Effects of Structural Reward Shaping on Biophysical Properties in RL-Trained Plasmid Generators
McClain Thiel, Angus G Cunningham, Chris P. Barnes
This paper evaluates RL and SFT for plasmid generation, finding RL achieves higher quality-control pass rates and converges to real plasmid distributions in 3-mer composition and minimum free energy density.
bioRxiv · May 29, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics