Biology's Secret Weapon: Physics-Based Benchmarks for Training RL Agents
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#reinforcement learning#biological benchmarks#protein design#rna design#computational biology#machine learning#alphafold#drug discovery
Why biological systems offer the ideal training ground for reinforcement learning: automated verification through physics, not human judgment. From protein design with AlphaFold to RNA folding with ViennaRNA, biology provides the verifiable inverse problems that RL needs at scale.