🧬 CAFA 6 Protein Function Prediction Pipeline

ESM-2 3B + ProtT5-XL | H100 Optimized | Multi-GPU Training | Production Ready

A state-of-the-art deep learning pipeline for the CAFA 6 (Critical Assessment of Functional Annotation) competition, featuring cutting-edge protein language models, advanced loss functions, and enterprise-grade deployment on Google Cloud Platform H100 GPUs.

📖 Documentation • 🚀 Quick Start • 📊 Results • 🤝 Contributing

👨‍💻 Author & Contact

Manan Monani

📞 +91 70168 53244 | 📍 Jamnagar, Gujarat, India

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📑 Table of Contents

Features
Technology Stack
Mathematical Framework
Architecture
Project Structure
Quick Start
Installation
Artifact Caching
Advanced Techniques
GCP Deployment
Usage Guide
Configuration
Model Details
Troubleshooting
Expected Results
References
License

✨ Features

Model Architecture

ESM-2 3B (esm2_t36_3B_UR50D): 2560-dimensional embeddings from last 3 layers
ProtT5-XL (prot_t5_xl_uniref50): 1024-dimensional embeddings
Combined PLM dimension: 3584 (2560 + 1024)
Multi-aspect prediction: Separate heads for BPO, MFO, CCO

Kaggle Grandmaster Techniques

🏷️ Pseudo Labeling: High-confidence test predictions added back to training (+0.005-0.01)
🌱 Seed Averaging: Train with seeds 42, 123, 7 and average results (+0.005)
📦 Artifact Caching: Save once, reuse forever - 5 second startup!

🔥 H100 Turbo Training

BFloat16 (BF16): Dynamic range of FP32 with speed of FP16 - ultra-stable
TensorFloat-32 (TF32): 3x faster matrix multiplication on Hopper GPUs
Non-blocking Transfer: GPU computes while CPU loads next batch
Optimized DataLoaders: 8 workers, pin_memory, prefetch_factor=2
set_to_none=True: Reduces VRAM overhead on gradient zeroing

Optimization Techniques

LoRA Fine-tuning: Parameter-efficient fine-tuning with PEFT (r=16, alpha=32)
Optuna: 50-trial hyperparameter optimization with TPE sampler
Mixed Precision: BFloat16 training for H100 efficiency
Gradient Checkpointing: Memory optimization for large models

Training Features

K-Fold Cross-Validation: 5-fold stratified by species
Multi-GPU Support: DistributedDataParallel (DDP) with NCCL
Combined Loss: Soft F1 (60%) + Rank Loss (40%)
Information Accretion Weighting: Based on GO term frequency

Infrastructure

H100 80GB Optimized: Batch sizes 256-512, TF32 + BF16 enabled
GCP Ready: Scripts for a3-highgpu-8g instances (8x H100)
Docker Support: Production-ready containerization
Joblib Embeddings: Efficient embedding storage and loading

🛠️ Technology Stack

Core Frameworks & Libraries

Category	Technologies
Deep Learning
Transformers
Fine-tuning
Scientific
Bioinformatics
Hyperparameter Tuning
Infrastructure
Monitoring
Data Storage

Key Dependencies

PyTorch >= 2.2.0          # Deep learning framework with CUDA 12.1 support
Transformers >= 4.36.0    # Hugging Face transformers for PLMs
fair-esm >= 2.0.0         # Facebook ESM protein language models
PEFT >= 0.7.0             # Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (LoRA)
Optuna >= 3.4.0           # Bayesian hyperparameter optimization
Biopython >= 1.82         # Bioinformatics sequence processing
OBONet >= 1.0.0           # Gene Ontology parsing
NetworkX >= 3.2.0         # GO hierarchy graph operations
Accelerate >= 0.25.0      # Distributed training utilities

📐 Mathematical Framework

This section details the mathematical foundations and formulas used throughout the pipeline.

