Antibody expression ranking is a critical task in antibody design, yet its modelling is severely hindered by the scarcity of labeled experimental data. To address this, we propose a unified preference-based learning framework that integrates scarce quantitative expression data with large-scale weak positive supervision from immunization data. We adapt Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) to protein language models by introducing a union-masked log-likelihood approximation and IMGT-based alignment, enabling efficient training on variable-length sequences. Evaluating on a diverse internal dataset of 1254 labeled sequences and 4 million unlabeled camelid-derived antibodies, we show that our method consistently outperforms baselines on most metrics. Our results demonstrate that preference learning can effectively learn from weak supervision, providing a scalable solution for antibody expressibility optimization in data-constrained settings. Project page: https://kisoji-biotechnology-inc.github.io/Preference-Expression-Ranking/.
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