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by KasianFranks 613 days ago
And, at the heart of AlphaFold2 is the language model, the tip of the spear in AI today. 'Language' can come in many forms e.g. a protein or amino acid sequence.
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Alpha* is not LLM-based, it's Q-learning based
AlphaFold 2 wasn't Q-learning based. It was supervised SGD and the "evoformer" they introduced is very close to a transformer. So it's not exactly an LLM, but it's a pretty close equivalent for protein data.