Researchers propose Spectral Feedback to improve protein diffusion models
A new paper on arXiv introduces Spectral Feedback, an algorithm designed to refine protein diffusion models during inference. Unlike prior methods that focus on steering token generation, this approach iteratively corrects errors by re-masking and re-sampling tokens in a feedback loop. The technique leverages sparse Fourier representations to optimize edit-position selection, improving alignment…
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- Spectral Feedback iteratively corrects protein diffusion model outputs by re-masking and re-sampling tokens in a feedback loop
- Method achieves **32.3% more stable proteins** for pretrained models and **24.8% for Best-of-10 sampling**
- Algorithm is model-agnostic and does not require modifying the generative process itself
The authors report gains of 32.3% more stable proteins for pretrained models, 24.8% for Best-of-10 sampling, and 5.8% for RL-finetuned state-of-the-art models when using a protein stability reward. The method is model-agnostic and could apply to pretrained, fine-tuned, or test-time aligned diffusion models, though no implementation or benchmarking beyond the paper exists.
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