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Zijie Qiu

4 accepted papers

2025

Bidirectional Representations Augmented Autoregressive Biological Sequence Generation: Application in De Novo Peptide Sequencing

NeurIPS 2025poster

Autoregressive (AR) models, common in sequence generation, are limited in many biological tasks like de novo peptide sequencing and protein modeling by their unidirectional nature, failing to capture crucial global bidirectional token dependencies. Non-Autoregressive (NAR) models offer holistic, bid…

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2025

Curriculum Learning for Biological Sequence Prediction: The Case of De Novo Peptide Sequencing

ICML 2025poster

Peptide sequencing—the process of identifying amino acid sequences from mass spectrometry data—is a fundamental task in proteomics. Non-Autoregressive Transformers (NATs) have proven highly effective for this task, outperforming traditional methods. Unlike autoregressive models, which generate token…

2025

Retrieval is Not Enough: Enhancing RAG through Test-Time Critique and Optimization

NeurIPS 2025poster

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become a widely adopted paradigm for enabling knowledge-grounded large language models (LLMs). However, standard RAG pipelines often fail to ensure that model reasoning remains consistent with the evidence retrieved, leading to factual inconsistencies or unsu…

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2025

Universal Biological Sequence Reranking for Improved De Novo Peptide Sequencing

ICML 2025poster

De novo peptide sequencing is a critical task in proteomics. However, the performance of current deep learning-based methods is limited by the inherent complexity of mass spectrometry data and the heterogeneous distribution of noise signals, leading to data-specific biases. We present RankNovo, the…