Summary of Alignab: Pareto-optimal Energy Alignment For Designing Nature-like Antibodies, by Yibo Wen et al.
AlignAb: Pareto-Optimal Energy Alignment for Designing Nature-Like Antibodies
by Yibo Wen, Chenwei Xu, Jerry Yao-Chieh Hu, Han Liu
First submitted to arxiv on: 30 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This framework for training deep learning models specializes in co-designing antibody sequences and structures. The approach involves three stages: pre-training a language model using millions of antibody sequence data, employing learned representations to guide the training of a diffusion model for joint optimization over sequence and structure, and optimizing the model to favor antibodies with low repulsion and high attraction to the antigen binding site. To mitigate conflicting energy preferences, the framework extends AbDPO (Antibody Direct Preference Optimization) to guide the model towards Pareto optimality under multiple energy-based alignment objectives. The proposed methods achieve high stability and efficiency in producing a better Pareto front of antibody designs compared to top samples generated by baselines and previous alignment techniques. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps design new antibodies that are good at recognizing specific targets. It does this by training special computer models on lots of data about existing antibodies. The approach is like a three-step process: first, it trains a language model to understand antibody sequences, then uses that knowledge to optimize the structure of the antibodies, and finally selects the best designs based on how well they work. To make sure the design process doesn’t get stuck, the framework uses something called AbDPO to guide the models towards finding the best solutions. This leads to better-designed antibodies with high binding affinity. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Deep learning » Diffusion model » Language model » Optimization
