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Kenji C. Walker

Boston University

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Approach:deep learning· 1 Assay:protein sequence· 1 Research Focus:protein structure prediction· 1

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Preferential CDR masking in paired antibody language models improves binding affinity prediction

Mahtab Talaei, Kenji C. Walker, Boran Hao, Eliot Jolley, Y. Jin, Dima Kozakov, John Misasi, Sándor Vajda, Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis, Diane Joseph‐McCarthy

This paper shows that focusing on complementarity-determining regions (CDRs) in antibody sequences improves binding affinity prediction using region-aware pretraining strategies.

Communications AI & Computing · Aug 13, 2026Peer-reviewedBioinformatics