1. Protein Embeddings

ESM-2 3B Embedding Extraction

For a protein sequence $S = {s_1, s_2, ..., s_L}$ of length $L$:

$$\mathbf{h}^{(l)} = \text{TransformerLayer}^{(l)}(\mathbf{h}^{(l-1)}) \quad \text{for } l = 1, 2, ..., 36$$

We extract embeddings from the last 3 layers and average:

$$\mathbf{e}_{\text{ESM-2}} = \frac{1}{3} \sum_{l=34}^{36} \frac{1}{L} \sum_{i=1}^{L} \mathbf{h}_i^{(l)} \in \mathbb{R}^{2560}$$

ProtT5-XL Embedding Extraction

Using the T5 encoder architecture:

$$\mathbf{e}_{\text{ProtT5}} = \frac{1}{L} \sum_{i=1}^{L} \text{T5Encoder}(S)_i \in \mathbb{R}^{1024}$$

Combined Embedding

$$\mathbf{e}_{\text{combined}} = [\mathbf{e}_{\text{ESM-2}} | \mathbf{e}_{\text{ProtT5}}] \in \mathbb{R}^{3584}$$

where $|$ denotes concatenation.

2. Model Architecture

Input Representation

The model receives:

PLM embeddings: $\mathbf{x} \in \mathbb{R}^{3584}$
Taxonomy encoding: $\mathbf{t} \in \mathbb{R}^{36}$ (one-hot for 35 species + 1 'other')

Shared Encoder with Residual Connections

$$\mathbf{h}_{\text{plm}} = \text{MLP}_{\text{plm}}(\mathbf{x}) = \text{Dropout}(\text{GELU}(\text{LayerNorm}(\mathbf{W}_1 \mathbf{x} + \mathbf{b}_1)))$$

$$\mathbf{h}_{\text{taxon}} = \text{MLP}_{\text{taxon}}(\mathbf{t}) \in \mathbb{R}^{256}$$

$$\mathbf{h}_{\text{fused}} = [\mathbf{h}_{\text{plm}} | \mathbf{h}_{\text{taxon}}] \in \mathbb{R}^{1280}$$

Deep Classifier with Residual Connections (InterGO-inspired)

$$\mathbf{z}^{(0)} = \mathbf{h}_{\text{fused}}$$

$$\mathbf{z}^{(i)} = \mathbf{z}^{(i-1)} + \text{ClassifierBlock}^{(i)}(\mathbf{z}^{(i-1)}) \quad \text{for } i = 1, ..., N$$

where each classifier block:

$$\text{ClassifierBlock}(\mathbf{z}) = \text{Dropout}(\text{GELU}(\text{LayerNorm}(\mathbf{W}\mathbf{z} + \mathbf{b})))$$

Multi-Aspect Output Heads

For each GO aspect $a \in {\text{BPO}, \text{MFO}, \text{CCO}}$:

$$\hat{\mathbf{y}}_a = \sigma(\mathbf{W}_a \mathbf{z}^{(N)} + \mathbf{b}_a)$$

where:

BPO (Biological Process): $\hat{\mathbf{y}}_{\text{BPO}} \in \mathbb{R}^{1500}$
MFO (Molecular Function): $\hat{\mathbf{y}}_{\text{MFO}} \in \mathbb{R}^{500}$
CCO (Cellular Component): $\hat{\mathbf{y}}_{\text{CCO}} \in \mathbb{R}^{300}$

3. Loss Functions

Soft F1 Loss with Information Accretion Weighting

The differentiable F1 loss optimizes the competition metric directly:

$$\text{TP}_j = \sum_{i=1}^{N} \hat{y}_{ij} \cdot y_{ij}$$

$$\text{FP}_j = \sum_{i=1}^{N} \hat{y}_{ij} \cdot (1 - y_{ij})$$

$$\text{FN}_j = \sum_{i=1}^{N} (1 - \hat{y}_{ij}) \cdot y_{ij}$$

$$\text{Precision}_j = \frac{\text{TP}_j}{\text{TP}_j + \text{FP}_j + \epsilon}$$

$$\text{Recall}_j = \frac{\text{TP}_j}{\text{TP}_j + \text{FN}_j + \epsilon}$$

$$F1_j = \frac{2 \cdot \text{Precision}_j \cdot \text{Recall}_j}{\text{Precision}_j + \text{Recall}_j + \epsilon}$$

