ProtoCycle: Reflective Tool-Augmented Planning for Text-Guided Protein Design

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Autori principali: Ge, Yutang, Zhao, Guojiang, Li, Sihang, Cheng, Zheng, Zhao, Zifeng, Xia, Hanchen, Ke, Guolin, Zhang, Linfeng, Gao, Zhifeng, Wang, Yuguang
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author Ge, Yutang
Zhao, Guojiang
Li, Sihang
Cheng, Zheng
Zhao, Zifeng
Xia, Hanchen
Ke, Guolin
Zhang, Linfeng
Gao, Zhifeng
Wang, Yuguang
author_facet Ge, Yutang
Zhao, Guojiang
Li, Sihang
Cheng, Zheng
Zhao, Zifeng
Xia, Hanchen
Ke, Guolin
Zhang, Linfeng
Gao, Zhifeng
Wang, Yuguang
contents Designing proteins that satisfy natural language functional requirements is a central goal in protein engineering. A straightforward baseline is to fine-tune generic instruction-tuned LLMs as direct text-to-sequence generators, but this is data- and compute-hungry. With limited supervision, LLMs can produce coherent plans in text yet fail to reliably realize them as sequences. This plan-execute gap motivates ProtoCycle, an agentic framework for protein design that uses LLMs primarily to drive a multi-round, feedback-driven decision cycle. ProtoCycle couples an LLM planner with a lightweight tool environment designed to emulate the iterative workflow of human protein engineering and uses LLM-driven reflection on tool feedback to revise plans. Trained with supervised trajectories and online reinforcement learning, ProtoCycle achieves strong language alignment while maintaining competitive foldability, and ablations show that reflection substantially improves sequence quality.
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spellingShingle ProtoCycle: Reflective Tool-Augmented Planning for Text-Guided Protein Design
Ge, Yutang
Zhao, Guojiang
Li, Sihang
Cheng, Zheng
Zhao, Zifeng
Xia, Hanchen
Ke, Guolin
Zhang, Linfeng
Gao, Zhifeng
Wang, Yuguang
Quantitative Methods
Artificial Intelligence
Designing proteins that satisfy natural language functional requirements is a central goal in protein engineering. A straightforward baseline is to fine-tune generic instruction-tuned LLMs as direct text-to-sequence generators, but this is data- and compute-hungry. With limited supervision, LLMs can produce coherent plans in text yet fail to reliably realize them as sequences. This plan-execute gap motivates ProtoCycle, an agentic framework for protein design that uses LLMs primarily to drive a multi-round, feedback-driven decision cycle. ProtoCycle couples an LLM planner with a lightweight tool environment designed to emulate the iterative workflow of human protein engineering and uses LLM-driven reflection on tool feedback to revise plans. Trained with supervised trajectories and online reinforcement learning, ProtoCycle achieves strong language alignment while maintaining competitive foldability, and ablations show that reflection substantially improves sequence quality.
title ProtoCycle: Reflective Tool-Augmented Planning for Text-Guided Protein Design
topic Quantitative Methods
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16896