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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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Published 2026-07-26 · First seen 2026-07-28

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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 multi-state interactions required for advanced function-oriented 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 co-modeling. During inference, we employ Mixture-of-Paths Sampling (MoPS), a scalable strategy that optimizes a single sequence across contexts while alleviating the scarcity of high-quality multi-conformational paired data. Extensive evaluation on our newly constructed benchmark, CROSS, demonstrates that Chamaileon effectively generates sequences adaptable to diverse conformational landscapes and multi-target requirements. The code is available on https://github.com/caohengyuan/Chamaileon.

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@misc{cao2026chamaileon,
  title = {Chamaileon: Cross-Context Binder Design with Contextualized Modeling and Mixed Sampling},
  author = {Hengyuan Cao and Shizhuo Cheng and Mingxuan Liu and Weicheng Huang and Yunhong Lu and Chenxi Cai and Yan Zhang and Min Zhang},
  year = {2026},
  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 multi-state interactions required for advanced function-oriented protein design. Here, we introduce Chamaileon, which },
  url = {https://huggingface.co/papers/2607.23518},
  keywords = {code available, huggingface daily},
  eprint = {2607.23518},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}

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