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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2025

Data-optimal scaling of paired antibody language models.

Mahdi Shafiei Neyestanak, Sarah M Burbach, Karenna Ng, Praneeth Gangavarapu, Jonathan Hurtado, Judie Magura, Nasreen Ismail, Daniel Muema, Thumbi Ndung'u, Andrew B Ward and 1 more

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11 authors.

Mahdi Shafiei NeyestanakDepartment of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7863-1350
Sarah M BurbachDepartment of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8929-5727
Karenna NgDepartment of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA.ORCID 0009-0006-8227-7178
Praneeth GangavarapuDepartment of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0111-4988
Jonathan HurtadoDepartment of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA.
Judie MaguraAfrica Health Research Institute, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, 4001, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-5028-2654
Nasreen IsmailHIV Pathogenesis Programme, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, 4001, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-7026-3605
Daniel MuemaAfrica Health Research Institute, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, 4001, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-7995-1682
Thumbi Ndung'uAfrica Health Research Institute, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, 4001, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0003-2962-3992
Andrew B WardDepartment of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, 92037 USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7153-3769
Bryan BrineyDepartment of Immunology and Microbiology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9535-2866

Funding

Identification of neutralizing epitopes on SARS-CoV-2 spike for design of vaccines and small-molecule antiviralsUM1AI144462 · NIAID · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI BURTON, DENNIS R. · 2019 to 2025
$201.6M
VirologyP30AI036214 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI SUSAN JANET LITTLE · 1994 to 2026
$78.4M
Technology CoreU19AI135995 · NIAID · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI Kristian Graugaard Andersen · 2018 to 2026
$32.0M
The Multi-omics Vaccine Evaluation (MOVE) ConsortiumP01AI177683 · NIAID · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI Laura D. Hughes · 2023 to 2026
$9.0M
Genetic, structural and functional profiling of the human antibody response to arenavirus infectionR01AI171438 · NIAID · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI Raiees Ahmad Andrabi, Bryan Briney · 2022 to 2026
$4.4M
NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI177683NIAID NIH HHS P30 AI036214NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI171438NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI135995NIAID NIH HHS UM1 AI144462
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Scaling laws for large language models in natural language domains are typically derived under the assumption that performance is primarily compute-constrained. In contrast, antibody language models (AbLMs) trained on paired sequences are primarily data-limited, thus requiring different considerations. To explore how model size and data scale affect AbLM performance, we trained 15 AbLMs across all pairwise combinations of five model sizes and three training data sizes. From these experiments, we derive an AbLM-specific scaling law and estimate that training a data-optimal AbLM equivalent of the highly performant 650M-parameter ESM-2 protein language model would require ~5.5 million paired antibody sequences. Evaluation on multiple downstream classification tasks revealed that significant performance gains emerged only with sufficiently large model size, suggesting that in data-limited domains, improved performance depends jointly on both model scale and data volume.

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antibody language modelsdeep learningimmunologyscaling lawstransformers

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PMID40950134
PMCPMC12424686

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