Paper List
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Nyxus: A Next Generation Image Feature Extraction Library for the Big Data and AI Era
This paper addresses the core pain point of efficiently extracting standardized, comparable features from massive (terabyte to petabyte-scale) biomedi...
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Topological Enhancement of Protein Kinetic Stability
This work addresses the long-standing puzzle of why knotted proteins exist by demonstrating that deep knots provide a functional advantage through enh...
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A Multi-Label Temporal Convolutional Framework for Transcription Factor Binding Characterization
This paper addresses the critical limitation of existing TF binding prediction methods that treat transcription factors as independent entities, faili...
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Social Distancing Equilibria in Games under Conventional SI Dynamics
This paper solves the core problem of proving the existence and uniqueness of Nash equilibria in finite-duration SI epidemic games, showing they are a...
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Binding Free Energies without Alchemy
This paper addresses the core bottleneck of computational expense in Absolute Binding Free Energy calculations by eliminating the need for numerous al...
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SHREC: A Spectral Embedding-Based Approach for Ab-Initio Reconstruction of Helical Molecules
This paper addresses the core bottleneck in cryo-EM helical reconstruction: eliminating the dependency on accurate initial symmetry parameter estimati...
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Budget-Sensitive Discovery Scoring: A Formally Verified Framework for Evaluating AI-Guided Scientific Selection
This paper addresses the critical gap in evaluating AI-guided scientific selection strategies under realistic budget constraints, where existing metri...
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Probabilistic Joint and Individual Variation Explained (ProJIVE) for Data Integration
This paper addresses the core challenge of accurately decomposing shared (joint) and dataset-specific (individual) sources of variation in multi-modal...
用于量子退火优化的二元潜在蛋白质适应度景观
University of Alabama at Birmingham
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IN SHORT: 通过将序列映射到二元潜在空间进行基于QUBO的适应度优化，桥接蛋白质表示学习和组合优化。
核心创新
- Methodology First framework to transform protein language model embeddings into binary latent representations for QUBO-based fitness modeling
- Methodology Enables direct compatibility with quantum annealing hardware through native QUBO formulation
- Biology Demonstrates that simple binary representations can capture meaningful structure in protein fitness landscapes
主要结论
- Q-BioLat在ProteinGym GFP数据集（10,000个样本，潜在维度32-64）上实现了0.385-0.413的Spearman相关性
- 优化后的序列始终检索到适应度百分位顶部的最近邻，模拟退火在代理分数上实现了1.529±的改进
- 遗传算法在更高维潜在空间（m=64）中优于其他方法，而局部搜索能更好地保持序列真实性
摘要: 我们提出了Q-BioLat，一个在二元潜在空间中建模和优化蛋白质适应度景观的框架。从蛋白质序列出发，我们利用预训练的蛋白质语言模型获得连续嵌入，然后将其转换为紧凑的二元潜在表示。在这个空间中，蛋白质适应度使用二次无约束二元优化（QUBO）模型进行近似，从而通过经典启发式方法（如模拟退火和遗传算法）实现高效的组合搜索。在ProteinGym基准测试中，我们证明Q-BioLat能够捕捉蛋白质适应度景观中的有意义结构，并能够识别高适应度变体。尽管使用了简单的二值化方案，我们的方法始终能检索到其最近邻位于训练适应度分布顶部的序列，特别是在最强配置下。我们进一步表明，不同的优化策略表现出不同的行为，进化搜索在更高维的潜在空间中表现更好，而局部搜索在保持真实序列方面仍具有竞争力。除了其经验性能外，Q-BioLat为蛋白质表示学习和组合优化之间提供了自然的桥梁。通过将蛋白质适应度表述为QUBO问题，我们的框架与新兴的量子退火硬件直接兼容，为量子辅助蛋白质工程开辟了新的方向。