Yufeng Shen

Unsupervised discovery of functional sequence patterns from protein language model with MotifAE

Protein language models (pLMs) learn sequence patterns at evolutionary scale, but these patterns remain inaccessible within these “black box” models. To discover them, we developed MotifAE, an unsupervised framework based on the sparse autoencoder (SAE) architecture that projects pLM embeddings into an interpretable, s...