Accurate ranking of antibody candidates according to their binding affinity is essential for therapeutic antibody discovery. However, existing methods treat affinity comparisons independently and ignore the contextual information encoded in other labeled comparisons, limiting their ability to capture antigen-specific binding landscapes.
arXiv:2607. 05846v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate ranking of antibody candidates according to their binding affinity is essential for therapeutic antibody discovery.
By Zhiyuan Chen, Jing Hu, Junzhe Wang, Yueyang Huang, Xinyi Yang, Zhaoyang Wang, Feng Zhu
arXiv:2603. 10302v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A plethora of protein language models have been released in recent years.
By Calvin McCarter, Nick Bhattacharya, Sebastian W. Ober, Hunter Elliott
Antibodies are essential proteins that play a central role in immune recognition by binding specific antigen molecules. Although recent protein language models have enabled progress in single-chain protein modeling and generation, they often fall short in antigen-specific antibody design, where effective modeling requires explicit pairing between antibody and antigen, particularly at the epitope level.
arXiv:2607. 20057v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Antibodies are essential proteins that play a central role in immune recognition by binding specific antigen molecules.
By Xiaoliang Shi, Zichen Wang, Runze Ma, Zhongyue Zhang, Shuangjia Zheng
arXiv:2606. 07690v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Finetuning data selection requires balancing two competing goals: selecting examples that improve the downstream objective, and doing so without repeatedly finetuning models.
By Ning Wang, Zhengxin Zhang, Maosen Tang, Yitang Gao, Claire Cardie, Sainyam Galhotra
arXiv:2603. 13431v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Computational antibody design has seen rapid methodological progress, with dozens of deep generative methods proposed in the past three years, yet the field lacks a standardized benchmark for fair comparison and model development.
By Mansoor Ahmed, Nadeem Taj, Imdad Ullah Khan, Hemanth Venkateswara, Murray Patterson
arXiv:2606. 04154v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Antibodies neutralize foreign antigens by binding to specific surface regions called epitopes.
By Mansoor Ahmed, Huirong Chai, Haoxin Wang, Hemanth Venkateswara, Murray Patterson
arXiv:2605. 21610v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Antibody design methods condition on antigen structure to generate complementarity-determining regions (CDR), yet a systematic evaluation of baseline methods reveals that they largely ignore the antigen input.
By Mansoor Ahmed, Murray Patterson
Protein language models (PLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for controllable biomolecular design, yet their post-training adaptation typically relies on costly wet-lab validation or curated preference datasets. To overcome this supervision bottleneck, we introduce unsupervised reward optimization of PLMs, a comprehensive framework for steerable protein generation without ground-truth labels.
arXiv:2606. 18961v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Protein language models (PLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for controllable biomolecular design, yet their post-training adaptation typically relies on costly wet-lab validation or curated preference datasets.
By Lanqing Li, Shentong Mo, Yang Yu, Pheng-Ann Heng
arXiv:2606. 02386v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Protein language models (PLMs) are passive oracles: they generate sequences in a single forward pass with no mechanism to consult external biophysical feedback or redirect generation when a candidate violates thermodynamic or structural constraints.
By Sahil Rahman, Maxx Richard Rahman