Model

ESM-2

ESM-2 is a family of protein sequence encoders that produce representations for downstream protein analyses.

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facebookresearch/esm: README.md; facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D: README.md; facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D: config.json · ESM README: Pre-trained Models and Main models; official facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D README licence metadata and config.json

3 evaluations · 11 results

How it worksESM-2 workflow

Conceptual summary of the documented data flow; optional inputs and configured downstream stages must be reported for a reproducible evaluation.

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Overview

Model type

Masked-token protein transformer encoder

Inputs

Single amino-acid sequences.

Outputs

Residue embeddings, sequence representations and masked-token predictions.

Access

Official project documentation and implementation: https://github.com/facebookresearch/esm

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Configuration: ESM2 8M	Protocol: Held-out human-versus-virus protein classification (human-versus-viral protein classification) Dataset: human and viral proteins	92.2% Prec. percent · higher Uncertainty: Not reported Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible	Author-reported evaluation · Source checked Methods, coverage and source ESM2 8M: Held-out human-versus-virus protein classification Compare protein origin classifiers; T 5 embeddings plus linear/tree models vs ESM 2 fine-tuning and simple controls. UniRef90 deduplication; proteins longer than1,600 residues excluded; UniRef50 clusters assigned80% training and20% test with no cluster shared. Separate four-fold error-analysis experiment not assigned toTable1. Aggregation: Not reported Protein Language Models Expose Viral Immune Mimicry · Table 1, row ESM2 8M, column Prec.; XML row4 column4
Configuration: ESM2 8M	Protocol: Held-out human-versus-virus protein classification (human-versus-viral protein classification) Dataset: human and viral proteins	92.3% Recall percent · higher Uncertainty: Not reported Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible	Author-reported evaluation · Source checked Methods, coverage and source ESM2 8M: Held-out human-versus-virus protein classification Compare protein origin classifiers; T 5 embeddings plus linear/tree models vs ESM 2 fine-tuning and simple controls. UniRef90 deduplication; proteins longer than1,600 residues excluded; UniRef50 clusters assigned80% training and20% test with no cluster shared. Separate four-fold error-analysis experiment not assigned toTable1. Aggregation: Not reported Protein Language Models Expose Viral Immune Mimicry · Table 1, row ESM2 8M, column Recall; XML row4 column5
Configuration: ESM2 8M	Protocol: Held-out human-versus-virus protein classification (human-versus-viral protein classification) Dataset: human and viral proteins	98.1% AUROC percent · higher Uncertainty: Not reported Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible	Author-reported evaluation · Source checked Methods, coverage and source ESM2 8M: Held-out human-versus-virus protein classification Compare protein origin classifiers; T 5 embeddings plus linear/tree models vs ESM 2 fine-tuning and simple controls. UniRef90 deduplication; proteins longer than1,600 residues excluded; UniRef50 clusters assigned80% training and20% test with no cluster shared. Separate four-fold error-analysis experiment not assigned toTable1. Aggregation: Not reported Protein Language Models Expose Viral Immune Mimicry · Table 1, row ESM2 8M, column AUC (%); XML row4 column2
Configuration: ESM2 8M	Protocol: Held-out human-versus-virus protein classification (human-versus-viral protein classification) Dataset: human and viral proteins	94.7% Accur. percent · higher Uncertainty: Not reported Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible	Author-reported evaluation · Source checked Methods, coverage and source ESM2 8M: Held-out human-versus-virus protein classification Compare protein origin classifiers; T 5 embeddings plus linear/tree models vs ESM 2 fine-tuning and simple controls. UniRef90 deduplication; proteins longer than1,600 residues excluded; UniRef50 clusters assigned80% training and20% test with no cluster shared. Separate four-fold error-analysis experiment not assigned toTable1. Aggregation: Not reported Protein Language Models Expose Viral Immune Mimicry · Table 1, row ESM2 8M, column Accur.; XML row4 column3
Configuration: ESM-2 8M masked-marginal scoring (ProteinGym v1.3 AMFR substitution assay)	Protocol: ProteinGym v1.3 AMFR substitution assay Dataset subset: ProteinGym v1.3 AMFR substitution assay full assay	0.394 AUC dimensionless · higher Uncertainty: Not reported Coverage: 2972/2972	Rewire evaluation · Source checked Methods, coverage and source ESM-2 8M masked-marginal scoring on ProteinGym v1.3 AMFR substitution assay ProteinGym v1.3 AMFR substitution assay Aggregation: Not reported ESM-2 8M masked-marginal scoring: local execution report (20 September 2026); ESM-2 8M masked-marginal scoring: automated execution audit · protocol_results.per_assay.AMFR_HUMAN_Tsuboyama_2023_4G3O.metrics.AUC
Configuration: ESM-2 8M masked-marginal scoring (ProteinGym v1.3 AMFR substitution assay)	Protocol: ProteinGym v1.3 AMFR substitution assay Dataset subset: ProteinGym v1.3 AMFR substitution assay full assay	-0.139 MCC dimensionless · higher Uncertainty: Not reported Coverage: 2972/2972	Rewire evaluation · Source checked Methods, coverage and source ESM-2 8M masked-marginal scoring on ProteinGym v1.3 AMFR substitution assay ProteinGym v1.3 AMFR substitution assay Aggregation: Not reported ESM-2 8M masked-marginal scoring: local execution report (20 September 2026); ESM-2 8M masked-marginal scoring: automated execution audit · protocol_results.per_assay.AMFR_HUMAN_Tsuboyama_2023_4G3O.metrics.MCC
Configuration: ESM-2 8M masked-marginal scoring (ProteinGym v1.3 AMFR substitution assay)	Protocol: ProteinGym v1.3 AMFR substitution assay Dataset subset: ProteinGym v1.3 AMFR substitution assay full assay	0.44 NDCG dimensionless · higher Uncertainty: Not reported Coverage: 2972/2972	Rewire evaluation · Source checked Methods, coverage and source ESM-2 8M masked-marginal scoring on ProteinGym v1.3 AMFR substitution assay ProteinGym v1.3 AMFR substitution assay Aggregation: Not reported ESM-2 8M masked-marginal scoring: local execution report (20 September 2026); ESM-2 8M masked-marginal scoring: automated execution audit · protocol_results.per_assay.AMFR_HUMAN_Tsuboyama_2023_4G3O.metrics.NDCG
Configuration: ESM-2 8M masked-marginal scoring (ProteinGym v1.3 AMFR substitution assay)	Protocol: ProteinGym v1.3 AMFR substitution assay Dataset subset: ProteinGym v1.3 AMFR substitution assay full assay	-0.209 Spearman dimensionless · higher Uncertainty: Not reported Coverage: 2972/2972	Rewire evaluation · Source checked Methods, coverage and source ESM-2 8M masked-marginal scoring on ProteinGym v1.3 AMFR substitution assay ProteinGym v1.3 AMFR substitution assay Aggregation: Not reported ESM-2 8M masked-marginal scoring: local execution report (20 September 2026); ESM-2 8M masked-marginal scoring: automated execution audit · protocol_results.per_assay.AMFR_HUMAN_Tsuboyama_2023_4G3O.metrics.Spearman
Configuration: ESM-2 8M masked-marginal scoring (ProteinGym v1.3 AMFR substitution assay)	Protocol: ProteinGym v1.3 AMFR substitution assay Dataset subset: ProteinGym v1.3 AMFR substitution assay full assay	0.057 Top_recall dimensionless · higher Uncertainty: Not reported Coverage: 2972/2972	Rewire evaluation · Source checked Methods, coverage and source ESM-2 8M masked-marginal scoring on ProteinGym v1.3 AMFR substitution assay ProteinGym v1.3 AMFR substitution assay Aggregation: Not reported ESM-2 8M masked-marginal scoring: local execution report (20 September 2026); ESM-2 8M masked-marginal scoring: automated execution audit · protocol_results.per_assay.AMFR_HUMAN_Tsuboyama_2023_4G3O.metrics.Top_recall
Configuration: ESM-2 8M frozen residue-mean embeddings + fixed ridge (Rewire) (FLIP2 Rhomax by_wild_type)	Protocol: FLIP2 Rhomax by_wild_type Dataset subset: FLIP2 Rhomax by_wild_type test subset	0.896 ndcg dimensionless · higher Uncertainty: Not reported Coverage: 184/184	Rewire evaluation · Source checked Methods, coverage and source ESM-2 8M frozen residue-mean embeddings + fixed ridge (Rewire) on FLIP2 Rhomax by_wild_type FLIP2 Rhomax by_wild_type Aggregation: Not reported ESM-2 8M frozen residue-mean embeddings + fixed ridge (Rewire): report; ESM-2 8M frozen residue-mean embeddings + fixed ridge (Rewire): audit · metrics.ndcg
Configuration: ESM-2 8M frozen residue-mean embeddings + fixed ridge (Rewire) (FLIP2 Rhomax by_wild_type)	Protocol: FLIP2 Rhomax by_wild_type Dataset subset: FLIP2 Rhomax by_wild_type test subset	-0.146 spearman dimensionless · higher Uncertainty: Not reported Coverage: 184/184	Rewire evaluation · Source checked Methods, coverage and source ESM-2 8M frozen residue-mean embeddings + fixed ridge (Rewire) on FLIP2 Rhomax by_wild_type FLIP2 Rhomax by_wild_type Aggregation: Not reported ESM-2 8M frozen residue-mean embeddings + fixed ridge (Rewire): report; ESM-2 8M frozen residue-mean embeddings + fixed ridge (Rewire): audit · metrics.spearman

