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@charliebtan
charliebtan
3 months
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!
@majdi_has
Majdi Hassan
3 months
(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 @mmbronstein @AlexanderTong7 @k_neklyudov Read
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@jiqizhixin
机器之心 JIQIZHIXIN
3 months
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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@bravo_abad
Jorge Bravo Abad
3 months
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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@instadeepai
InstaDeep
8 months
🔧 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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@kbeguir
Karim Beguir
8 months
🧬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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@tomdbarrett
Tom Barrett
8 months
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:
instadeep.com
InstaDeep’s latest generative AI aims to redefine the development of antibodies through a multi-modal approach
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@tomdbarrett
Tom Barrett
8 months
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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@tomdbarrett
Tom Barrett
8 months
🌟 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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@tomdbarrett
Tom Barrett
8 months
🚀 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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@tomdbarrett
Tom Barrett
8 months
🔄 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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@tomdbarrett
Tom Barrett
8 months
🛡️ 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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@tomdbarrett
Tom Barrett
8 months
🏷️ Sequence Annotation: Predicts genetic and developability attributes from sequence alone, matching specialised methods but with much broader coverage.
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@tomdbarrett
Tom Barrett
8 months
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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@tomdbarrett
Tom Barrett
8 months
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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@tomdbarrett
Tom Barrett
8 months
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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@BiologyAIDaily
Biology+AI Daily
8 months
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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@tomdbarrett
Tom Barrett
9 months
Our work "Protein Sequence Modelling with Bayesian Flow Networks" is now published in @NatureComms! 🎉 🧵 For a breakdown, see my original thread. 📄 Paper
@tomdbarrett
Tom Barrett
10 months
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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@EU_Startups
EU-Startups
9 months
#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
eu-startups.com
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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@tomdbarrett
Tom Barrett
10 months
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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