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Chamaileon: Cross-Context Binder Design with Contextualized Modeling and Mixed Sampling

Hengyuan Cao, Shizhuo Cheng, Mingxuan Liu, Weicheng Huang, Yunhong Lu, chenxi cai, Yan Zhang, Min Zhang

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Abstract

The rapid evolution of generative models has unlocked new potentials in protein binder design, a pivotal task in structural biology, by facilitating end-to-end generation via joint sequence-structure modeling or hallucination. However, existing approaches are predominantly implemented under a single-target, single-state assumption, limiting their ability to model multi-target or multistate interactions required for advanced functionoriented protein design. Here, we introduce Chamaileon, which unifies multi-target and multi-state binder design by formulating the problem as cross-context binding landscape modeling. The framework is underpinned by a training paradigm termed In-Context Complex Co-Design (I3CD) for context-aware sequence-structure comodeling. During inference, we employ Mixtureof-Paths Sampling (MoPS), a scalable strategy that optimizes a single sequence across contexts while alleviating the scarcity of highquality multi-conformational paired data. Extensive evaluation on our newly constructed benchmark, CROSS, demonstrates that Chamaileon effectively generates sequences adaptable to diverse conformational landscapes and multitarget requirements. The code is available on https://github.com/caohengyuan/Chamaileon .

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