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by ddalex 613 days ago
Alpha* is not LLM-based, it's Q-learning based
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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.