Summary of Concept Bottleneck Language Models For Protein Design, by Aya Abdelsalam Ismail et al.
Concept Bottleneck Language Models For protein design
by Aya Abdelsalam Ismail, Tuomas Oikarinen, Amy Wang, Julius Adebayo, Samuel Stanton, Taylor Joren, Joseph Kleinhenz, Allen Goodman, Héctor Corrada Bravo, Kyunghyun Cho, Nathan C. Frey
First submitted to arxiv on: 9 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary Medium Difficulty summary: This paper introduces Concept Bottleneck Protein Language Models (CB-pLM), a novel architecture for masked language models that provides interpretability and control. The CB-pLM model has a unique layer where each neuron corresponds to an interpretable concept, allowing for precise control over generated proteins and transparent analysis of the decision-making process. The benefits of this architecture include controlled intervention on concept values, improved interpretability, and facilitated debugging of trained models. In experiments, the CB-pLM models achieve comparable performance to traditional masked protein language models in terms of pre-training perplexity and downstream task performance. This paper showcases the scalability of the CB-pLM architecture from 24 million to 3 billion parameters. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Low Difficulty summary: Imagine a special kind of computer program that can generate new proteins, which are tiny building blocks of life. This program is like a very smart dictionary that can understand and create words related to these proteins. What’s unique about this program is that it has a special layer where each part corresponds to a specific idea or concept. This allows scientists to control what kind of proteins the program generates and understand how it makes decisions. The authors of this paper show that their program can generate proteins as well as more traditional programs, but with the added benefit of being transparent about its thought process. They even train larger versions of this program, making them the largest and most capable of their kind. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Perplexity
