Learning Task-Specific Antibody Representations via Function-Aware Masking
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arXiv:2605.16581v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Masked language modeling (MLM) is the standard objective for training protein language models, typically implemented by randomly masking individual...
arXiv:2606. 04154v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Antibodies neutralize foreign antigens by binding to specific surface regions called epitopes.
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.
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.
The paper introduces a flexible sampling technique for masked language models (MLMs) called stochastic beam search, which leverages MLMs’ efficiency in evaluating the pseudo‑perplexity of a sequence’s 1‑edit neighborhood. This method reframes generation as whole‑sequence evaluation, allowing guidance across multiple optimization objectives. Extensive in‑silico and in‑vitro tests on antibody therapeutics demonstrate that the sampling strategy significantly influences outcomes, highlighting the need for further research in this area.