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Code clone detection plays a critical role in software maintenance and vulnerability analysis. Substantial methods have been proposed to detect code clones. However, they struggle to extract high-level program semantics directly from a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Changguo Jia , Yi Zhan , Tianqi Zhao , Hengzhi Ye , Minghui Zhou

Investigating conformational landscapes of proteins is a crucial way to understand their biological functions and properties. AlphaFlow stands out as a sequence-conditioned generative model that introduces flexibility into structure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Shaoning Li , Mingyu Li , Yusong Wang , Xinheng He , Nanning Zheng , Jian Zhang , Pheng-Ann Heng

This paper presents a novel approach for predicting the relative populations of protein conformations using AlphaFold 2, an AI-powered method that has revolutionized biology by enabling the accurate prediction of protein structures. While…

Consistency and reliability are crucial for conducting AI research. Many famous research fields, such as object detection, have been compared and validated with solid benchmark frameworks. After AlphaFold2, the protein folding task has…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-01 Jaemyung Lee , Kyeongtak Han , Jaehoon Kim , Hasun Yu , Youhan Lee

Despite considerable progress, ab initio protein structure prediction remains suboptimal. A crowdsourcing approach is the online puzzle video game Foldit, that provided several useful results that matched or even outperformed…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-11-09 Dimitra N. Panou , Martin Reczko

The seminal breakthrough of AlphaFold in protein structure prediction relied on a learned potential energy function parameterized by deep models, in contrast to its successors AlphaFold2 and AlphaFold3, which lack an explicit probabilistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Thomas Hamelryck , Kanti V. Mardia

The rapid scaling of large language model training requires distributing GPU resources across multiple data center buildings and regions. We refer to such paradigm as "scale-across" training. As infrastructure expands, the system design…

Training on edge devices poses several challenges as these devices are generally resource-constrained, especially in terms of power. State-of-the-art techniques at the device level reduce the GPU frequency to enforce power constraints,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Mohamed Aboelenien Ahmed , Kilian Pfeiffer , Heba Khdr , Osama Abboud , Ramin Khalili , Jörg Henkel

How proteins fold remains a central unsolved problem in biology. While the idea of a folding code embedded in the amino acid sequence was introduced more than 6 decades ago, this code remains undefined. While we now have powerful predictive…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-04 Carlos Bustamante , Christian Kaiser , Erik Lindahl , Robert Sosa , Giovanni Volpe

AlphaFold can be used for both single-chain and multi-chain protein structure prediction, while the latter becomes extremely challenging as the number of chains increases. In this work, by taking each chain as a node and assembly actions as…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Ziqi Gao , Tao Feng , Jiaxuan You , Chenyi Zi , Yan Zhou , Chen Zhang , Jia Li

After AlphaFold won the Nobel Prize, protein prediction with deep learning once again became a hot topic. We comprehensively explore advanced deep learning methods applied to protein structure prediction and design. It begins by examining…

EfficientNets are a family of state-of-the-art image classification models based on efficiently scaled convolutional neural networks. Currently, EfficientNets can take on the order of days to train; for example, training an EfficientNet-B0…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Arissa Wongpanich , Hieu Pham , James Demmel , Mingxing Tan , Quoc Le , Yang You , Sameer Kumar

Protein structures and functions are determined by a contiguous arrangement of amino acid sequences. Designing novel protein sequences and structures with desired geometry and functions is a complex task with large state spaces. Here we…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-09-01 Xeerak Agha , Nihang Fu , Jianjun Hu

Speeding up the large-scale distributed training is challenging in that it requires improving various components of training including load balancing, communication, optimizers, etc. We present novel approaches for fast large-scale training…

Benchmark datasets are crucial for evaluating approaches to scheduling or dispatching in the semiconductor industry during the development and deployment phases. However, commonly used benchmark datasets like the Minifab or SMT2020 lack the…

The reproduction of state-of-the-art multimodal LLM pre-training faces barriers at every stage of the pipeline, including high-quality data filtering, multimodal data mixture strategies, sequence packing techniques, and training frameworks.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Weizhi Wang , Yu Tian , Linjie Yang , Heng Wang , Xifeng Yan

Scaling training compute, measured in FLOPs, has long been shown to improve the accuracy of large language models, yet training remains resource-intensive. Prior work shows that increasing test-time compute (TTC)-for example through…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Hossam Amer , Maryam Dialameh , Hossein Rajabzadeh , Walid Ahmed , Weiwei Zhang , Yang Liu

Synchronized stochastic gradient descent (SGD) optimizers with data parallelism are widely used in training large-scale deep neural networks. Although using larger mini-batch sizes can improve the system scalability by reducing the…

Deep Learning (DL) algorithms are the central focus of modern machine learning systems. As data volumes keep growing, it has become customary to train large neural networks with hundreds of millions of parameters to maintain enough capacity…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Beidi Chen , Tharun Medini , James Farwell , Sameh Gobriel , Charlie Tai , Anshumali Shrivastava

Protein structure prediction is a critical and longstanding challenge in biology, garnering widespread interest due to its significance in understanding biological processes. A particular area of focus is the prediction of missing loops in…