of speech structure in the dynamics of network computations. In a network of coupled oscillators, we find that speech is readily identified when characteristic frequencies of the oscillators match low-frequency circuit rhythms in the auditory cortex. When signal and circuit rhythms are mismatched, speech identification is impaired. Compared to a baseline recurrent neural network without intrinsic oscillations, the coupled oscillatory network has significantly higher performance in speech recognition across languages but not in the recognition of signals that lack speech-like structure, such as urban sounds. Our results suggest a central computational role of brain rhythms in speech processing.</p>","PeriodicalId":36242,"journal":{"name":"Patterns","volume":"7 8","pages":"101563"},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13494615/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148799076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}