Quantum Neural Network applications to Protein Binding Affinity Predictions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03446v1
• Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:47:15 GMT
• Title: Quantum Neural Network applications to Protein Binding Affinity Predictions
• Authors: Erico Souza Teixeira, Lucas Barros Fernandes, Yara Rodrigues Inácio,
• Abstract summary: Quantum neural networks (QNNs) have gained traction as a research focus.<n>This study proposes thirty variations of multilayer perceptron-based quantum neural networks.<n>Results indicate that the quantum models achieved approximately 20% higher accuracy on one unseen dataset.
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• Abstract: Binding energy is a fundamental thermodynamic property that governs molecular interactions, playing a crucial role in fields such as healthcare and the natural sciences. It is particularly relevant in drug development, vaccine design, and other biomedical applications. Over the years, various methods have been developed to estimate protein binding energy, ranging from experimental techniques to computational approaches, with machine learning making significant contributions to this field. Although classical computing has demonstrated strong results in constructing predictive models, the variation of quantum computing for machine learning has emerged as a promising alternative. Quantum neural networks (QNNs) have gained traction as a research focus, raising the question of their potential advantages in predicting binding energies. To investigate this potential, this study explored the feasibility of QNNs for this task by proposing thirty variations of multilayer perceptron-based quantum neural networks. These variations span three distinct architectures, each incorporating ten different quantum circuits to configure their quantum layers. The performance of these quantum models was compared with that of a state-of-the-art classical multilayer perceptron-based artificial neural network, evaluating both accuracy and training time. A primary dataset was used for training, while two additional datasets containing entirely unseen samples were employed for testing. Results indicate that the quantum models achieved approximately 20% higher accuracy on one unseen dataset, although their accuracy was lower on the other datasets. Notably, quantum models exhibited training times several orders of magnitude shorter than their classical counterparts, highlighting their potential for efficient protein binding energy prediction.

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