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When Multimodal Fusion Fails: Contrastive Alignment as a Necessary Stabilizer for TCR--Peptide Binding Prediction
Cong Qi, Wenbo Wang, Hanzhang Fang, Zhi Wei
The paper shows that naive fusion of sequence and graph modalities in TCR-peptide binding prediction can degrade performance and introduces TRACE, a contrastive alignment method that stabilizes multimodal learning.
DOI 10.1093/bioinformatics/btag573