ProteinDPO uses DPO to align protein models with experimental fitness, published in Nature Methods
KevinKaichuang · x · 2026-08-16
Published in Nature Methods, the paper introduces ProteinDPO, a method using Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) to align protein-generative models. It trains a structure-conditioned protein language model to preferentially generate stable protein sequences.
Key Findings:
- Stability Prediction: ProteinDPO achieves stability prediction competitive with specialized task-specific models.
- Outperforms Fine-tuning: It consistently outperforms unsupervised and fine-tuned versions while retaining general pre-trained knowledge.
- Generalization: The model generalizes beyond training data to enable stabilization and improved binding affinity prediction for large multichain complexes.
- Application: The paper demonstrates its application in stabilizing the pre-fusion state of hemagglutinin, the primary component of flu vaccines.
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