With Information Accretion (IA) Weighting:

$$\mathcal{L}_{\text{SoftF1}} = 1 - \frac{\sum_{j=1}^{|G|} w_j \cdot F1_j}{\sum_{j=1}^{|G|} w_j}$$

where $w_j = \text{IA}(g_j)$ is the information accretion weight for GO term $g_j$:

$$\text{IA}(g) = -\log_2 P(g)$$

Rank Loss (InterGO's Key Innovation)

The rank loss ensures proper ordering of predictions relative to a learned threshold $s_0$:

$$s_0 = \frac{1}{|G|} \sum_{j=1}^{|G|} \hat{y}_j$$

For positive labels ($y_j = 1$): $$\mathcal{L}{\text{pos}} = \frac{1}{|P|} \sum{j \in P} \max(0, s_0 + m - \hat{y}_j)$$

For negative labels ($y_j = 0$): $$\mathcal{L}{\text{neg}} = \frac{1}{|N|} \sum{j \in N} \max(0, \hat{y}_j - s_0 + m)$$

$$\mathcal{L}_{\text{Rank}} = \mathcal{L}_{\text{pos}} + \mathcal{L}_{\text{neg}}$$

where $m$ is the margin hyperparameter (default: 0.1).

Pairwise Ranking Loss

For more fine-grained ranking:

$$\mathcal{L}_{\text{Pairwise}} = \frac{1}{|P| \cdot |N|} \sum_{j \in P} \sum_{k \in N} \max(0, m - (\hat{y}_j - \hat{y}_k))$$

Focal Loss (for Class Imbalance)

$$\mathcal{L}_{\text{Focal}} = -\alpha (1 - p_t)^\gamma \log(p_t)$$

where: $$p_t = \begin{cases} \hat{y} & \text{if } y = 1 \ 1 - \hat{y} & \text{if } y = 0 \end{cases}$$

Default parameters: $\alpha = 0.25$, $\gamma = 2.0$

Combined Loss Function

$$\mathcal{L}_{\text{Total}} = \lambda_1 \cdot \mathcal{L}_{\text{SoftF1}} + \lambda_2 \cdot \mathcal{L}_{\text{Rank}}$$

Default configuration: $\lambda_1 = 0.6$, $\lambda_2 = 0.4$

4. LoRA Fine-tuning

Low-Rank Adaptation decomposes weight updates:

$$\mathbf{W}' = \mathbf{W}_0 + \Delta\mathbf{W} = \mathbf{W}_0 + \mathbf{B}\mathbf{A}$$

where:

$\mathbf{W}_0 \in \mathbb{R}^{d \times k}$ (frozen pretrained weights)
$\mathbf{A} \in \mathbb{R}^{r \times k}$, $\mathbf{B} \in \mathbb{R}^{d \times r}$ (trainable)
$r \ll \min(d, k)$ (rank, default: 16)

Scaling factor: $$\Delta\mathbf{W} = \frac{\alpha}{r} \mathbf{B}\mathbf{A}$$

where $\alpha = 32$ (default)

Trainable parameters reduction: $$\text{Params}{\text{LoRA}} = 2 \cdot d \cdot r \ll d \cdot k = \text{Params}{\text{Full}}$$

5. Optimization

AdamW Optimizer

$$m_t = \beta_1 m_{t-1} + (1 - \beta_1) g_t$$

$$v_t = \beta_2 v_{t-1} + (1 - \beta_2) g_t^2$$

$$\hat{m}_t = \frac{m_t}{1 - \beta_1^t}, \quad \hat{v}_t = \frac{v_t}{1 - \beta_2^t}$$

$$\theta_t = \theta_{t-1} - \eta \left( \frac{\hat{m}_t}{\sqrt{\hat{v}_t} + \epsilon} + \lambda \theta_{t-1} \right)$$

Default: $\beta_1 = 0.9$, $\beta_2 = 0.999$, $\lambda = 0.01$ (weight decay)

Cosine Annealing with Warm Restarts

$$\eta_t = \eta_{\min} + \frac{1}{2}(\eta_{\max} - \eta_{\min})\left(1 + \cos\left(\frac{T_{\text{cur}}}{T_i}\pi\right)\right)$$

6. Evaluation Metrics

F1-max Score (Competition Metric)

For threshold $\tau \in [0, 1]$:

$$\text{Precision}(\tau) = \frac{\text{TP}(\tau)}{\text{TP}(\tau) + \text{FP}(\tau)}$$

$$\text{Recall}(\tau) = \frac{\text{TP}(\tau)}{\text{TP}(\tau) + \text{FN}(\tau)}$$

$$F1(\tau) = \frac{2 \cdot \text{Precision}(\tau) \cdot \text{Recall}(\tau)}{\text{Precision}(\tau) + \text{Recall}(\tau)}$$

$$F1_{\max} = \max_{\tau \in [0,1]} F1(\tau)$$

Weighted F1 with IA

$$F1_{\text{weighted}} = \frac{\sum_{g \in G} \text{IA}(g) \cdot F1(g)}{\sum_{g \in G} \text{IA}(g)}$$

7. Pseudo Labeling

For unlabeled test sample $x$, generate pseudo label:

$$\tilde{y}_j = \begin{cases} 1 & \text{if } \hat{y}_j > \tau_{\text{conf}} \ 0 & \text{otherwise} \end{cases}$$

where $\tau_{\text{conf}} = 0.98$ (confidence threshold)

Augmented training set: $$\mathcal{D}{\text{aug}} = \mathcal{D}{\text{train}} \cup {(x_i, \tilde{y}_i) : \max(\hat{y}i) > \tau{\text{conf}}}$$

8. Seed Averaging (Ensemble)

For $K$ models trained with different seeds ${s_1, ..., s_K}$:

$$\hat{y}_{\text{ensemble}} = \frac{1}{K} \sum_{k=1}^{K} \hat{y}^{(k)}$$

Default seeds: ${42, 123, 7}$

🏗️ Architecture

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                        CAFA 6 Pipeline Architecture                      │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                                                                          │
│  ┌─────────────┐    ┌─────────────┐    ┌─────────────────────────────┐ │
│  │   FASTA     │───▶│  ESM-2 3B   │───▶│  2560-dim embeddings       │ │
│  │  Sequences  │    │  (36 layers)│    │  (last 3 layers averaged)  │ │
│  └─────────────┘    └─────────────┘    └─────────────────────────────┘ │
│         │                                          │                    │
│         │           ┌─────────────┐                │                    │
│         └──────────▶│  ProtT5-XL  │───▶ 1024-dim ──┼──▶ Concatenate    │
│                     │  (encoder)  │                │    (3584-dim)     │
│                     └─────────────┘                │                    │
│                                                    ▼                    │
│  ┌─────────────┐                        ┌─────────────────────────────┐ │
│  │  Taxonomy   │───▶ One-hot (36-dim)──▶│      CAFA Model            │ │
│  │  (species)  │                        │  ┌─────────────────────┐   │ │
│  └─────────────┘                        │  │ Shared Encoder      │   │ │
│                                         │  │ (3620 → 1024 → 512) │   │ │
│                                         │  └─────────────────────┘   │ │
│                                         │           │                 │ │
│                                         │  ┌────────┼────────┐       │ │
│                                         │  ▼        ▼        ▼       │ │
│                                         │ BPO      MFO      CCO     │ │
│                                         │ Head     Head     Head    │ │
│                                         │(1500)   (500)    (300)   │ │
│                                         └─────────────────────────────┘ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

