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PKGPT, an AI system, automates population pharmacokinetic (PopPK) model development in NONMEM, generating executable code. While improving efficiency, human oversight remains crucial for physiological plausibility and clinical interpretability.

Keywords:
NONMEMagentic AIhuman-in-the-looplarge language modelmodel automationmodel informed drug developmentpopulation pharmacokineticsrecursive self-correction

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  • Pharmacometrics
  • Artificial Intelligence in Drug Development
  • Computational Pharmacology

Background:

  • Population pharmacokinetic (PopPK) modeling in NONMEM is complex and expertise-dependent.
  • General large language models (LLMs) struggle to generate functional NONMEM code.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Introduce PKGPT, a recursive agentic LLM system for automating NONMEM PopPK model development.
  • Benchmark PKGPT's performance against human expert models.

Main Methods:

  • PKGPT utilizes Google's Gemini 3.0 Flash with phase-specific expert-agent prompts.
  • The system iteratively executes NONMEM, parses outputs, and refines control streams across five phases.
  • Evaluated on warfarin, theophylline, and tobramycin datasets, compared against human expert models.

Main Results:

  • PKGPT generated executable, converging NONMEM models for all datasets.
  • Performance varied: expert achieved lower OFV for warfarin; PKGPT parameter estimates were close for theophylline.
  • PKGPT showed physiological implausibility in tobramycin V2 estimates and missed established covariates.

Conclusions:

  • PKGPT significantly enhances NONMEM code generation robustness and usability over naive LLM prompting.
  • The system accelerates model drafting and iterative refinement.
  • Human-in-the-loop oversight is necessary for ensuring physiological plausibility and clinical interpretability.