Jianwei Zhu — accepted AI-conference papers

2026

FlexProtein: Joint Sequence and Structure Pretraining for Protein Modeling

Jianwei Zhu, Yu Shi, Ran Bi, Peiran Jin, Chang Liu, Zhe Zhang +17

ICLR 2026poster

Protein foundation models have advanced rapidly, with most approaches falling into two dominant paradigms. Sequence-only language models (e.g., ESM-2) capture sequence semantics at scale but lack structural grounding. MSA-based predictors (e.g., AlphaFold 2/3) achieve accurate folding by exploiting…

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2021

Co-evolution Transformer for Protein Contact Prediction

He Zhang, Fusong Ju, Jianwei Zhu, Liang He, Bin Shao, Nanning Zheng +1

NeurIPS 2021poster

Proteins are the main machinery of life and protein functions are largely determined by their 3D structures. The measurement of the pairwise proximity between amino acids of a protein, known as inter-residue contact map, well characterizes the structural information of a protein. Protein contact pre…

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