Improving Variant Effect Prediction by Steering Sparse Mechanistic Features in Protein Language Models
Mingqing Wang, Meng Yuan, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Yonghong He, Zhixiang Ren
This paper improves variant effect prediction by modifying protein language models with sparse mechanistic features, achieving significant performance gains across multiple datasets.
bioRxiv · May 15, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics