Pith. sign in

REVIEW 7 cited by

ProGen2: Exploring the Boundaries of Protein Language Models

Not yet reviewed by Pith; the record is open.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet. Machine review is queued; the pith claim, tier, and objections will appear here once it completes.

SPECIMEN: schema-true, not a live event

T0 review · schema-true

One-sentence machine reading of the paper's core claim.

pith:XXXXXXXX · record.json · timestamp

arxiv 2206.13517 v1 pith:DOPE75Z7 submitted 2022-06-27 cs.LG q-bio.QM

ProGen2: Exploring the Boundaries of Protein Language Models

classification cs.LG q-bio.QM
keywords proteinmodelsprogen2sequencesmodeldatadistributionlanguage
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal T4 reserved
0 comments
read the original abstract

Attention-based models trained on protein sequences have demonstrated incredible success at classification and generation tasks relevant for artificial intelligence-driven protein design. However, we lack a sufficient understanding of how very large-scale models and data play a role in effective protein model development. We introduce a suite of protein language models, named ProGen2, that are scaled up to 6.4B parameters and trained on different sequence datasets drawn from over a billion proteins from genomic, metagenomic, and immune repertoire databases. ProGen2 models show state-of-the-art performance in capturing the distribution of observed evolutionary sequences, generating novel viable sequences, and predicting protein fitness without additional finetuning. As large model sizes and raw numbers of protein sequences continue to become more widely accessible, our results suggest that a growing emphasis needs to be placed on the data distribution provided to a protein sequence model. We release the ProGen2 models and code at https://github.com/salesforce/progen.

discussion (0)

Sign in with ORCID, Apple, or X to comment. Anyone can read and Pith papers without signing in.

Forward citations

Cited by 7 Pith papers

Reviewed papers in the Pith corpus that reference this work. Sorted by Pith novelty score.

  1. ProteinJEPA: Latent prediction complements protein language models

    cs.LG 2026-05 unverdicted novelty 7.0

    Masked-position MLM plus JEPA latent prediction outperforms MLM-only pretraining on 10-11 of 16 downstream tasks for 35M-150M protein models while JEPA alone fails.

  2. Towards A Generative Protein Evolution Machine with DPLM-Evo

    cs.LG 2026-04 unverdicted novelty 6.0

    DPLM-Evo is an evolutionary discrete diffusion framework that models protein sequences via explicit substitution, insertion, and deletion operations, achieving state-of-the-art single-sequence mutation effect predicti...

  3. Towards A Generative Protein Evolution Machine with DPLM-Evo

    cs.LG 2026-04 unverdicted novelty 6.0

    DPLM-Evo adds explicit edit operations and a latent alignment space to discrete diffusion protein models, achieving SOTA single-sequence mutation effect prediction on ProteinGym while supporting variable-length generation.

  4. Towards A Generative Protein Evolution Machine with DPLM-Evo

    cs.LG 2026-04 unverdicted novelty 6.0

    DPLM-Evo introduces an evolutionary discrete diffusion framework with explicit edit prediction and contextual noising that claims SOTA single-sequence mutation effect prediction on ProteinGym while supporting variable...

  5. BloombergGPT: A Large Language Model for Finance

    cs.LG 2023-03 conditional novelty 6.0

    BloombergGPT is a 50B parameter LLM trained on a 708B token mixed financial and general dataset that outperforms prior models on financial benchmarks while preserving general LLM performance.

  6. Conditionally Site-Independent Neural Evolution of Antibody Sequences

    cs.LG 2026-02 conditional novelty 5.0

    A neural continuous-time Markov model of antibody affinity maturation that beats language models on fitness prediction and steers sampling toward antigen-specific binders.

  7. Galactica: A Large Language Model for Science

    cs.CL 2022-11 unverdicted novelty 5.0

    Galactica, a science-specialized LLM, reports higher scores than GPT-3, Chinchilla, and PaLM on LaTeX knowledge, mathematical reasoning, and medical QA benchmarks while outperforming general models on BIG-bench.