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How it works

ESM-2 tokenizes an amino-acid sequence and uses a transformer encoder trained to recover masked residues. Self-attention lets each residue representation depend on its sequence context. The released model returns token probabilities and embeddings; a specified pooling rule, task head or complete folding pipeline is needed for a particular biological prediction.

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ESM-2 checkpoint identifiers encode layer count, parameter scale and training-data tag. The checked esm2_t33_650M_UR50D configuration lists max_position_embeddings=1,026. This configuration field includes model positions and is not a claim of training or validated inference on 1,026 amino acids.

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Strengths, limitations and unresolved questions

Strengths and limitations

Strengths and considerations

Released checkpoints span several sizes and can be used without constructing a multiple sequence alignment.
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facebookresearch/esm: README.md; facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D: README.md; facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D: config.json · ESM README: Pre-trained Models and Main models; official facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D README licence metadata and config.json

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A general embedding is not a directly measured function or structure. Fine-tuning, pooling and downstream heads remain part of each evaluated configuration.
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facebookresearch/esm: README.md; facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D: README.md; facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D: config.json · ESM README: Pre-trained Models and Main models; official facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D README licence metadata and config.json

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Property	Description and evidence
Model type	Masked-token protein transformer encoder Sources (3) facebookresearch/esm: README.md; facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D: README.md; facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D: config.json · ESM README: Pre-trained Models and Main models; official facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D README licence metadata and config.json
Architecture	Masked-token protein transformer encoder; the checked 650M checkpoint has 33 layers, hidden width 1,280, 20 attention heads and rotary positional encoding. Sources (3) facebookresearch/esm: README.md; facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D: README.md; facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D: config.json · ESM README: Pre-trained Models and Main models; official facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D README licence metadata and config.json
Inputs	Single amino-acid sequences. Sources (3) facebookresearch/esm: README.md; facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D: README.md; facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D: config.json · ESM README: Pre-trained Models and Main models; official facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D README licence metadata and config.json
Outputs	Residue embeddings, sequence representations and masked-token predictions. Sources (3) facebookresearch/esm: README.md; facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D: README.md; facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D: config.json · ESM README: Pre-trained Models and Main models; official facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D README licence metadata and config.json
Parameters	Released scales: 8M, 35M, 150M, 650M, 3B and 15B. Sources (3) facebookresearch/esm: README.md; facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D: README.md; facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D: config.json · ESM README: Pre-trained Models and Main models; official facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D README licence metadata and config.json
Known versions	ESM-2 checkpoint identifiers encode layer count, parameter scale and training-data tag. Sources (3) facebookresearch/esm: README.md; facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D: README.md; facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D: config.json · ESM README: Pre-trained Models and Main models; official facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D README licence metadata and config.json
Training data	UniRef50 clusters with UniRef90 sampling; the pretrained-model table labels UR50/D 2021_04. Sources (3) facebookresearch/esm: README.md; facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D: README.md; facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D: config.json · ESM README: Pre-trained Models and Main models; official facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D README licence metadata and config.json
Training cutoff	The inspected official table establishes an April 2021 UniRef release, but no separate latest-deposited-sequence date. Keep the corpus release distinct from a temporal leakage guarantee. · Not reported in inspected sources Sources facebookresearch/esm: README.md · README: Pre-trained Models and Pre-training Dataset Split
Context limits	The official extraction script truncates to 1,022 residues by default; --truncation_seq_length is configurable. This workflow default is not a universal architecture or validated biological-context limit. Sources esm2 extract: primary artifact · create_parser: --truncation_seq_length; run: get_batch_converter
Weights licence	The official facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D model card declares MIT; this is the inspected checkpoint, not a licence inference from source code. Sources (3) facebookresearch/esm: README.md; facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D: README.md; facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D: config.json · ESM README: Pre-trained Models and Main models; official facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D README licence metadata and config.json
Access	Official project documentation and implementation: https://github.com/facebookresearch/esm Sources (3) facebookresearch/esm: README.md; facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D: README.md; facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D: config.json · ESM README: Pre-trained Models and Main models; official facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D README licence metadata and config.json
Code licence	MIT Sources facebookresearch/esm: LICENSE · LICENSE: licence text
Reference checkpoint	Example release: facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D at 08e4846e537177426273712802403f7ba8261b6c. Its model.safetensors has registry-reported SHA-256 a08adabb949fa67ad3c14b509d04fd60368b35007b0095e3358f81200c4f4db0. This identifies a downloadable 650M checkpoint, not every ESM-2 evaluation. Sources esm2 release: primary artifact · sha; siblings[model.safetensors].lfs.sha256
Training data release	The official pretrained-model table labels ESM-2 training data UR50/D 2021_04. Sources facebookresearch/esm: README.md · README: Pre-trained Models table, ESM-2 rows

