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6 papers

q-bio.BM2026

Structure-Regularized Interpretable TCR-Epitope Prediction

Jiarui Li, Zixiang Yin, Yunbei Zhang +4

T cell receptor (TCR)-epitope binding prediction is essential for understanding adaptive immunity and developing immunotherapies. Existing sequence- and structure-based models ofte…

q-bio.BM2026

APLSuite: An Integrated Suite for CD4+ T Cell Epitope Prediction via Antigen Processing Likelihood

Jiarui Li, Marco K. Carbullido, Jai Bansal +2

Computational epitope prediction is a critical tool for exploring and understanding CD4+ T cell-mediated immune responses, a key aspect of adaptive immunity. While existing computa…

cs.CV2026

Why Does It Look There? Structured Explanations for Image Classification

Jiarui Li, Zixiang Yin, Samuel J Landry +2

Deep learning models achieve remarkable predictive performance, yet their black-box nature limits transparency and trustworthiness. Although numerous explainable artificial intelli…

q-bio.QM2026

TCR-EML: Explainable Model Layers for TCR-pMHC Prediction

Jiarui Li, Zixiang Yin, Zhengming Ding +2

T cell receptor (TCR) recognition of peptide-MHC (pMHC) complexes is a central component of adaptive immunity, with implications for vaccine design, cancer immunotherapy, and autoi…

cs.CE2026

Quantifying Cross-Attention Interaction in Transformers for Interpreting TCR-pMHC Binding

Jiarui Li, Zixiang Yin, Haley Smith +3

CD8+ "killer" T cells and CD4+ "helper" T cells play a central role in the adaptive immune system by recognizing antigens presented by Major Histocompatibility Complex (pMHC) molec…

cs.CE2025

Rational Multi-Modal Transformers for TCR-pMHC Prediction

Jiarui Li, Zixiang Yin, Zhengming Ding +2

T cell receptor (TCR) recognition of peptide-MHC (pMHC) complexes is fundamental to adaptive immunity and central to the development of T cell-based immunotherapies. While transfor…