Summary of Diffusion Model with Representation Alignment For Protein Inverse Folding, by Chenglin Wang et al.
Diffusion Model with Representation Alignment for Protein Inverse Folding
by Chenglin Wang, Yucheng Zhou, Zijie Zhai, Jianbing Shen, Kai Zhang
First submitted to arxiv on: 12 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed method leverages diffusion models with representation alignment (DMRA) to enhance protein inverse folding, a fundamental problem in bioinformatics. The approach enhances diffusion-based inverse folding by proposing a shared center that aggregates contextual information from the entire protein structure and selectively distributes it to each residue, as well as aligning noisy hidden representations with clean semantic representations during the denoising process. This is achieved through predefined semantic representations for amino acid types and a representation alignment method that utilizes type embeddings as semantic feedback to normalize each residue. Experimental evaluations on the CATH4.2 dataset demonstrate that DMRA outperforms leading methods, achieving state-of-the-art performance and exhibiting strong generalization capabilities on the TS50 and TS500 datasets. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Protein inverse folding is a big problem in bioinformatics. Researchers want to figure out what amino acid sequences are needed for a given protein structure. Most current methods aren’t good enough because they don’t capture all the important relationships between different parts of the protein. This new method uses something called diffusion models with representation alignment (DMRA). It works by looking at the whole protein structure and sharing information to each part, then cleaning up noisy information and aligning it with better information. The method does really well on a big dataset and is good at generalizing to other datasets too. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Diffusion » Generalization
