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11 papers

cs.CE2026

ProteoCraft: Protein Design as Proposal-Verification Search

Fang Wu, Hongbin Lin, Bingchen Duan +24

Protein-protein interactions underpin nearly all biological processes. Yet, designing proteins with desired interactions remains challenging due to the structural complexity govern…

cs.LG2026

RiboBridge: protein-conditioned de novo RNA binder structure design

Zhou Zhang, Hanqun Cao, Minghao Sun +5

Designing RNA molecules that bind to target protein structures requires generating both an RNA conformation and its bound complex geometry, without assuming a predefined binding si…

cs.LG2026

Feedback-Calibrated Protein Optimization with Batch-Aligned Tail Arbitration

Zefeng Lin, Xianyong Fang, Tianfan Fu +1

Protein optimization aims to discover high-fitness sequences under a limited experimental budget. Existing machine-learning methods use task-specific predictors, biological priors,…

q-bio.BM2026

RNA Design via Conditioned Flow Matching and Finite-Policy Reinforcement Learning

Zefeng Lin, Xianyong Fang, Tianfan Fu +1

RNA design aims to identify sequences that fold into specified secondary structures. Existing methods formulate the task as target-specific search or conditional generation. Howeve…

cs.LG2026

Preserving Continuous Symmetry in Discrete Spaces: Geometric-Aware Quantization for SO(3)-Equivariant GNNs

Haoyu Zhou, Ping Xue, Hao Zhang +1

Equivariant Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are essential for physically consistent molecular simulations but suffer from high computational costs and memory bottlenecks, especially w…

cs.LG2026

Quantized SO(3)-Equivariant Graph Neural Networks for Efficient Molecular Property Prediction

Haoyu Zhou, Ping Xue, Hao Zhang +1

Deploying 3D graph neural networks (GNNs) that are equivariant to 3D rotations (the group SO(3)) on edge devices is challenging due to their high computational cost. This paper add…

cs.LG2026

RiboSphere: Learning Unified and Efficient Representations of RNA Structures

Zhou Zhang, Hanqun Cao, Cheng Tan +3

Accurate RNA structure modeling remains difficult because RNA backbones are highly flexible, non-canonical interactions are prevalent, and experimentally determined 3D structures a…

cs.CE2026

Navigating heterogeneous protein landscapes through geometry-aware smoothing

Srinivas Anumasa, Barath Chandran, Tingting Chen +15

The evolutionary fitness landscape of biological molecules is extremely sparse and heterogeneous, with functional sequences forming isolated dense ``islands'' within a vast combina…

q-bio.BM2026

EnzyPGM: Pocket-conditioned Generative Model for Substrate-specific Enzyme Design

Zefeng Lin, Zhihang Zhang, Weirong Zhu +4

Designing enzymes with substrate-binding pockets is a critical challenge in protein engineering, as catalytic activity depends on the precise interaction between pockets and substr…

q-bio.QM2025

RadDiff: Retrieval-Augmented Denoising Diffusion for Protein Inverse Folding

Jin Han, Tianfan Fu, Wu-Jun Li

Protein inverse folding, the design of an amino acid sequence based on a target protein structure, is a fundamental problem of computational protein engineering. Existing methods e…

q-bio.BM2025

RiboPO: Preference Optimization for Structure- and Stability-Aware RNA Design

Minghao Sun, Hanqun Cao, Zhou Zhang +10

Designing RNA sequences that reliably adopt specified three-dimensional structures while maintaining thermodynamic stability remains challenging for synthetic biology and therapeut…