Paper List
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Formation of Artificial Neural Assemblies by Biologically Plausible Inhibition Mechanisms
This work addresses the core limitation of the Assembly Calculus model—its fixed-size, biologically implausible k-WTA selection process—by introducing...
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How to make the most of your masked language model for protein engineering
This paper addresses the critical bottleneck of efficiently sampling high-quality, diverse protein sequences from Masked Language Models (MLMs) for pr...
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Module control in youth symptom networks across COVID-19
This paper addresses the core challenge of distinguishing whether a prolonged societal stressor (COVID-19) fundamentally reorganizes the architecture ...
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JEDI: Jointly Embedded Inference of Neural Dynamics
This paper addresses the core challenge of inferring context-dependent neural dynamics from noisy, high-dimensional recordings using a single unified ...
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ATP Level and Phosphorylation Free Energy Regulate Trigger-Wave Speed and Critical Nucleus Size in Cellular Biochemical Systems
This work addresses the core challenge of quantitatively predicting how the cellular energy state (ATP level and phosphorylation free energy) governs ...
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Packaging Jupyter notebooks as installable desktop apps using LabConstrictor
This paper addresses the core pain point of ensuring Jupyter notebook reproducibility and accessibility across different computing environments, parti...
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SNPgen: Phenotype-Supervised Genotype Representation and Synthetic Data Generation via Latent Diffusion
This paper addresses the core challenge of generating privacy-preserving synthetic genotype data that maintains both statistical fidelity and downstre...
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Continuous Diffusion Transformers for Designing Synthetic Regulatory Elements
This paper addresses the challenge of efficiently generating novel, cell-type-specific regulatory DNA sequences with high predicted activity while min...
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。