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ProteinZero Uses Online Reinforcement Learning for Self-Improving Protein Design
A new arXiv preprint introduces ProteinZero, a method that applies online reinforcement learning to protein generative models so they can improve without depending on curated sequence-structure datasets. The authors argue that current supervised training objectives are misaligned with actual protein design goals, and that their approach addresses this gap. The work appears as a replacement submission on arXiv's machine learning category.