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Protein language models (pLMs), pre-trained via causal language modeling on protein sequences, have been a promising tool for protein sequence design. In real-world protein engineering, there are many cases where the amino acids in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Youhan Lee , Hasun Yu

Protein language models (pLMs) pre-trained on vast protein sequence databases excel at various downstream tasks but often lack the structural knowledge essential for some biological applications. To address this, we introduce a method to…

Expressing natural language descriptions of structured facts or relations -- data-to-text generation (D2T) -- increases the accessibility of structured knowledge repositories. Previous work shows that pre-trained language models(PLMs)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Moniba Keymanesh , Adrian Benton , Mark Dredze

The integration of molecular and natural language representations has emerged as a focal point in molecular science, with recent advancements in Language Models (LMs) demonstrating significant potential for comprehensive modeling of both…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-19 Qizhi Pei , Rui Yan , Kaiyuan Gao , Jinhua Zhu , Lijun Wu

Protein language models (pLMs) produce per-residue representations that capture evolutionary and structural information, yet their mean-pooled sequence embeddings are not explicitly trained to reflect functional, evolutionary or structural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Dan Ofer , Oriel Perets , Michal Linial , Nadav Rappoport

Proteins, as essential biomolecules, play a central role in biological processes, including metabolic reactions and DNA replication. Accurate prediction of their properties and functions is crucial in biological applications. Recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Wei Wu , Chao Wang , Liyi Chen , Mingze Yin , Yiheng Zhu , Kun Fu , Jieping Ye , Hui Xiong , Zheng Wang

Recent advances in protein language models (PLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in understanding protein sequences. However, the extent to which different model architectures capture antibody-specific biological properties…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Mengren , Liu , Yixiang Zhang , Yiming , Zhang

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

This paper introduces diffusion protein language model (DPLM), a versatile protein language model that demonstrates strong generative and predictive capabilities for protein sequences. We first pre-train scalable DPLMs from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Xinyou Wang , Zaixiang Zheng , Fei Ye , Dongyu Xue , Shujian Huang , Quanquan Gu

Proteins inherently possess a consistent sequence-structure duality. The abundance of protein sequence data, which can be readily represented as discrete tokens, has driven fruitful developments in protein language models (pLMs). A key…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yi Zhou , Haohao Qu , Yunqing Liu , Shanru Lin , Le Song , Wenqi Fan

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

Latent representation alignment has become a foundational technique for constructing multimodal large language models (MLLM) by mapping embeddings from different modalities into a shared space, often aligned with the embedding space of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Dong Shu , Bingbing Duan , Kai Guo , Kaixiong Zhou , Jiliang Tang , Mengnan Du

Protein language models (PLMs) have demonstrated remarkable success in protein modeling and design, yet their internal mechanisms for predicting structure and function remain poorly understood. Here we present a systematic approach to…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-18 Elana Simon , James Zou

Recent advances in protein large language models, such as ProtTeX, represent both side-chain amino acids and backbone structure as discrete token sequences of residue length. While this design enables unified modeling of multimodal protein…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Chuanliu Fan , Zicheng Ma , Jun Gao , Nan Yu , Jun Zhang , Ziqiang Cao , Yi Qin Gao , Guohong Fu

Protein language models (PLMs) face a fundamental divide: masked language models (MLMs) excel at fitness prediction while causal models enable generation, forcing practitioners to maintain separate architectures. We introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Furkan Eris

We introduce Concept Bottleneck Protein Language Models (CB-pLM), a generative masked language model with a layer where each neuron corresponds to an interpretable concept. Our architecture offers three key benefits: i) Control: We can…

Large pretrained language models have transformed natural language processing, and their adaptation to protein sequences -- viewed as strings of amino acid characters -- has advanced protein analysis. However, the distinct properties of…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-14 Sheikh Azizul Hakim , Kowshic Roy , M Saifur Rahman

Identification of protein-protein interactions (PPIs) helps derive cellular mechanistic understanding, particularly in the context of complex conditions such as neurodegenerative disorders, metabolic syndromes, and cancer. Large Language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Sanket Jantre , Tianle Wang , Gilchan Park , Kriti Chopra , Nicholas Jeon , Xiaoning Qian , Nathan M. Urban , Byung-Jun Yoon

Protein language models (PLMs) learn contextual representations from protein sequences and are profoundly impacting various scientific disciplines spanning protein design, drug discovery, and structural predictions. One particular research…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-02-07 Andreas Dounas , Tudor-Stefan Cotet , Alexander Yermanos

Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) have achieved great success on Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) over the past few years. Although the general language representation learned from large-scale corpora does benefit MRC, the poor support…

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