# La-Ribo: RNA Co-Design via Geometry-Latent Flow Matching

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12236 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.12236/

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## Abstract (arXiv)

RNA function arises from the coupling of nucleotide sequence and three-dimensional structure, motivating their joint design. Coordinating global folding with nucleotide-level detail remains challenging under limited structural supervision. We introduce La-Ribo, a generative framework for RNA sequence-structure co-design via geometry-latent flow matching. La-Ribo retains a sparse phosphate-sugar--base scaffold and encodes nucleotide identity and local conformation in residue-wise latents. A shared flow network generates both jointly, and an RNA-specific decoder then reconstructs all heavy atoms. To expand supervision, we construct a quality-controlled corpus of 168,561 RNA structures, integrating experimental data with predictions from three folding models, including 10,631 MSA-supported structures generated in this work. La-Ribo improves designability and codesignability over the evaluated baselines across sampling budgets and two refolding models, and the same prior supports scaffold-conditioned inverse folding without additional training.