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Tristan Bepler

6 accepted papers

2025

Understanding protein function with a multimodal retrieval-augmented foundation model

NeurIPS 2025poster

Protein language models (PLMs) learn probability distributions over natural protein sequences. By learning from hundreds of millions of natural protein sequences, protein understanding and design capabilities emerge. Recent works have shown that scaling these models improves structure prediction, bu…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

PoET: A generative model of protein families as sequences-of-sequences

NeurIPS 2023poster

Generative protein language models are a natural way to design new proteins with desired functions. However, current models are either difficult to direct to produce a protein from a specific family of interest, or must be trained on a large multiple sequence alignment (MSA) from the specific family…

2022

Unsupervised Object Representation Learning using Translation and Rotation Group Equivariant VAE

NeurIPS 2022accept

In many imaging modalities, objects of interest can occur in a variety of locations and poses (i.e. are subject to translations and rotations in 2d or 3d), but the location and pose of an object does not change its semantics (i.e. the object's essence). That is, the specific location and rotation of…

2020

Reconstructing continuous distributions of 3D protein structure from cryo-EM images

ICLR 2020spotlight

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a powerful technique for determining the structure of proteins and other macromolecular complexes at near-atomic resolution. In single particle cryo-EM, the central problem is to reconstruct the 3D structure of a macromolecule from $10^{4-7}$ noisy and randomly…

Cited by 127SourceScholar
2019

Explicitly disentangling image content from translation and rotation with spatial-VAE

NeurIPS 2019poster

Given an image dataset, we are often interested in finding data generative factors that encode semantic content independently from pose variables such as rotation and translation. However, current disentanglement approaches do not impose any specific structure on the learned latent representations.…