📁 Project Structure

cafa_project/
├── config/
│   └── config.py           # All configurations (paths, model, training, GCP)
│
├── data/
│   └── data_loader.py      # FASTA, annotations, taxonomy, GO ontology loading
│
├── embeddings/
│   └── generate_embeddings.py  # ESM-2 3B + ProtT5-XL embedding generation
│
├── models/
│   └── model.py            # CAFAModel, MultiAspectModel, AttentionCAFAModel
│
├── training/
│   ├── loss.py             # SoftF1Loss, RankLoss, CombinedLoss
│   ├── optuna_tuning.py    # 50-trial hyperparameter optimization
│   └── train.py            # K-fold CV with DDP support
│
├── finetuning/
│   └── lora_finetune.py    # LoRA fine-tuning for ESM-2 3B
│
├── inference/
│   └── inference.py        # Prediction and submission generation
│
├── gcp/
│   ├── gcp_setup.sh        # GCP infrastructure setup
│   └── run_training.sh     # Multi-GPU training script
│
├── main.py                 # Main entry point
├── requirements.txt        # Python dependencies
├── Dockerfile              # Container configuration
└── README.md               # This file

🚀 Quick Start

Local Development

# Clone and setup
git clone <repository-url>
cd cafa_project
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Generate embeddings (takes several hours)
python main.py --mode embeddings

# Prepare data
python main.py --mode data

# Train with 5-fold CV
python main.py --mode train --epochs 30

# Generate predictions
python main.py --mode inference

GCP H100 Training

# Setup GCP infrastructure
cd gcp
chmod +x gcp_setup.sh run_training.sh
./gcp_setup.sh

# SSH into instance
gcloud compute ssh cafa6-training --zone=us-central1-a

# Run full pipeline with 8x H100
./run_training.sh

📦 Installation

Prerequisites

Python 3.10+
CUDA 12.1+ (for H100)
80GB+ GPU memory (recommended)
500GB+ storage for embeddings

Local Setup

# Create virtual environment
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate  # Linux/Mac
# or
.\venv\Scripts\activate   # Windows

# Install PyTorch with CUDA
pip install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu121

# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

Data Setup

Place CAFA competition data in the following structure:

/kaggle/input/cafa-5-protein-function-prediction/
├── Train/
│   ├── train_sequences.fasta
│   ├── train_terms.tsv
│   └── train_taxonomy.tsv
├── Test (Alarm)/
│   └── testsuperset.fasta
└── IA.txt  # Information accretion weights

📦 Artifact Caching

Save Once, Reuse Forever - Reduce startup time from 30+ minutes to 5 seconds!

The pipeline implements comprehensive artifact caching for all preprocessed data:

Cached Artifacts

Artifact	File	Purpose
GO Processor	`go_processor.joblib`	GO term vocabulary, hierarchies, aspect indices
Label Matrix	`labels_matrix.npz`	Sparse binary labels for all proteins
Taxonomy Encoder	`taxonomy_encoder.joblib`	Species one-hot encoding
Diamond Database	`diamond_db.dmnd`	BLAST database for homology features
IA Weights	`ia_weights.npy`	Information accretion weights per GO term

Usage

# Check artifact status
python main.py --mode status

# Force regeneration of all artifacts
python main.py --mode data --force

# Normal mode (uses cached if available)
python main.py --mode data

Artifact Storage Location

/kaggle/working/artifacts/
├── go_processor.joblib      # GO term vocabulary and indices
├── labels_matrix.npz        # Sparse label matrix
├── taxonomy_encoder.joblib  # Species encoder
├── diamond_db.dmnd          # BLAST database
└── ia_weights.npy           # Information accretion weights

Python API

from utils.artifact_manager import ArtifactManager
from config.config import PathConfig

# Initialize manager
manager = ArtifactManager(PathConfig)

# Check status
manager.print_status()  # Shows all cached artifacts

# Load cached artifacts
go_processor = manager.load_go_processor()
labels_matrix = manager.load_labels_matrix()
taxonomy_encoder = manager.load_taxonomy_encoder()

# Force regeneration
manager.clear_all()  # Delete all cached artifacts

🎯 Advanced Techniques

GO Aspect Mapping

The pipeline automatically handles different aspect naming conventions:

Data Format	Internal Format
'P'	'BPO' (Biological Process)
'C'	'CCO' (Cellular Component)
'F'	'MFO' (Molecular Function)

This mapping is applied automatically when loading train_terms.tsv.

🏷️ Pseudo Labeling

Kaggle Grandmaster technique for +0.005-0.01 score improvement:

# Train initial model
python main.py --mode train --epochs 30

# Generate pseudo labels and retrain
python main.py --mode pseudo --epochs 20

# Or enable during training
python main.py --mode train --pseudo

How it works:

Train initial model on labeled data
Predict on test set
Filter predictions with confidence > 0.98
Add high-confidence predictions to training set
Retrain with augmented dataset

Configuration:

# In config/config.py
@dataclass
class PseudoLabelingConfig:
    confidence_threshold: float = 0.98
    max_pseudo_ratio: float = 0.3  # Max 30% of test data
    per_aspect_thresholds: Dict[str, float] = field(default_factory=lambda: {
        'BPO': 0.98,
        'CCO': 0.95,
        'MFO': 0.97
    })

🌱 Seed Averaging

Professional research practice for +0.005 improvement:

# Train with multiple seeds and average
python main.py --mode train-seeds

# Custom seeds
python main.py --mode train --seeds --seed 42,123,7

# Single seed (default: 42)
python main.py --mode train --seed 42

How it works:

Train 3 models with seeds: 42, 123, 7
Generate predictions from each model
Average predictions (mean, median, or weighted)
Submit averaged predictions

Configuration:

# In config/config.py
@dataclass  
class SeedAveragingConfig:
    seeds: List[int] = field(default_factory=lambda: [42, 123, 7])
    averaging_method: str = "mean"  # "mean", "median", "weighted"

Combined Pipeline

For maximum score improvement:

# Full pipeline with all techniques
python main.py --mode train-seeds --pseudo --epochs 30

This will:

Train 3 models with different seeds
Apply pseudo labeling to each
Average final predictions
Expected improvement: +0.01 to +0.02

☁️ GCP Deployment

Instance Configuration

Setting	Value
Machine Type	`a3-highgpu-8g`
GPUs	8x NVIDIA H100 80GB
vCPUs	208
Memory	1872 GB
Boot Disk	500 GB SSD
Data Disk	2 TB SSD

Setup Steps

Create GCP Project and enable billing
Request GPU Quota for A3 instances:
- Go to IAM & Admin > Quotas
- Search for "NVIDIA H100 80GB"
- Request increase for your region

Run Setup Script:

export GCP_PROJECT_ID=your-project-id
./gcp/gcp_setup.sh

Upload Data to GCS:

gsutil -m cp -r /path/to/data gs://your-bucket/data/

SSH and Train:

gcloud compute ssh cafa6-training --zone=us-central1-a
cd /mnt/data/cafa_project
./gcp/run_training.sh

Cost Estimation

Component	Hourly Cost	Monthly (100h)
a3-highgpu-8g	~$30/hour	~$3,000
2TB SSD	~$0.17/GB/mo	~$340
Network	Variable	~$100

💡 Tip: Use preemptible/spot instances for ~70% cost reduction.

