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AMix-1: A Pathway to Test-Time Scalable Protein Foundation Model

arXiv:2507. 08920v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce AMix-1, a powerful protein foundation model built on Bayesian Flow Networks and empowered by a systematic training methodology, encompassing pretraining scaling laws, emergent capability analysis, in-context learning mechanism, and test-time scaling algorithm.

arXiv AI
Sep 2

SymFold: Synergizing Evolutionary and Structural Priors for Accurate Protein Inverse Folding

SymFold introduces a symmetric dual‑path architecture that combines protein language models (PLMs) and multimodal protein language models (MPLMs) to iteratively guide protein sequence generation for inverse folding. By leveraging pretrained sequence evolution knowledge from PLMs and structural knowledge from MPLMs, the method improves upon the traditional serial pipeline where structure encoders produce coarse sequences refined by PLMs. Experiments on standard inverse‑folding benchmarks show state‑of‑the‑art performance, and ablation studies confirm the effectiveness of the symmetric design.

By Handong Wang, Jiaxin Qi, Baisheng Lai, Jianqiang Huang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 28

Chamaileon: Cross-Context Binder Design with Contextualized Modeling and Mixed Sampling

arXiv:2607. 23518v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid evolution of generative models has unlocked new potentials in protein binder design, a pivotal task in structural biology, by facilitating end-to-end generation via joint sequence-structure modeling or hallucination.

By Hengyuan Cao, Shizhuo Cheng, Mingxuan Liu, Weicheng Huang, Yunhong Lu, Chenxi Cai, Yan Zhang, Min Zhang
arXiv AI
3d ago

Structure-aware Reinforcement Learning for Protein Directed Evolution

The paper introduces StructEvo, a structure-aware reinforcement learning framework designed to improve protein directed evolution. By using a delta-structure fusion encoder to approximate mutant structure features and a hierarchical action network aligned with protein structure, the method navigates the vast mutation space more effectively. StructEvo outperforms existing machine learning-assisted directed evolution techniques by 9.2% and 16.3% on two benchmarks and uncovers an experimentally validated epistasis pattern in GFP, underscoring the value of structural guidance.

By Zikun Nie, Suyuan Zhao, Yizhen Luo, Siqi Fan, Zaiqing Nie
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30

Inference-time optimization for experiment-grounded protein ensemble generation

arXiv:2602. 24007v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Protein function relies on dynamic conformational ensembles, yet current generative models like AlphaFold3 often fail to produce ensembles that match experimental data.

By Advaith Maddipatla, Anar Rzayev, Marco Pegoraro, Martin Pacesa, Paul Schanda, Ailie Marx, Sanketh Vedula, Alex M. Bronstein