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Generative Latent Priors for Interpreting and Steering Protein Language Models
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Researchers applied Generative Latent Priors, a diffusion-based method, to interpret and edit protein language model activations in ESM-2.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers building interpretability tools for protein models or attempting to steer model outputs toward desired biochemical properties.
- Watch out
- Editing works in isolation but fails when sequences are re-embedded after multiple decoding rounds, compromising structural plausibility of results.
- language model
- eval
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