arxivcs.LG2026-07-24
Evolution-Aware MSA Reasoning for Subsampling via Factor Graphs
Zhangzhi Xiong, Minzhang Li, Haotian Yu, Sixian Shen, Kexin Zhang, Mingrui Li, et al.
Multiple Sequence Alignments (MSAs) provide protein language models with explicit evolutionary context, but their large depth makes subsampling unavoidable under limited token budgets. Existing strategies, including random selection, identity-based filtering, and diversity-driven…