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Kaiyuan Gao

9 accepted papers

2026

FlexProtein: Joint Sequence and Structure Pretraining for Protein Modeling

ICLR 2026poster

Protein foundation models have advanced rapidly, with most approaches falling into two dominant paradigms. Sequence-only language models (e.g., ESM-2) capture sequence semantics at scale but lack structural grounding. MSA-based predictors (e.g., AlphaFold 2/3) achieve accurate folding by exploiting…

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2026

Qwen-Image-Layered: Towards Inherent Editability via Layer Decomposition

CVPR 2026

Recent visual generative models often struggle with consistency during image editing due to the entangled nature of raster images, where all visual content is fused into a single canvas. In contrast, professional design tools employ layered representations, allowing isolated edits while preserving c

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2025

3D-MolT5: Leveraging Discrete Structural Information for Molecule-Text Modeling

ICLR 2025poster

The integration of molecular and natural language representations has emerged as a focal point in molecular science, with recent advancements in Language Models (LMs) demonstrating significant potential for comprehensive modeling of both domains. However, existing approaches face notable limitations…

2025

Fast and Accurate Blind Flexible Docking

ICLR 2025poster

Molecular docking that predicts the bound structures of small molecules (ligands) to their protein targets, plays a vital role in drug discovery. However, existing docking methods often face limitations: they either overlook crucial structural changes by assuming protein rigidity or suffer from low…

2024

BioT5+: Towards Generalized Biological Understanding with IUPAC Integration and Multi-task Tuning

ACL 2024findings

Recent research trends in computational biology have increasingly focused on integrating text and bio-entity modeling, especially in the context of molecules and proteins. However, previous efforts like BioT5 faced challenges in generalizing across diverse tasks and lacked a nuanced understanding of…

2023

BioT5: Enriching Cross-modal Integration in Biology with Chemical Knowledge and Natural Language Associations

EMNLP 2023long main

Recent advancements in biological research leverage the integration of molecules, proteins, and natural language to enhance drug discovery. However, current models exhibit several limitations, such as the generation of invalid molecular SMILES, underutilization of contextual information, and equal t…

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2023

FABind: Fast and Accurate Protein-Ligand Binding

NeurIPS 2023poster

Modeling the interaction between proteins and ligands and accurately predicting their binding structures is a critical yet challenging task in drug discovery. Recent advancements in deep learning have shown promise in addressing this challenge, with sampling-based and regression-based methods emergi…

2023

NAGphormer: A Tokenized Graph Transformer for Node Classification in Large Graphs

ICLR 2023poster

The graph Transformer emerges as a new architecture and has shown superior performance on various graph mining tasks. In this work, we observe that existing graph Transformers treat nodes as independent tokens and construct a single long sequence composed of all node tokens so as to train the Transf…