Tom Barrett
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Staff Research Scientist @instadeepai
Joined October 2020
Super excited to announce our recent work was accepted to NeurIPS 2025! 🌟 We introduce Prose, a 280M-parameter transferable normalizing flow proposal for efficient sampling of unseen peptide sequences 😮 Many thanks to the fantastic team!
(1/7) New paper!🚀 https://t.co/dq6yEzWyHg ✅Boltzmann distribution sampling for peptides up to 8 residues ✅4.3ms of training MD trajectories ✅Open-source codebase With @charliebtan, @leonklein26, Saifuddin Syed, @dom_beaini
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This is huge! A UCLA team managed to build an optical generative model that runs on light instead of GPUs. In their demo, a shallow encoder maps noise into phase patterns, which a free-space optical decoder then transforms into images—digits, fashion, butterflies, faces, even
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Solving the many-electron Schrödinger equation with Transformers Every material property, in principle, comes from solving the many-electron Schrödinger equation. But the math is brutal: the Hilbert space grows exponentially, and even the best methods—DFT, coupled-cluster,
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🔧 Introducing AbBFN2: our multi-modal antibody foundation model. AbBFN2 jointly models 45 data modes spanning sequences, genetic information and developability attributes to provide a rich framework with which to define conditional generation tasks. Join Research Scientist
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🧬Introducing AbBFN2, our latest generative AI model for multi-objective antibody design!✨ Built on our BFN work published in @NatureComms, AbBFN2 masters the dependencies between sequence, genetic attributes, and developability, taking antibody design to the next level! 🧵
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Explore the details further: 📄 Preprint: https://t.co/yyC9A0pCvE 🌐 Try the web app and test-drive AbBFN2 yourself: https://t.co/aEbkHEhAMs 💻 Code: https://t.co/sNnhkWdeaw ✒️ Blog:
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InstaDeep’s latest generative AI aims to redefine the development of antibodies through a multi-modal approach
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AbBFN2 highlights how Bayesian Flow Networks enable "condition anywhere, generate anywhere," transforming antibody design workflows from annotation and prediction to complex optimisation tasks.
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🌟 De Novo Library Design: Targeting VRC-01 antibodies—rare variants known for their HIV-suppressing capabilities—we successfully generated human-compatible, liability-free libraries despite limited initial examples (only 21 paired sequences in OAS).
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🚀 Joint Humanisation & Liability Removal: Unlike traditional sequential optimization, AbBFN2 efficiently tackles both simultaneously. Achieved ~80% success rate (>90% for solvable cases) while minimising framework mutations.
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🔄 VH-VL Interface Redesign: Given one antibody chain, AbBFN2 generates stable partner chains, confirmed by Rosetta-calculated binding energies comparable to natural antibodies—despite only ~75% amino acid recovery. This indicates robust, novel design capability.
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🛡️ Immunogenicity Prediction: AbBFN2's humaness logits correlate strongly with observed ADA (anti-drug antibody) responses in clinical data—competitive with state-of-the-art predictive methods. High confidence predictions closely align with real-world outcomes.
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🏷️ Sequence Annotation: Predicts genetic and developability attributes from sequence alone, matching specialised methods but with much broader coverage.
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We extensively validated AbBFN2 across multiple antibody design challenges... ✅ Unconditional Generation: Produces natural antibodies with well-distributed, correlated genetic and developability traits.
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Building on our recent ProtBFN paper in @NatureComms, AbBFN2 uses Bayesian Flow Networks (BFNs) to integrate heterogeneous antibody data into a unified generative framework. A single unconditional training objective unlocks flexible, guided conditional generation at inference.
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Excited to announce our latest work: AbBFN2, a generative antibody model co-modelling sequences, genetic origins, and developability attributes across 45 diverse data modalities! 🧬🔬 🧵 Thread to follow, including links to the paper 📄 , code 💻, blog ✒️ and web app 🌐!
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AbBFN2: A flexible antibody foundation model based on Bayesian Flow Networks 1. AbBFN2 is a generative foundation model for antibodies built on the Bayesian Flow Network (BFN) paradigm, allowing conditional generation across 45 sequence, genetic, and biophysical data modes
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AbBFN2: A flexible antibody foundation model based on Bayesian Flow Networks https://t.co/0uRWQ3UwGE
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Antibody engineering is marked by diverse data and desiderata, making it a prime candidate for multi-objective design, but is commonly tackled as a series of sequential optimisation tasks. Here, we...
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Our work "Protein Sequence Modelling with Bayesian Flow Networks" is now published in @NatureComms! 🎉 🧵 For a breakdown, see my original thread. 📄 Paper
Excited to share our latest work applying Bayesian Flow Networks (BFNs) to proteomics! We show how BFNs can outperform leading autoregressive, discrete diffusion, and BERT models in protein sequence modeling. 🧵
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#Oxford-based #Lumai, an #AI accelerator startup using #optics to address global computational challenges, has secured more than €9.2 million to help AI #data centres reduce costs and boost performance 🇬🇧 🚀 https://t.co/Oyt97wGg0N
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Oxford-based Lumai, an AI accelerator startup using optics to address global computational challenges, today announced that it has secured more than €9.2
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To learn more, see the original paper from September and our new blog. 📄 Preprint https://t.co/Yt4iKOuJ9K ⭐ Code https://t.co/iP2cfQfNkv ✒️ Blog https://t.co/59DaPC9xkU 🤗 https://t.co/Ca4x4E7BoM There is more coming in the next few weeks…watch this space! ⌛ 👀 🔥
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