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Kevin K Yang

4 accepted papers

2024

Feature Reuse and Scaling: Understanding Transfer Learning with Protein Language Models

ICML 2024poster

Large pretrained protein language models (PLMs) have improved protein property and structure prediction from sequences via transfer learning, in which weights and representations from PLMs are repurposed for downstream tasks. Although PLMs have shown great promise, currently there is little understa…

Cited by 38SourcePDFScholar
2022

Exploring evolution-aware & -free protein language models as protein function predictors

NeurIPS 2022accept

Large-scale Protein Language Models (PLMs) have improved performance in protein prediction tasks, ranging from 3D structure prediction to various function predictions. In particular, AlphaFold, a ground-breaking AI system, could potentially reshape structural biology. However, the utility of the PLM…

2021

FLIP: Benchmark tasks in fitness landscape inference for proteins

NeurIPS 2021poster

Machine learning could enable an unprecedented level of control in protein engineering for therapeutic and industrial applications. Critical to its use in designing proteins with desired properties, machine learning models must capture the protein sequence-function relationship, often termed fitness…

Cited by 129SourceScholar
2019

Batched Stochastic Bayesian Optimization via Combinatorial Constraints Design

AISTATS 2019poster

In many high-throughput experimental design settings, such as those common in biochemical engineering, batched queries are often more cost effective than one-by-one sequential queries. Furthermore, it is often not possible to directly choose items to query. Instead, the experimenter specifies a set…

Cited by 25SourcePDFScholar