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Diagram caption Conceptual summary of the documented data flow; optional inputs and configured downstream stages must be reported for a reproducible evaluation. Individual claims	facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D: config.json Original source ↗ ESM README: Pre-trained Models and Main models; official facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D README licence metadata and config.json Shared locator for this statement’s cited sources; not a separate locator for each citation. Version: 08e4846e537177426273712802403f7ba8261b6c Retrieved: 2026-09-16T20:04:02.230771+00:00	source checked automated source review · 2026-09-23 Audit details Follow-up review of Reference checkpoint, Context limits, Training data release, Training cutoff. Source locations and before/after decisions are recorded in the 23 September profile-evidence audit. Other explanatory content retains its earlier source scope. No human scientific review or independent reproduction is implied. Field: `attributes.profile.diagram.caption` Source artifact SHA-256: `539095c22efc52a09d6147074ba4ca119f76a890df5901213b2b55f7d2f96b2b` Hash scope: SHA-256 of retrieved original artifact bytes Format: original_artifact Inspected artifact
Diagram caption Conceptual summary of the documented data flow; optional inputs and configured downstream stages must be reported for a reproducible evaluation. Individual claims	facebookresearch/esm: README.md Original source ↗ ESM README: Pre-trained Models and Main models; official facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D README licence metadata and config.json Shared locator for this statement’s cited sources; not a separate locator for each citation. Version: 2b369911bb5b4b0dda914521b9475cad1656b2ac Retrieved: 2026-09-16T19:46:19.090082+00:00	source checked automated source review · 2026-09-23 Audit details Follow-up review of Reference checkpoint, Context limits, Training data release, Training cutoff. Source locations and before/after decisions are recorded in the 23 September profile-evidence audit. Other explanatory content retains its earlier source scope. No human scientific review or independent reproduction is implied. Field: `attributes.profile.diagram.caption` Source artifact SHA-256: `8b273c21a322fc9473d1b68d0dd40c8166ab2f89e4a190aa26ca87251b97cba9` Hash scope: SHA-256 of retrieved original artifact bytes Format: original_artifact Inspected artifact
Diagram caption Conceptual summary of the documented data flow; optional inputs and configured downstream stages must be reported for a reproducible evaluation. Individual claims	facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D: README.md Original source ↗ ESM README: Pre-trained Models and Main models; official facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D README licence metadata and config.json Shared locator for this statement’s cited sources; not a separate locator for each citation. Version: 08e4846e537177426273712802403f7ba8261b6c Retrieved: 2026-09-16T20:04:02.230771+00:00	source checked automated source review · 2026-09-23 Audit details Follow-up review of Reference checkpoint, Context limits, Training data release, Training cutoff. Source locations and before/after decisions are recorded in the 23 September profile-evidence audit. Other explanatory content retains its earlier source scope. No human scientific review or independent reproduction is implied. Field: `attributes.profile.diagram.caption` Source artifact SHA-256: `462a2f24724e19c6be0efab926315c294a863c9a9770e2c8b3d859b2d81a07de` Hash scope: SHA-256 of retrieved original artifact bytes Format: original_artifact Inspected artifact
Diagram steps Protein sequence Transformer layers Residue embeddings Specified downstream analysis Individual claims	facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D: config.json Original source ↗ ESM README: Pre-trained Models and Main models; official facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D README licence metadata and config.json Shared locator for this statement’s cited sources; not a separate locator for each citation. Version: 08e4846e537177426273712802403f7ba8261b6c Retrieved: 2026-09-16T20:04:02.230771+00:00	source checked automated source review · 2026-09-23 Audit details Follow-up review of Reference checkpoint, Context limits, Training data release, Training cutoff. Source locations and before/after decisions are recorded in the 23 September profile-evidence audit. Other explanatory content retains its earlier source scope. No human scientific review or independent reproduction is implied. Field: `attributes.profile.diagram.steps` Source artifact SHA-256: `539095c22efc52a09d6147074ba4ca119f76a890df5901213b2b55f7d2f96b2b` Hash scope: SHA-256 of retrieved original artifact bytes Format: original_artifact Inspected artifact
