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RNA Design via Conditioned Flow Matching and Finite-Policy Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2609.36885v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: RNA design aims to identify sequences that fold into specified secondary structures. Existing methods formulate the task as target-specific search or
arXiv:2609.36885v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: RNA design aims to identify sequences that fold into specified secondary structures. Existing methods formulate the task as target-specific search or conditional generation. However, natural RNA evolution proceeds through sequence variation and selection, with compensatory substitutions, whereas these methods do not explicitly model this process. To address this limitation, we propose a two-stage framework comprising RNA Inverse-Folding Flow (RNA-IFlow) and RNA-IFlow-RL. RNA-IFlow uses structure-conditioned Dirichlet Flow Matching to model coordinated variation across the sequence, while RNA-IFlow-RL maps the learned flow to a pairing-preserving finite policy and refines it with thermodynamic feedback. Our framework achieves leading performance on multiple benchmarks, reaching 85.19% Pass@1 on Rfam-27. Further analyses reveal thermodynamic gains, policy dynamics, and robustness across settings. Our work couples coordinated variation with thermodynamic selection, offering a novel paradigm for RNA design.
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Source: arXiv cs.LG | 2026-09-30