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Teaching generative models to hallucinate

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There are currently two main approaches to computational protein binder design: optimization (exemplified by BindCraft) and generative models (e.g. BoltzGen). A design campaign using either method looks very similar: you first generate a large collection of designs and then rank and filter them down to a handful for wetlab

There are currently two main approaches to computational protein binder design: optimization (exemplified by BindCraft) and generative models (e.g. BoltzGen). A design campaign using either method looks very similar: you first generate a large collection of designs and then rank and filter them down to a handful for wetlab testing. In practice the main difference is that optimization (also known as hallucination[[1]]) has high average per-design in silico quality, but is very slow; while generative models are much, much faster but average design quality is lower[[2]]. We'll show that, by…

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