Diagram steps Protein sequence Transformer layers Residue embeddings Specified downstream analysis Individual claims	facebookresearch/esm: README.md Original source ↗ ESM README: Pre-trained Models and Main models; official facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D README licence metadata and config.json Shared locator for this statement’s cited sources; not a separate locator for each citation. Version: 2b369911bb5b4b0dda914521b9475cad1656b2ac Retrieved: 2026-09-16T19:46:19.090082+00:00	source checked automated source review · 2026-09-23 Audit details Follow-up review of Reference checkpoint, Context limits, Training data release, Training cutoff. Source locations and before/after decisions are recorded in the 23 September profile-evidence audit. Other explanatory content retains its earlier source scope. No human scientific review or independent reproduction is implied. Field: `attributes.profile.diagram.steps` Source artifact SHA-256: `8b273c21a322fc9473d1b68d0dd40c8166ab2f89e4a190aa26ca87251b97cba9` Hash scope: SHA-256 of retrieved original artifact bytes Format: original_artifact Inspected artifact
Diagram steps Protein sequence Transformer layers Residue embeddings Specified downstream analysis Individual claims	facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D: README.md Original source ↗ ESM README: Pre-trained Models and Main models; official facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D README licence metadata and config.json Shared locator for this statement’s cited sources; not a separate locator for each citation. Version: 08e4846e537177426273712802403f7ba8261b6c Retrieved: 2026-09-16T20:04:02.230771+00:00	source checked automated source review · 2026-09-23 Audit details Follow-up review of Reference checkpoint, Context limits, Training data release, Training cutoff. Source locations and before/after decisions are recorded in the 23 September profile-evidence audit. Other explanatory content retains its earlier source scope. No human scientific review or independent reproduction is implied. Field: `attributes.profile.diagram.steps` Source artifact SHA-256: `462a2f24724e19c6be0efab926315c294a863c9a9770e2c8b3d859b2d81a07de` Hash scope: SHA-256 of retrieved original artifact bytes Format: original_artifact Inspected artifact
Diagram title ESM-2 workflow Individual claims	facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D: config.json Original source ↗ ESM README: Pre-trained Models and Main models; official facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D README licence metadata and config.json Shared locator for this statement’s cited sources; not a separate locator for each citation. Version: 08e4846e537177426273712802403f7ba8261b6c Retrieved: 2026-09-16T20:04:02.230771+00:00	source checked automated source review · 2026-09-23 Audit details Follow-up review of Reference checkpoint, Context limits, Training data release, Training cutoff. Source locations and before/after decisions are recorded in the 23 September profile-evidence audit. Other explanatory content retains its earlier source scope. No human scientific review or independent reproduction is implied. Field: `attributes.profile.diagram.title` Source artifact SHA-256: `539095c22efc52a09d6147074ba4ca119f76a890df5901213b2b55f7d2f96b2b` Hash scope: SHA-256 of retrieved original artifact bytes Format: original_artifact Inspected artifact
