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Aug 2026
RIFT-VAE: grammar-conditioned pretraining and latent-space optimization for RNA inverse folding
RIFT-VAE is best interpreted as a hybrid generative-search framework: pretraining supplies a structure- and family-informed proposal distribution, whereas latent optimization concentrates evaluations in high-scoring regions.
Kentaro Watanabe, Manato Akiyama, Yasubumi Sakakibara
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