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 \[[Inference Model](https://huggingface.co/SaeedLab/TITAN-BBB)\] | \[[Cite](#citation)\]
 
 ## Abstract
-The blood-brain barrier (BBB) restricts most compounds from entering the brain, making BBB permeability prediction crucial for drug discovery. Experimental assays are costly and limited, motivating computational approaches. While machine learning has shown promise, combining chemical descriptors with deep learning embeddings remains underexplored. Here, we introduce TITAN-BBB, a multi-modal architecture that combines tabular, image, and text-based features via attention mechanism. To evaluate, we aggregated multiple literature sources to create the largest BBB permeability dataset to date, enabling robust training for both classification and regression tasks. Our results demonstrate that TITAN-BBB achieves 86.5% of balanced accuracy on classification tasks and 0.436 of mean absolute error for regression. Our approach also outperforms state-of-the-art models in both classification and regression performance, demonstrating the benefits of combining deep and domain-specific representations.
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+Computational prediction of blood-brain barrier (BBB) permeability has emerged as a vital alternative to traditional experimental assays, which are often resource-intensive and low-throughput to meet the demands of early-stage drug discovery. While early machine learning approaches have shown promise, integration of traditional chemical descriptors with deep learning embeddings remains an underexplored frontier. In this paper, we introduce *TITAN-BBB*, a multi-modal deep-learning architecture that  utilizes  tabular, image, and text-based features and combines them using attention mechanisms. To evaluate, we aggregated multiple literature sources to create the largest BBB permeability dataset to date, enabling robust training for both classification and regression tasks. Our results demonstrate that TITAN-BBB achieves 86.5% of balanced accuracy on classification tasks and 0.436 of mean absolute error for regression, outperforming the state-of-the-art by 3.1 percentage points in balanced accuracy and reducing the regression error by 20%. Our approach also outperforms state-of-the-art models in both classification and regression performance, demonstrating the benefits of combining deep and domain-specific representations. The source code is publicly available [here](https://github.com/pcdslab/TITAN-BBB). The inference-ready model is hosted on [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/SaeedLab/TITAN-BBB), and the aggregated BBB permeability datasets are available [here](https://huggingface.co/datasets/SaeedLab/BBBP).
 ## Dataset Details
 
 This dataset is an aggregation of different literature sources (please see the paper to check the references).