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We explore a framework for protein sequence representation learning that decomposes the task between manifold learning and distributional modelling. Specifically we present a Latent Space Diffusion architecture which combines a protein…

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The advent of deep learning has introduced efficient approaches for de novo protein sequence design, significantly improving success rates and reducing development costs compared to computational or experimental methods. However, existing…

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Proteins are fundamental components of biological systems and can be represented through various modalities, including sequences, structures, and textual descriptions. Despite the advances in deep learning and scientific large language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Zhiyuan Chen , Tianhao Chen , Chenggang Xie , Yang Xue , Xiaonan Zhang , Jingbo Zhou , Xiaomin Fang

Large language models (LLMs) effectively generate fluent text when the target output follows natural language patterns. However, structured prediction tasks confine the output format to a limited ontology, causing even very large models to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Derek Chen , Celine Lee , Yunan Lu , Domenic Rosati , Zhou Yu

Deciphering the function of unseen protein sequences is a fundamental challenge with broad scientific impact, yet most existing methods depend on task-specific adapters or large-scale supervised fine-tuning. We introduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Xinhui Chen , Zuchao Li , Mengqi Gao , Yufeng Zhang , Chak Tou Leong , Haoyang Li , Jiaqi Chen

Protein sequences serve as a natural record of the evolutionary constraints that shape their functional structures. We show that it is possible to use only sequence information to go beyond predicting native structures and global stability…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-02 Ezequiel A. Galpern , Ernesto A. Roman , Diego U. Ferreiro

Protein language models (PLMs) have emerged as powerful tools to detect complex patterns of protein sequences. However, the capability of PLMs to fully capture information on protein sequences might be limited by focusing on single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Hazem Alsamkary , Mohamed Elshaffei , Mohamed Elkerdawy , Ahmed Elnaggar

We present the Insertion Transformer, an iterative, partially autoregressive model for sequence generation based on insertion operations. Unlike typical autoregressive models which rely on a fixed, often left-to-right ordering of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Mitchell Stern , William Chan , Jamie Kiros , Jakob Uszkoreit

Large language models (LM) based on Transformers allow to generate plausible long texts. In this paper, we explore how this generation can be further controlled at decoding time to satisfy certain constraints (e.g. being non-toxic,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Antoine Chaffin , Vincent Claveau , Ewa Kijak

Modeling biological sequences such as DNA, RNA, and proteins is crucial for understanding complex processes like gene regulation and protein synthesis. However, most current models either focus on a single type or treat multiple types of…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-16 Weixi Xiang , Xueting Han , Xiujuan Chai , Jing Bai

This paper investigates the application of the transformer architecture in protein folding, as exemplified by DeepMind's AlphaFold project, and its implications for the understanding of so-called large language models. The prevailing…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Fabian Offert , Paul Kim , Qiaoyu Cai

The ability to computationally generate novel yet physically foldable protein structures could lead to new biological discoveries and new treatments targeting yet incurable diseases. Despite recent advances in protein structure prediction,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-28 Kevin E. Wu , Kevin K. Yang , Rianne van den Berg , James Y. Zou , Alex X. Lu , Ava P. Amini

To reduce experimental effort associated with directed protein evolution and to explore the sequence space encoded by mutating multiple positions simultaneously, we incorporate machine learning in the directed evolution workflow.…

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Excitement at the prospect of using data-driven generative models to sample configurational ensembles of biomolecular systems stems from the extraordinary success of these models on a diverse set of high-dimensional sampling tasks. Unlike…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-06 Shriram Chennakesavalu , Grant M. Rotskoff

Generating novel active molecules for a given protein is an extremely challenging task for generative models that requires an understanding of the complex physical interactions between the molecule and its environment. In this paper, we…

Protein language models have demonstrated significant potential in the field of protein engineering. However, current protein language models primarily operate at the residue scale, which limits their ability to provide information at the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-14 Kangjie Zheng , Siyu Long , Tianyu Lu , Junwei Yang , Xinyu Dai , Ming Zhang , Zaiqing Nie , Wei-Ying Ma , Hao Zhou

Deep learning has transformed protein design, enabling accurate structure prediction, sequence optimization, and de novo protein generation. Advances in single-chain protein structure prediction via AlphaFold2, RoseTTAFold, ESMFold, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Gregory W. Kyro , Tianyin Qiu , Victor S. Batista

A common training approach for language models involves using a large-scale language model to expand a human-provided dataset, which is subsequently used for model training.This method significantly reduces training costs by eliminating the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Minghang Zhu , Shen Gao , Zhengliang Shi , Jiabao Fang , Pengjie Ren , Zhaochun Ren , Zhumin Chen , Shuo Shang

Gene expression is a cellular process that plays a fundamental role in human phenotypical variations and diseases. Despite advances of deep learning models for gene expression prediction, recent benchmarks have revealed their inability to…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-04 Edouardo Honig , Huixin Zhan , Ying Nian Wu , Zijun Frank Zhang

Predicting the effect of mutations in proteins is one of the most critical challenges in protein engineering; by knowing the effect a substitution of one (or several) residues in the protein's sequence has on its overall properties, could…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-10-08 David Medina-Ortiz , Sebastian Contreras , Juan Amado-Hinojosa , Jorge Torres-Almonacid , Juan A. Asenjo , Marcelo Navarrete , Álvaro Olivera-Nappa