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ArticlePatterns (New York, N.Y.)2025

Tokenized and continuous embedding compressions of protein sequence and structure.

Amy X Lu, Wilson Yan, Kevin K Yang, Vladimir Gligorijevic, Kyunghyun Cho, Pieter Abbeel, Richard Bonneau, Nathan C Frey

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Article in Patterns (New York, N.Y.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Contrastive learning unites sequence and structure in a global representation of protein space.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  4. SLAE: Strictly Local All-atom Environment for Protein Representation.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  6. Language models reveal a complex sequence basis for adaptive convergent evolution of protein functions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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8 authors.

Amy X LuUniversity of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Wilson YanUniversity of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Kevin K YangMicrosoft Research New England, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Vladimir GligorijevicPrescient Design, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA.
Kyunghyun ChoPrescient Design, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA.
Pieter AbbeelUniversity of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Richard BonneauPrescient Design, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA.
Nathan C FreyPrescient Design, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Existing protein machine learning representations typically model either the sequence or structure distribution, with the other modality implicit. Here, we characterize an embedding of the joint distribution of protein sequence and structure by compressing the latent space of the protein folding model ESMFold. This provides mechanistic interpretability insights, as well as a flexible compressed representation. We term these CHEAP (compressed hourglass embedding adaptations of proteins) embeddings. In continuous compression schemes, the ESMFold latent space can be reduced by factors of 128

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model interpretabilityneural compressionprotein language modelsprotein structure tokenizationrepresentation learning

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PMID40575127
PMCPMC12191763

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