arXiv AI By Violeta Basten-Romero, Rub\'en Mu\~noz-Tafalla, Anna Mar\'ia D\'iaz-Rovira, Bertran Miquel-Oliver, Isaac Filella-Merce, V\'ictor Guallar

Two-Stage Fine-Tuning for Protein Sequence Generation with Targeted Amino-Acid Composition

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arXiv:2606. 27939v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Protein language models are standard priors for biological sequence generation, but steering them toward explicit distributional design targets remains largely unexplored.

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