Table 4 Our guidelines for fairer and comprehensive benchmarks of collaborative-filtering-based drug repurposing models. MF: matrix factorization. NN: neural network. GB: graph-based.

From: Comprehensive evaluation of pure and hybrid collaborative filtering in drug repurposing

Topic

Questions

Our recommendation

Evaluation of models

RQ1. Which metric should the model optimize for?

NS-AUC

RQ2. Which dataset should the model be evaluated on?

PREDICT (private) or DNdataset

Future models

RQ3. Should a method be pair- or matrix-oriented?

Pair-oriented

RQ4. Which type of algorithms (MF, NN, GB) is the most promising?

Graph-based