Jason Yang — Papers on Cortexa

openalexbioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)2026-07-24

Machine Learning-Assisted Evolution of Broadly Functional Enzyme Libraries

Ravi Lal, Jason Yang, Ziyan Zhang, Frances H. Arnold

Biocatalysis offers sustainable solutions to pressing challenges in chemical synthesis by exploiting the remarkable efficiency and selectivity of enzymes. Importantly, enzymes are able to accommodate non-native substrates and mediate transformations outside of their natural reper…

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arxivcs.LG2026-07-03

On the Design Space of Discrete Diffusion Online Adaptation for Molecular Optimization

Trevor Chen, Ariel Dai, Jason Yang, Riccardo De Santi, Daniel Khalil, Wenda Chu, et al.

Molecular optimization often starts from a pretrained generative model that captures a broad prior over valid molecular structures. At test time, however, the goal is not to sample from this prior, but to use a limited oracle budget to shift generation toward task-specific high-r…

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