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Improving Inverse Folding for Peptide Design with Diversity-regularized Direct Preference Optimization

25 October 2024
Ryan Park
Darren J. Hsu
C. Brian Roland
Maria Korshunova
Chen Tessler
Shie Mannor
Olivia Viessmann
Bruno Trentini
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Abstract

Inverse folding models play an important role in structure-based design by predicting amino acid sequences that fold into desired reference structures. Models like ProteinMPNN, a message-passing encoder-decoder model, are trained to reliably produce new sequences from a reference structure. However, when applied to peptides, these models are prone to generating repetitive sequences that do not fold into the reference structure. To address this, we fine-tune ProteinMPNN to produce diverse and structurally consistent peptide sequences via Direct Preference Optimization (DPO). We derive two enhancements to DPO: online diversity regularization and domain-specific priors. Additionally, we develop a new understanding on improving diversity in decoder models. When conditioned on OpenFold generated structures, our fine-tuned models achieve state-of-the-art structural similarity scores, improving base ProteinMPNN by at least 8%. Compared to standard DPO, our regularized method achieves up to 20% higher sequence diversity with no loss in structural similarity score.

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