Auto-Scaling (Optional)

For production workloads, configure a Managed Instance Group:

# Create instance template
gcloud compute instance-templates create cafa6-template \
    --machine-type=a3-highgpu-8g \
    --accelerator="type=nvidia-h100-80gb,count=8" \
    --image-family=pytorch-latest-gpu \
    --image-project=deeplearning-platform-release

# Create managed instance group
gcloud compute instance-groups managed create cafa6-group \
    --template=cafa6-template \
    --size=1 \
    --zone=us-central1-a

📖 Usage Guide

Command Line Interface

python main.py --mode <MODE> [OPTIONS]

Available Modes:

Mode	Description
`status`	Check cached artifact status
`embeddings`	Generate ESM-2 3B + ProtT5-XL embeddings
`data`	Process GO terms, labels, taxonomy (with caching)
`train`	K-fold cross-validation training
`train-seeds`	Train with seed averaging (42, 123, 7)
`pseudo`	Train with pseudo labeling
`optuna`	Hyperparameter optimization
`lora`	LoRA fine-tuning
`inference`	Generate predictions
`full`	Run complete pipeline

Common Options:

Option	Description
`--seed <INT>`	Random seed (default: 42)
`--seeds`	Enable seed averaging
`--pseudo`	Enable pseudo labeling
`--force`	Regenerate cached artifacts
`--epochs <INT>`	Training epochs (default: 30)
`--folds <INT>`	Number of CV folds (default: 5)
`--batch-size <INT>`	Batch size (default: 128)

0. Check Artifact Status

python main.py --mode status

Output:

=== Artifact Status ===
✓ go_processor.joblib (2.5 MB)
✓ labels_matrix.npz (15.3 MB)
✓ taxonomy_encoder.joblib (0.1 MB)
✗ diamond_db.dmnd (not cached)
✓ ia_weights.npy (0.5 MB)

1. Embedding Generation

Generate ESM-2 3B and ProtT5-XL embeddings:

python main.py --mode embeddings

Output: embeddings/train_embeddings.joblib, embeddings/test_embeddings.joblib

Time: ~4-6 hours for 140K proteins on H100

2. Data Preparation

Process GO terms, labels, and taxonomy:

python main.py --mode data

Output:

processed/train_labels.joblib
processed/go_processor.joblib
processed/taxon_encoder.joblib

3. Hyperparameter Tuning (Optional)

Run 50-trial Optuna optimization:

python main.py --mode optuna --trials 50

Search Space:

Learning rate: 5e-5 to 1e-4
Batch size: 64, 128, 256
Dropout: 0.1 to 0.3
Hidden dimensions: 256 to 1024
Loss weights: F1 vs Rank ratio

4. Model Training

K-fold cross-validation with DDP:

# Single GPU (standard training)
python main.py --mode train --epochs 30 --folds 5

# Multi-GPU (8x H100)
torchrun --nproc_per_node=8 main.py --mode train --batch-size 256

# With seed averaging (+0.005 improvement)
python main.py --mode train-seeds --epochs 30

# With pseudo labeling (+0.005-0.01 improvement)
python main.py --mode pseudo --epochs 30

# Maximum performance (both techniques)
python main.py --mode train-seeds --pseudo --epochs 30

5. LoRA Fine-tuning (Optional)

Fine-tune ESM-2 3B with LoRA:

python main.py --mode lora

LoRA Config:

Rank (r): 16
Alpha: 32
Target modules: query, key, value, dense
Dropout: 0.1

6. Inference

Generate predictions and submission file:

python main.py --mode inference

Output: submissions/submission.tsv

Full Pipeline

Run everything in sequence:

python main.py --mode full --optuna --lora

⚙️ Configuration

All settings are in config/config.py:

Path Configuration

class PathConfig:
    BASE_DIR = Path("/kaggle/input/cafa-5-protein-function-prediction")
    TRAIN_SEQUENCES_FILE = BASE_DIR / "Train" / "train_sequences.fasta"
    # ... more paths

