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Geometric deep learning has recently achieved great success in non-Euclidean domains, and learning on 3D structures of large biomolecules is emerging as a distinct research area. However, its efficacy is largely constrained due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Fang Wu , Lirong Wu , Dragomir Radev , Jinbo Xu , Stan Z. Li

Protein representation learning methods have shown great potential to yield useful representation for many downstream tasks, especially on protein classification. Moreover, a few recent studies have shown great promise in addressing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Can Chen , Jingbo Zhou , Fan Wang , Xue Liu , Dejing Dou

Proteins are intricate molecular machines whose complexity arises from the heterogeneity of the amino acid building blocks and their dynamic network of many-body interactions. These nanomachines gain function when put in the context of a…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-14 John M. McBride , Tsvi Tlusty

State-of-the-art deep-learning-based approaches to Natural Language Processing (NLP) are credited with various capabilities that involve reasoning with natural language texts. In this paper we carry out a large-scale empirical study…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Viktor Schlegel , Kamen V. Pavlov , Ian Pratt-Hartmann

Understanding biological processes, drug development, and biotechnological advancements requires a detailed analysis of protein structures and functions, a task that is inherently complex and time-consuming in traditional protein research.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Yijia Xiao , Edward Sun , Yiqiao Jin , Qifan Wang , Wei Wang

Protein language models (PLMs) have advanced computational protein science through large-scale pretraining and scalable architectures. In parallel, reinforcement learning (RL) has broadened exploration and enabled precise multi-objective…

Natural Language Processing (NLP) has witnessed a transformative leap with the advent of transformer-based architectures, which have significantly enhanced the ability of machines to understand and generate human-like text. This paper…

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Language models, especially transformer-based ones, have achieved colossal success in NLP. To be precise, studies like BERT for NLU and works like GPT-3 for NLG are very important. If we consider DNA sequences as a text written with an…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-21 Musa Nuri Ihtiyar , Arzucan Ozgur

Proteins, essential to biological systems, perform functions intricately linked to their three-dimensional structures. Understanding the relationship between protein structures and their amino acid sequences remains a core challenge in…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-04 Liang He , Peiran Jin , Yaosen Min , Shufang Xie , Lijun Wu , Tao Qin , Xiaozhuan Liang , Kaiyuan Gao , Yuliang Jiang , Tie-Yan Liu

Language Models (LMs) excel in understanding textual descriptions of proteins, as evident in biomedical question-answering tasks. However, their capability falters with raw protein data, such as amino acid sequences, due to a deficit in…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-22 Zhiyuan Liu , An Zhang , Hao Fei , Enzhi Zhang , Xiang Wang , Kenji Kawaguchi , Tat-Seng Chua

Large protein language models are adept at capturing the underlying evolutionary information in primary structures, offering significant practical value for protein engineering. Compared to natural language models, protein amino acid…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Yang Tan , Mingchen Li , Pan Tan , Ziyi Zhou , Huiqun Yu , Guisheng Fan , Liang Hong

Recent advances in deep neural language models combined with the capacity of large scale datasets have accelerated the development of natural language generation systems that produce fluent and coherent texts (to various degrees of success)…

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In recent years, research in the area of human-robot interaction has focused on developing robots capable of understanding complex human instructions and performing tasks in dynamic and diverse environments. These systems have a wide range…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Simone Colombani , Dimitri Ognibene , Giuseppe Boccignone

Natural language processing (NLP) has been traditionally applied to medicine, and generative large language models (LLMs) have become prominent recently. However, the differences between them across different medical tasks remain…

Computational protein design facilitates discovery of novel proteins with prescribed structure and functionality. Exciting designs were recently reported using novel data-driven methodologies that can be roughly divided into two categories:…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Cyril Malbranke , David Bikard , Simona Cocco , Rémi Monasson , Jérôme Tubiana

Studying protein mutations within amino acid sequences holds tremendous significance in life sciences. Protein language models (PLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in broad biological applications. However, due to architectural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Yizhen Luo , Zikun Nie , Massimo Hong , Suyuan Zhao , Hao Zhou , Zaiqing Nie

While protein language models (PLMs) are one of the most promising avenues of research for future de novo protein design, the way in which they transform sequences to hidden representations, as well as the information encoded in such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Kosio Beshkov , Anders Malthe-Sørenssen

Computational protein design is experiencing a transformation driven by AI/ML. However, the range of potential protein sequences and structures is astronomically vast, even for moderately sized proteins. Hence, achieving convergence between…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Aymen Alsaadi , Jonathan Ash , Mikhail Titov , Matteo Turilli , Andre Merzky , Shantenu Jha , Sagar Khare

The paradigm of large language models in natural language processing (NLP) has also shown promise in modeling biological languages, including proteins, RNA, and DNA. Both the auto-regressive generation paradigm and evaluation metrics have…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-04 Ke Liu , Shuaike Shen , Hao Chen