Diagram title ESM-2 workflow Individual claims	facebookresearch/esm: README.md Original source ↗ ESM README: Pre-trained Models and Main models; official facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D README licence metadata and config.json Shared locator for this statement’s cited sources; not a separate locator for each citation. Version: 2b369911bb5b4b0dda914521b9475cad1656b2ac Retrieved: 2026-09-16T19:46:19.090082+00:00	source checked automated source review · 2026-09-23 Audit details Follow-up review of Reference checkpoint, Context limits, Training data release, Training cutoff. Source locations and before/after decisions are recorded in the 23 September profile-evidence audit. Other explanatory content retains its earlier source scope. No human scientific review or independent reproduction is implied. Field: `attributes.profile.diagram.title` Source artifact SHA-256: `8b273c21a322fc9473d1b68d0dd40c8166ab2f89e4a190aa26ca87251b97cba9` Hash scope: SHA-256 of retrieved original artifact bytes Format: original_artifact Inspected artifact
Diagram title ESM-2 workflow Individual claims	facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D: README.md Original source ↗ ESM README: Pre-trained Models and Main models; official facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D README licence metadata and config.json Shared locator for this statement’s cited sources; not a separate locator for each citation. Version: 08e4846e537177426273712802403f7ba8261b6c Retrieved: 2026-09-16T20:04:02.230771+00:00	source checked automated source review · 2026-09-23 Audit details Follow-up review of Reference checkpoint, Context limits, Training data release, Training cutoff. Source locations and before/after decisions are recorded in the 23 September profile-evidence audit. Other explanatory content retains its earlier source scope. No human scientific review or independent reproduction is implied. Field: `attributes.profile.diagram.title` Source artifact SHA-256: `462a2f24724e19c6be0efab926315c294a863c9a9770e2c8b3d859b2d81a07de` Hash scope: SHA-256 of retrieved original artifact bytes Format: original_artifact Inspected artifact
Model type Masked-token protein transformer encoder Individual claims	facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D: config.json Original source ↗ ESM README: Pre-trained Models and Main models; official facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D README licence metadata and config.json Shared locator for this statement’s cited sources; not a separate locator for each citation. Version: 08e4846e537177426273712802403f7ba8261b6c Retrieved: 2026-09-16T20:04:02.230771+00:00	source checked automated source review · 2026-09-23 Audit details Follow-up review of Reference checkpoint, Context limits, Training data release, Training cutoff. Source locations and before/after decisions are recorded in the 23 September profile-evidence audit. Other explanatory content retains its earlier source scope. No human scientific review or independent reproduction is implied. Field: `attributes.profile.facts.0.value` Source artifact SHA-256: `539095c22efc52a09d6147074ba4ca119f76a890df5901213b2b55f7d2f96b2b` Hash scope: SHA-256 of retrieved original artifact bytes Format: original_artifact Inspected artifact

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Stable ID: catalog-model-esm-2

areas: proteins-complexes
method types: foundation model
entity level: family
version: 8M
reported name: ESM-2
access: Public checkpoint; small 8M variant suits a local pilot.
method type: foundation model
historical missing metadata: checkpoint revision: not_yet_extracted; training data: not_yet_extracted; licence: not_yet_extracted
metadata review scope: historical_missing_metadata preserves the original discovery state. Current descriptive evidence and missingness are recorded in profile.facts; numerical-result review is separate.
entity classification: review date: 2026-09-17; rationale: The cited profile describes a named learned biological predictor or representation model/family. Preserve this identity separately from task-specific fitting, individual checkpoints, pipelines and hosted access.; source ids: evidence-official-29d4b229a3aa426a6dfb; evidence-official-d7e5c63feb0e0e627625; evidence-official-28fc17fbe0c1d99da219; source locator: ESM README: Pre-trained Models and Main models; official facebook/esm2_t33_650M_UR50D README licence metadata and config.json; ambiguities: None recorded

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variant of: ESM-2
family: ESM2 8M
subject: ESM-2: variant of ESM-2
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family: ESM-2 8M frozen residue-mean embeddings + fixed ridge (Rewire) (FLIP2 Rhomax by_wild_type)

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