GB.Protein2StructureToken-16B is a fine-tuned version of GB.Protein-16B, for protein structure prediction.
This model uses amino acid sequences as input to predict tokens that can be decoded into 3D structures by GB.StructureDecoder.
It surpasses existing state-of-the-art models, such as ESM3-open, in structure prediction tasks, demonstrating its robustness and capability in this domain.
Model Architecture Details
This model retains the architecture of GB.Protein-16B, a transformer encoder-only architecture with dense MLP layers replaced by sparse Mixture of Experts (MoE) layers.
Each token activates 2 experts using a top-2 routing mechanism. A visual summary of the architecture is provided below:
GB.Protein-16B Architecture
Key Differences
The final output linear layer has been adapted to support a new vocabulary size:
Input Vocabulary Size: 44 (amino acids + special tokens)
Output Vocabulary Size: 512 (structure tokens without special tokens)
Architecture Parameters
Component
Value
Number of Attention Heads
36
Number of Hidden Layers
36
Hidden Size
2304
Number of MoE Layers per Block
8
Number of MoE Layers per Token
2
Input Vocabulary Size
44
Output Vocabulary Size
512
Context Length
1024
Training Details
The fine-tuning process used 0.4 trillion tokens, using AlphaFold database with 170M samples and PDB database with 0.4M samples, making it highly specialized for structure prediction. The training took around 20 days on 64 A100 GPUs.
Batch Size: Global batch size of 2048
Context Length: 1024
Precision: FP16
Hardware: 64 NVIDIA A100 80GB GPUs
Learning Rate: Max learning rate of 1e-4
Scheduler: Cosine decay with 2.5% warmup
Tokens Trained: 0.4T tokens
Training steps: 200k steps
Tokenization
The input sequence should be single-chain amino acid sequences.
Input Tokenization: The sequences are tokenized at the amino acid level and terminated with a [SEP] token (id=34).
Output Tokenization: Each input token is converted into a structure token. The output can be decoded into 3D structures in PDB format using GB.StructureDecoder.
Results
Structure Prediction Results
How to Use
Structure Prediction
To reproduce the structure prediction results described above, follow these steps:
Convert the output .tsv to .pt and extract model codebook:
bash
1# convert the predicted structures in tsv into one pt file2python experiments/GB.StructureTokenizer/struct_token_format_conversion.py logs/protein2structoken_16b/predict_predictions.tsv logs/protein2structoken_16b/predict_predictions.pt
3# extract the codebook of the structure tokenizer4python experiments/GB.StructureTokenizer/extract_structure_tokenizer_codebook.py --output_path logs/protein2structoken_16b/codebook.pt
Run the decoding command to get 3D structures in PDB format (currently this script only supports single GPU inference):
Alternatively, you can provide your own input amino acid sequence in a CSV file. Here is one example csv at experiments/GB.StructureTokenizer/protein2structoken_example_input.csv in ModelGenerator:
idx,aa_seq
example,KEFWNLDKNLQLRLGIVFLG
Here, idx is a unique name, and aa_seq is the amino acid sequence. To use this customized CSV file, replace the second step with
Please cite GB.Protein and GB.StructureTokenizer using the following BibTex codes:
@inproceedings{zhang_balancing_2024,
title = {Balancing Locality and Reconstruction in Protein Structure Tokenizer},
url = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.02.626366v2},
doi = {10.1101/2024.12.02.626366},
publisher = {bioRxiv},
author = {Zhang, Jiayou and Meynard-Piganeau, Barthelemy and Gong, James and Cheng, Xingyi and Luo, Yingtao and Ly, Hugo and Song, Le and Xing, Eric},
year = {2024},
booktitle={NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Machine Learning in Structural Biology (MLSB)},
}
@inproceedings{sun_mixture_2024,
title = {Mixture of Experts Enable Efficient and Effective Protein Understanding and Design},
url = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.29.625425v1},
doi = {10.1101/2024.11.29.625425},
publisher = {bioRxiv},
author = {Sun, Ning and Zou, Shuxian and Tao, Tianhua and Mahbub, Sazan and Li, Dian and Zhuang, Yonghao and Wang, Hongyi and Cheng, Xingyi and Song, Le and Xing, Eric P.},
year = {2024},
booktitle={NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on AI for New Drug Modalities},
}