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Protein language models learn powerful representations directly from sequences of amino acids. However, they are constrained to generate proteins with only the set of amino acids represented in their vocabulary. In contrast, chemical…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-21 Daniel Flam-Shepherd , Kevin Zhu , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

A reduced model, which can fold both helix and sheet structures, is proposed to study the problem of protein folding. The goal of this model is to find an unbiased effective potential that has included the effects of water and at the same…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Nan-yow Chen

This paper presents the \textbf{S}emantic-a\textbf{W}ar\textbf{E} spatial-t\textbf{E}mporal \textbf{T}okenizer (SweetTok), a novel video tokenizer to overcome the limitations in current video tokenization methods for compacted yet effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Zhentao Tan , Ben Xue , Jian Jia , Junhao Wang , Wencai Ye , Shaoyun Shi , Mingjie Sun , Wenjin Wu , Quan Chen , Peng Jiang

Vector Quantization (VQ) is a method for discretizing latent representations and has become a major part of the deep learning toolkit. It has been theoretically and empirically shown that discretization of representations leads to improved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Dianbo Liu , Alex Lamb , Xu Ji , Pascal Notsawo , Mike Mozer , Yoshua Bengio , Kenji Kawaguchi

The design of novel proteins has many applications but remains an attritional process with success in isolated cases. Meanwhile, deep learning technologies have exploded in popularity in recent years and are increasingly applicable to…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2018-11-07 Joe G Greener , Lewis Moffat , David T Jones

We introduce a deep learning architecture for structure-based virtual screening that generates fixed-sized fingerprints of proteins and small molecules by applying learnable atom convolution and softmax operations to each compound…

A fundamental problem in drug discovery is to design molecules that bind to specific proteins. To tackle this problem using machine learning methods, here we propose a novel and effective framework, known as GraphBP, to generate 3D…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-31 Meng Liu , Youzhi Luo , Kanji Uchino , Koji Maruhashi , Shuiwang Ji

With the rise of Transformers and Large Language Models (LLMs) in Chemistry and Biology, new avenues for the design and understanding of therapeutics have opened up to the scientific community. Protein sequences can be modeled as language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Seongwon Kim , Parisa Mollaei , Akshay Antony , Rishikesh Magar , Amir Barati Farimani

On the study of protein folding, our understanding about the protein structures is limited. In this paper we find one way to characterize the compact structures of lattice protein model. A quantity called Partnum is given to each compact…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Bin Wang , Zu-guo Yu

Tokenization plays a critical role in language modeling, yet existing approaches such as Byte-Pair Encoding (BPE) or WordPiece operate purely on frequency statistics, ignoring the underlying semantic structure of text. This leads to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Dong Liu , Yanxuan Yu

Protein design aims to compose amino-acid sequences that fold into stable three-dimensional structures while satisfying targeted functional properties. The field is increasingly shifting toward vibe protein design, where a single model is…

Modern multimodal large language models (MLLMs) typically keep the language model fixed and train a visual projector that maps the pixels into a sequence of tokens in its embedding space, so that images can be presented in essentially the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hyun Lee , Hyemin Jeong , Yejin Kim , Hyungwook Choi , Hyunsoo Cho , Soo Kyung Kim , Joonseok Lee

Protein structure tokenizers (PSTs) are workhorses in protein language modeling, function prediction, and evolutionary analysis. However, existing PSTs only capture local geometry of static structures, and miss the correlated motions and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Kaiwen Shi , Carlos Oliver

In this letter, the possible dynamic scaling properties of protein molecules in folding are investigated theoretically by assuming that the protein molecules are percolated networks. It is shown that the fractal character and the fractal…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Liang-Jian Zou , X. G. Gong , Zheng-Gang Zhu

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is a standard approach for adapting large language models to specialized domains, yet its application to protein sequence modeling and protein language models (PLMs) remains ad hoc. This is in part because…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Amin Tavakoli , Raswanth Murugan , Ozan Gokdemir , Arvind Ramanathan , Frances Arnold , Anima Anandkumar

Generating peptides with desired properties is crucial for drug discovery and biotechnology. Traditional sequence-based and structure-based methods often require extensive datasets, which limits their effectiveness. In this study, we…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-19 Po-Yu Liang , Xueting Huang , Tibo Duran , Andrew J. Wiemer , Jun Bai

Creating machines capable of understanding the world in 3D is essential in assisting designers that build and edit 3D environments and robots navigating and interacting within a three-dimensional space. Inspired by advances in language and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Aadarsh Sahoo , Vansh Tibrewal , Georgia Gkioxari

A fundamental goal of research in molecular biology is to understand protein structure. Protein crystallography is currently the most successful method for determining the three-dimensional (3D) conformation of a protein, yet it remains…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-11-17 L. Leherte , J. Glasgow , K. Baxter , E. Steeg , S. Fortier

Deep generative models that learn from the distribution of natural protein sequences and structures may enable the design of new proteins with valuable functions. While the majority of today's models focus on generating either sequences or…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-03 Chentong Wang , Sarah Alamdari , Carles Domingo-Enrich , Ava Amini , Kevin K. Yang

Prompt learning has achieved great success in efficiently exploiting large-scale pre-trained models in natural language processing (NLP). It reformulates the downstream tasks as the generative pre-training ones to achieve consistency, thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Ning Liao , Bowen Shi , Xiaopeng Zhang , Min Cao , Junchi Yan , Qi Tian