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Chenchao Zhao
dblp:210/2212
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Bioinformatics and computational biology · 100% | |
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Generative modeling · 100% |
Topics — the 5 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Generative modeling
flow matching |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | AffinityFlow: Guided Flows for Antibody Affinity Maturation · ICML 2025 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling › protein design
protein structure generation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | AffinityFlow: Guided Flows for Antibody Affinity Maturation · ICML 2025 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology › protein design
antibody affinity maturation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | AffinityFlow: Guided Flows for Antibody Affinity Maturation · ICML 2025 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology
protein design |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | AffinityFlow: Guided Flows for Antibody Affinity Maturation · ICML 2025 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology
protein structure prediction |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | AffinityFlow: Guided Flows for Antibody Affinity Maturation · ICML 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
inverse folding · 1.7flow matching · 1.7co-teaching · 1.7alternating optimization · 1.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | AffinityFlow: Guided Flows for Antibody Affinity MaturationabstractAntibodies are widely used as therapeutics, but their development requires costly affinity maturation, involving iterative mutations to enhance binding affinity. This paper explores a sequence-only scenario for affinity maturation, using solely antibody and antigen sequences. Recently AlphaFlow wraps AlphaFold within flow matching to generate diverse protein structures, enabling a sequence-conditioned generative model of structure. Building on this, we propose an alternating optimization framework that (1) fixes the sequence to guide structure generation toward high binding affinity using a structure-based predictor, then (2) applies inverse folding to create sequence mutations, refined by a sequence-based predictor. A key challenge is the lack of labeled data for training both predictors. To address this, we develop a co-teaching module that incorporates valuable information from noisy biophysical energies into predictor refinement. The sequence-based predictor selects consensus samples to teach the structure-based predictor, and vice versa. Our method, AffinityFlow, achieves state-of-the-art performance in proof-of-concept affinity maturation experiments. Karla-Luise Herpoldt, Chenchao Zhao, Marcus D. Collins, Shang Shang, Ron Benson |
ICML | 3 |