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Generative AI for Drug Discovery: GPT-2 and LSTM Models for Designing EGFR Inhibitors

This work generates new EGFR inhibitor candidates by fine-tuning a GPT-2 model on roughly 500,000 molecules from the ChEMBL database and benchmarking it against an LSTM network trained on the same dataset, evaluating generated compounds for validity, distinctiveness, and novelty, filtering them by Lipinski's rule of five, synthetic accessibility, and drug-likeness scores, and docking selected candidates against EGFR (PDB ID: 1M17) to assess binding affinity, finding that GPT-2 excels at producing structurally varied molecules while the LSTM generates a larger fraction of chemically valid compounds, with many candidates showing good binding interactions with EGFR.