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4 claims from 3 papers

1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Machine Learning in Bioinformatics

   MSA Transformer

   Rao, Liu, Verkuil et al. · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2021

   The authors introduce a protein language model that takes a multiple sequence alignment as input, combining single-sequence language models with family-based methods, and report strong structure-learning performance.

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   1. UncheckedA protein language model fed aligned sets of related sequences beats leading unsupervised structure-learning methods by a wide margin, using far fewer parameters.“The performance of the model surpasses current state-of-the-art unsupervised structure learning methods by a wide margin, with far greater parameter efficiency than prior state-of-the-art protein language models.”

2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Machine Learning in Bioinformatics

   ThermoFormer: Predicting Protein Melting Temperature Through Large-Scale Pretraining

   Li and Li · Catalysts · 2026

   The authors built ThermoFormer, a transformer model pre-trained on over 96 million protein sequences with growth-temperature labels, and report it performs well on several protein temperature prediction tasks.

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   1. UncheckedThermoFormer, a protein language model, is reported to beat earlier unsupervised pre-trained models on all the temperature-related tasks the authors tested.“The results show that ThermoFormer achieves state-of-the-art performance across all evaluated tasks, outperforming prior unsupervised pre-trained models.”

3. Computer Science › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning

   Composable Sparse Fine-Tuning for Cross-Lingual Transfer

   Alan, Ponti, Korhonen and Vulić · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2021

   The paper introduces a sparse fine-tuning method using learned masks that can be composed for task and language, and reports it outperforms adapters in zero-shot cross-lingual transfer.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper's sparse fine-tuning method beats adapters by a large margin at zero-shot cross-lingual transfer on several multilingual benchmarks.“Most importantly, it outperforms adapters in zero-shot cross-lingual transfer by a large margin in a series of multilingual benchmarks, including Universal Dependencies, MasakhaNER, and AmericasNLI.”
   2. UncheckedThe authors report that keeping fine-tuning sparse is crucial to prevent both interference between combined fine-tunings and overfitting.“Based on an in-depth analysis, we additionally find that sparsity is crucial to prevent both 1) interference between the fine-tunings to be composed and 2) overfitting.”