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Tom Sercu

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English conversational telephone speech recognition by humans and machines

…, G Kurata, T Sercu, K Audhkhasi, S Thomas… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2017 - arxiv.org
One of the most difficult speech recognition tasks is accurate recognition of human to human
communication. Advances in deep learning over the last few years have produced major …

Evolutionary-scale prediction of atomic-level protein structure with a language model

…, A dos Santos Costa, M Fazel-Zarandi, T Sercu… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Recent advances in machine learning have leveraged evolutionary information in multiple
sequence alignments to predict protein structure. We demonstrate direct inference of full …

Biological structure and function emerge from scaling unsupervised learning to 250 million protein sequences

A Rives, J Meier, T Sercu, S Goyal… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
In the field of artificial intelligence, a combination of scale in data and model capacity
enabled by unsupervised learning has led to major advances in representation learning and …

Language models enable zero-shot prediction of the effects of mutations on protein function

…, R Rao, R Verkuil, J Liu, T Sercu… - Advances in neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Modeling the effect of sequence variation on function is a fundamental problem for
understanding and designing proteins. Since evolution encodes information about function into …

MSA transformer

…, J Meier, J Canny, P Abbeel, T Sercu… - International …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
Unsupervised protein language models trained across millions of diverse sequences learn
structure and function of proteins. Protein language models studied to date have been …

Learning inverse folding from millions of predicted structures

…, R Verkuil, J Liu, Z Lin, B Hie, T Sercu… - International …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
We consider the problem of predicting a protein sequence from its backbone atom coordinates.
Machine learning approaches to this problem to date have been limited by the number of …

[PDF][PDF] Language models of protein sequences at the scale of evolution enable accurate structure prediction

…, W Lu, A dos Santos Costa, M Fazel-Zarandi, T Sercu… - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Large language models have recently been shown to develop emergent capabilities with
scale, going beyond simple pattern matching to perform higher level reasoning and generate …

[HTML][HTML] Accelerated antimicrobial discovery via deep generative models and molecular dynamics simulations

P Das, T Sercu, K Wadhawan, I Padhi… - Nature Biomedical …, 2021 - nature.com
The de novo design of antimicrobial therapeutics involves the exploration of a vast chemical
repertoire to find compounds with broad-spectrum potency and low toxicity. Here, we report …

Transformer protein language models are unsupervised structure learners

R Rao, J Meier, T Sercu, S Ovchinnikov, A Rives - Biorxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Unsupervised contact prediction is central to uncovering physical, structural, and functional
constraints for protein structure determination and design. For decades, the predominant …

Very deep multilingual convolutional neural networks for LVCSR

T Sercu, C Puhrsch, B Kingsbury… - 2016 IEEE international …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are a standard component of many current state-of-the-art
Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR) systems. However, …