ProtIR: Iterative Refinement between Retrievers and Predictors for Protein Function Annotation

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Autores principales: Zhang, Zuobai, Lu, Jiarui, Chenthamarakshan, Vijil, Lozano, Aurélie, Das, Payel, Tang, Jian
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author Zhang, Zuobai
Lu, Jiarui
Chenthamarakshan, Vijil
Lozano, Aurélie
Das, Payel
Tang, Jian
author_facet Zhang, Zuobai
Lu, Jiarui
Chenthamarakshan, Vijil
Lozano, Aurélie
Das, Payel
Tang, Jian
contents Protein function annotation is an important yet challenging task in biology. Recent deep learning advancements show significant potential for accurate function prediction by learning from protein sequences and structures. Nevertheless, these predictor-based methods often overlook the modeling of protein similarity, an idea commonly employed in traditional approaches using sequence or structure retrieval tools. To fill this gap, we first study the effect of inter-protein similarity modeling by benchmarking retriever-based methods against predictors on protein function annotation tasks. Our results show that retrievers can match or outperform predictors without large-scale pre-training. Building on these insights, we introduce a novel variational pseudo-likelihood framework, ProtIR, designed to improve function predictors by incorporating inter-protein similarity modeling. This framework iteratively refines knowledge between a function predictor and retriever, thereby combining the strengths of both predictors and retrievers. ProtIR showcases around 10% improvement over vanilla predictor-based methods. Besides, it achieves performance on par with protein language model-based methods, yet without the need for massive pre-training, highlighting the efficacy of our framework. Code will be released upon acceptance.
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spellingShingle ProtIR: Iterative Refinement between Retrievers and Predictors for Protein Function Annotation
Zhang, Zuobai
Lu, Jiarui
Chenthamarakshan, Vijil
Lozano, Aurélie
Das, Payel
Tang, Jian
Biomolecules
Machine Learning
Protein function annotation is an important yet challenging task in biology. Recent deep learning advancements show significant potential for accurate function prediction by learning from protein sequences and structures. Nevertheless, these predictor-based methods often overlook the modeling of protein similarity, an idea commonly employed in traditional approaches using sequence or structure retrieval tools. To fill this gap, we first study the effect of inter-protein similarity modeling by benchmarking retriever-based methods against predictors on protein function annotation tasks. Our results show that retrievers can match or outperform predictors without large-scale pre-training. Building on these insights, we introduce a novel variational pseudo-likelihood framework, ProtIR, designed to improve function predictors by incorporating inter-protein similarity modeling. This framework iteratively refines knowledge between a function predictor and retriever, thereby combining the strengths of both predictors and retrievers. ProtIR showcases around 10% improvement over vanilla predictor-based methods. Besides, it achieves performance on par with protein language model-based methods, yet without the need for massive pre-training, highlighting the efficacy of our framework. Code will be released upon acceptance.
title ProtIR: Iterative Refinement between Retrievers and Predictors for Protein Function Annotation
topic Biomolecules
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07955