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New FDD framework adapts pretrained embeddings for peptide design

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Researchers have introduced Freeze, Diffuse, Decode (FDD), a new framework designed to adapt pretrained transformer embeddings for downstream tasks while preserving their original geometric structure. This diffusion-based approach propagates supervised signals along the intrinsic manifold of frozen embeddings, allowing for geometry-aware adaptation. When applied to antimicrobial peptide design, FDD generates low-dimensional, predictive, and interpretable representations that can be used for property prediction, retrieval, and latent-space interpolation. AI

IMPACT This method could improve the efficiency and interpretability of transfer learning in domains with limited supervised data.

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New FDD framework adapts pretrained embeddings for peptide design

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Pankhil Gawade, Adam Izdebski, Myriam Lizotte, Kevin R. Moon, Jake S. Rhodes, Guy Wolf, Ewa Szczurek ·

    Freeze, Diffuse, Decode: Geometry-Aware Adaptation of Pretrained Transformer Embeddings for Antimicrobial Peptide Design

    arXiv:2511.23120v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Pretrained transformers provide rich, general-purpose embeddings, which are transferred to downstream tasks. However, current transfer strategies: fine-tuning and probing, either distort the pretrained geometric structure of the…

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