EvoLlama: Enhancing LLMs' Understanding of Proteins via Multimodal Structure and Sequence Representations

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Autori principali: Liu, Nuowei, Sun, Changzhi, Ji, Tao, Tian, Junfeng, Tang, Jianxin, Wu, Yuanbin, Lan, Man
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author Liu, Nuowei
Sun, Changzhi
Ji, Tao
Tian, Junfeng
Tang, Jianxin
Wu, Yuanbin
Lan, Man
author_facet Liu, Nuowei
Sun, Changzhi
Ji, Tao
Tian, Junfeng
Tang, Jianxin
Wu, Yuanbin
Lan, Man
contents Current Large Language Models (LLMs) for understanding proteins primarily treats amino acid sequences as a text modality. Meanwhile, Protein Language Models (PLMs), such as ESM-2, have learned massive sequential evolutionary knowledge from the universe of natural protein sequences. Furthermore, structure-based encoders like ProteinMPNN learn the structural information of proteins through Graph Neural Networks. However, whether the incorporation of protein encoders can enhance the protein understanding of LLMs has not been explored. To bridge this gap, we propose EvoLlama, a multimodal framework that connects a structure-based encoder, a sequence-based protein encoder and an LLM for protein understanding. EvoLlama consists of a ProteinMPNN structure encoder, an ESM-2 protein sequence encoder, a multimodal projector to align protein and text representations and a Llama-3 text decoder. To train EvoLlama, we fine-tune it on protein-oriented instructions and protein property prediction datasets verbalized via natural language instruction templates. Our experiments show that EvoLlama's protein understanding capabilities have been significantly enhanced, outperforming other fine-tuned protein-oriented LLMs in zero-shot settings by an average of 1%-8% and surpassing the state-of-the-art baseline with supervised fine-tuning by an average of 6%. On protein property prediction datasets, our approach achieves promising results that are competitive with state-of-the-art task-specific baselines. We will release our code in a future version.
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spellingShingle EvoLlama: Enhancing LLMs' Understanding of Proteins via Multimodal Structure and Sequence Representations
Liu, Nuowei
Sun, Changzhi
Ji, Tao
Tian, Junfeng
Tang, Jianxin
Wu, Yuanbin
Lan, Man
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Current Large Language Models (LLMs) for understanding proteins primarily treats amino acid sequences as a text modality. Meanwhile, Protein Language Models (PLMs), such as ESM-2, have learned massive sequential evolutionary knowledge from the universe of natural protein sequences. Furthermore, structure-based encoders like ProteinMPNN learn the structural information of proteins through Graph Neural Networks. However, whether the incorporation of protein encoders can enhance the protein understanding of LLMs has not been explored. To bridge this gap, we propose EvoLlama, a multimodal framework that connects a structure-based encoder, a sequence-based protein encoder and an LLM for protein understanding. EvoLlama consists of a ProteinMPNN structure encoder, an ESM-2 protein sequence encoder, a multimodal projector to align protein and text representations and a Llama-3 text decoder. To train EvoLlama, we fine-tune it on protein-oriented instructions and protein property prediction datasets verbalized via natural language instruction templates. Our experiments show that EvoLlama's protein understanding capabilities have been significantly enhanced, outperforming other fine-tuned protein-oriented LLMs in zero-shot settings by an average of 1%-8% and surpassing the state-of-the-art baseline with supervised fine-tuning by an average of 6%. On protein property prediction datasets, our approach achieves promising results that are competitive with state-of-the-art task-specific baselines. We will release our code in a future version.
title EvoLlama: Enhancing LLMs' Understanding of Proteins via Multimodal Structure and Sequence Representations
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.11618