Does Learning Protein Folding Generalize to Broader Reasoning?
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arXiv:2609.38879v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models rely heavily on human text, which often conveys surface answers rather than the spatial and structural logic behind them. Protein folding is a natural testbed, because one solved structure yields thousands of exactly checkable spatial and topological statements. We ask: can learning to fold proteins teach general models reusable reasoning capabilities? To answer this, we build FoldingCorpus, a protein-derived question-answer dataset, and Fold2Reason, a recipe that post-trains on it through two complementary signals: discre
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.38879v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models rely heavily on human text, which often conveys surface answers rather than the spatial and structural logic behind them.
- Protein folding is a natural testbed, because one solved structure yields thousands of exactly checkable spatial and topological statements.
- We ask: can learning to fold proteins teach general models reusable reasoning capabilities?
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