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most citedPepTune: De Novo Generation of Therapeutic Peptides with Multi-Objective-Guided Discrete Diffusion

10 citations · 24 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

q-bio.BM2026

mRNAutilus: Multi-Objective-Guided Discrete Generation of mRNA with Optimized Therapeutic Properties

Sawan Patel, Sophia Tang, Yesol Kim +8

Therapeutic mRNA design requires coordinating multiple interacting sequence features across the full transcript, where codon usage, untranslated regions (UTRs), and their coupling…

q-bio.BM2026

TD3B: Transition-Directed Discrete Diffusion for Allosteric Binder Generation

Hanqun Cao, Aastha Pal, Sophia Tang +4

Protein function is often controlled by ligands that bias the direction of state transitions, such as agonists and antagonists, rather than stabilizing a single conformation. This…

cs.LG2025

Entangled Schrödinger Bridge Matching

Sophia Tang, Yinuo Zhang, Pranam Chatterjee

Simulating trajectories of multi-particle systems on complex energy landscapes is a central task in molecular dynamics (MD) and drug discovery, but remains challenging at scale due…

cs.LG2025

AReUReDi: Annealed Rectified Updates for Refining Discrete Flows with Multi-Objective Guidance

Tong Chen, Yinuo Zhang, Pranam Chatterjee

Designing sequences that satisfy multiple, often conflicting, objectives is a central challenge in therapeutic and biomolecular engineering. Existing generative frameworks largely…

cs.LG2025

Branched Schrödinger Bridge Matching

Sophia Tang, Yinuo Zhang, Alexander Tong +1

Predicting the intermediate trajectories between an initial and target distribution is a central problem in generative modeling. Existing approaches, such as flow matching and Schr…

cs.LG2025★ 3 cited

Multi-Objective-Guided Discrete Flow Matching for Controllable Biological Sequence Design

Tong Chen, Yinuo Zhang, Sophia Tang +1

Designing biological sequences that satisfy multiple, often conflicting, functional and biophysical criteria remains a central challenge in biomolecule engineering. While discrete…

cs.LG2025★ 3 cited

Gumbel-Softmax Flow Matching with Straight-Through Guidance for Controllable Biological Sequence Generation

Sophia Tang, Yinuo Zhang, Alexander Tong +1

Flow matching in the continuous simplex has emerged as a promising strategy for DNA sequence design, but struggles to scale to higher simplex dimensions required for peptide and pr…

q-bio.BM2024★ 10 cited

PepTune: De Novo Generation of Therapeutic Peptides with Multi-Objective-Guided Discrete Diffusion

Sophia Tang, Yinuo Zhang, Pranam Chatterjee

We present PepTune, a multi-objective discrete diffusion model for simultaneous generation and optimization of therapeutic peptide SMILES. Built on the Masked Discrete Language Mod…

q-bio.BM2024★ 5 cited

PepDoRA: A Unified Peptide Language Model via Weight-Decomposed Low-Rank Adaptation

Leyao Wang, Rishab Pulugurta, Pranay Vure +3

Peptide therapeutics, including macrocycles, peptide inhibitors, and bioactive linear peptides, play a crucial role in therapeutic development due to their unique physicochemical p…

q-bio.BM2024★ 3 cited

Token-Level Guided Discrete Diffusion for Membrane Protein Design

Shrey Goel, Peregrine M. Schray, Yinuo Zhang +3

Reparameterized diffusion models (RDMs) have recently matched autoregressive methods in protein generation, motivating their use for challenging tasks such as designing membrane pr…

cs.CV2023

Extreme Image Compression using Fine-tuned VQGANs

Qi Mao, Tinghan Yang, Yinuo Zhang +4

Recent advances in generative compression methods have demonstrated remarkable progress in enhancing the perceptual quality of compressed data, especially in scenarios with low bit…