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Jailbreaking and what it teaches us about LLMs

LLM safeguards, the Swiss cheese model, persona hijacks, prefix injection, encoded prompts, many-shot attacks.

A visual guide to Keytruda

PD-1/PD-L1, immuno-oncology, checkpoint inhibition, binding visualizations, antibody anatomy.

From Kolmogorov to LLMs: The compression view of learning

The Minimum Description Length (MDL) principle, Kolmogorov complexity, linear regression, data compression and learning.

Protein language models through the logit lens

Applying the logit lens to ESM-2. Logit visualization & interpretation, attention analysis, looking inside the mind of a protein language model.

Protein VAEs

Predicting variant effects with variational autoencoders. DeepSequence, EVE, EVEScape. Machine learning for clinical decisions, improving pandemic preparedness by predicting antibody escape.

An introduction to variational autoencoders

Predicting protein function using deep generative models. Latent variable models, reconstruction, variational autoencoders (VAEs), Bayesian inference, evidence lower bound (ELBO).

Protein Inception

Protein design by hallucination. DeepDream, Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), KL divergence, gradient optimization, scaffolding functional sites, SARS-CoV-2 receptor traps.

How to represent a protein sequence

Learning protein representations. Transfer learning, protein language models, contextual embeddings, Transformers, masked language modeling, BERT, UniRep, ESM, attention analysis.

What we can learn from evolving proteins

Predicting protein structure and function. Multiple Sequence Alignments (MSAs), the protein folding problem, the Potts model, Direct Coupling Analysis (DCA), EVCouplings.