@inproceedings{ma-etal-2026-linear,
    title = "Linear Fitness Subspace in Protein Language Models Enables Sample-Efficient Directed Evolution",
    author = "Ma, SiYuan  and
      Xiao, Canran  and
      Xiao, Zikai  and
      Gao, Albert  and
      He, Liang  and
      Wang, Xuan-Yu  and
      Cao, Shuying  and
      Jia, Xiaojun",
    editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi  and
      Dev, Sunipa  and
      Li, Jessy  and
      Elliott, Desmond",
    booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {EMNLP} 2026",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.738/",
    pages = "15490--15511",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0"
}