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Ming Qin

6 accepted papers

2025

Enhancing Safe and Controllable Protein Generation via Knowledge Preference Optimization

ACL 2025long

Protein language models have emerged as powerful tools for sequence generation, offering substantial advantages in functional optimization and *denovo* design. However, these models also present significant risks of generating harmful protein sequences, such as those that enhance viral transmissibil…

2024

DePLM: Denoising Protein Language Models for Property Optimization

NeurIPS 2024poster

Protein optimization is a fundamental biological task aimed at enhancing theperformance of proteins by modifying their sequences. Computational methodsprimarily rely on evolutionary information (EI) encoded by protein languagemodels (PLMs) to predict fitness landscape for optimization. However, thes…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2024

InstructProtein: Aligning Human and Protein Language via Knowledge Instruction

ACL 2024long

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized the field of natural language processing, but they fall short in comprehending biological sequences such as proteins. To address this challenge, we propose InstructProtein, an innovative LLM that possesses bidirectional generation capabilities in both…

2024

Knowledge-aware Reinforced Language Models for Protein Directed Evolution

ICML 2024poster

Directed evolution, a cornerstone of protein optimization, is to harness natural mutational processes to enhance protein functionality. Existing Machine Learning-assisted Directed Evolution (MLDE) methodologies typically rely on data-driven strategies and often overlook the profound domain knowledge…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2022

Molecular Contrastive Learning with Chemical Element Knowledge Graph

AAAI 2022technical

Molecular representation learning contributes to multiple downstream tasks such as molecular property prediction and drug design. To properly represent molecules, graph contrastive learning is a promising paradigm as it utilizes self-supervision signals and has no requirements for human annotations.…

2015

Contour Flow: Middle-Level Motion Estimation by Combining Motion Segmentation and Contour Alignment

ICCV 2015poster

Our goal is to estimate contour flow (the contour pairs with consistent point correspondence) from inconsistent contours extracted independently in two video frames. We formulate the contour flow estimation locally as a motion segmentation problem where motion patterns grouped from optical flow fiel…

Cited by 1PDFScholar