Protein design can use hallucination as search

The work reframes hallucination as part of a search procedure rather than a bug to eliminate

We've been working on protein design with hallucination, and it turns out there's some nice optimisation theory behind this approach, beautifully explained by my colleague Magnus here: https:// magnusross.github.io/posts/reflecti ng-to-op
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