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New Transformer Backbone Enhances Scalable Peptide Design

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Researchers have developed MEET (Memory Efficient Equivariant Transformer), a new E(3) equivariant backbone designed for scalable atomistic peptide modeling. This framework maintains invariant scalar and equivariant vector feature streams while employing memory-efficient attention mechanisms. By reformulating geometric computation, MEET achieves linear memory scaling with atom count and enhances generation quality compared to existing peptide design methods. Experiments demonstrate its ability to support systematic model and data scaling, leading to improved binding affinity, physical validity, and sample diversity in peptide generation. AI

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New Transformer Backbone Enhances Scalable Peptide Design

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Rui Jiao, Xiangzhe Kong, Yinjun Jia, Yijia Zhang, Ziyi Yang, Yang Liu, Jianzhu Ma ·

    Scalable Peptide Design via Memory-Efficient Equivariant Transformer

    arXiv:2606.25006v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Target-specific peptide design requires sequence and structure co-design under full atom geometric constraints. Latent generative frameworks offer an effective route for this problem by compressing fine grained atomic structures int…

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