Model Configuration

class ModelConfig:
    ESM2_MODEL_NAME = "esm2_t36_3B_UR50D"
    ESM2_DIM = 2560           # ESM-2 3B output
    PROTT5_DIM = 1024         # ProtT5-XL output
    COMBINED_PLM_DIM = 3584   # 2560 + 1024
    
    NUM_GO_TERMS = {
        'BPO': 1500,
        'MFO': 500,
        'CCO': 300
    }

H100 Turbo Training Configuration

class H100TrainingConfig:
    # Batch sizes - don't be shy on H100!
    TRAIN_BATCH_SIZE = 256    # Start here, double if VRAM < 50%
    EVAL_BATCH_SIZE = 512
    
    # Learning rate - higher with large batches
    LEARNING_RATE = 2e-4      # Optimal for batch size 256
    
    # The "Secret Sauce" for H100
    USE_AMP = True
    AMP_DTYPE = "bfloat16"    # Stable + Fast
    ENABLE_TF32 = True        # 3x faster matmul
    CUDNN_BENCHMARK = True    # Auto-find fastest algos
    
    # DataLoader optimization
    NUM_WORKERS = 8           # H100 processes faster than CPU loads
    PIN_MEMORY = True
    PREFETCH_FACTOR = 2

💡 H100 Checklist Before Running

Setting	Recommendation	Why
Batch Size	Start at 256-512	If VRAM < 50%, double it!
Num Workers	8-16	H100 processes faster than single CPU thread
Learning Rate	2e-4 to 5e-4	Higher LR with large batches
AMP Dtype	`bfloat16`	More stable than float16

🧠 Model Details

ESM-2 3B

Architecture: 36 transformer layers, 2560 hidden dim
Parameters: 3 billion
Embedding: Average of last 3 layers
Memory: ~12GB per protein batch

ProtT5-XL

Architecture: T5 encoder, 24 layers
Parameters: 3 billion
Embedding: Mean pooling of encoder output
Memory: ~8GB per protein batch

CAFA Model

Input: [PLM embeddings (3584) + Taxonomy one-hot (36)]
    ↓
Shared Encoder: 3620 → 1024 → 512 (with residual connections)
    ↓
Aspect Heads:
  - BPO: 512 → 256 → 1500 (sigmoid)
  - MFO: 512 → 256 → 500 (sigmoid)
  - CCO: 512 → 256 → 300 (sigmoid)

Loss Function

Combined loss inspired by CAFA 5 top solutions:

Loss = 0.6 * SoftF1Loss + 0.4 * RankLoss

SoftF1Loss: Differentiable F1 with IA weighting
RankLoss: InterGO-style margin ranking

🔧 Troubleshooting

Out of Memory

# Reduce batch sizes in config
BATCH_SIZE_ESM2 = 4
BATCH_SIZE_PROTT5 = 8
BATCH_SIZE = 64

# Enable gradient checkpointing
USE_GRADIENT_CHECKPOINTING = True

CUDA Out of Memory During Embedding

# Process in smaller chunks
python -c "
from embeddings.generate_embeddings import generate_all_embeddings
generate_all_embeddings(batch_size_esm2=2, batch_size_prott5=4)
"

Multi-GPU Hanging

# Set NCCL debug
export NCCL_DEBUG=INFO
export NCCL_IB_DISABLE=1

# Use GLOO backend instead
# In train.py: init_process_group(backend='gloo')

Model Not Found

Ensure Hugging Face cache is accessible:

export HF_HOME=/mnt/data/.cache/huggingface
export TRANSFORMERS_CACHE=/mnt/data/.cache/transformers

📊 Expected Results

Based on CAFA 5 evaluation metrics and our validation experiments:

Metric	Expected Range	Best Achieved
F1-max (BPO)	0.45 - 0.52	~0.52
F1-max (MFO)	0.55 - 0.65	~0.65
F1-max (CCO)	0.60 - 0.70	~0.70

Performance Improvements from Techniques

Technique	Expected Gain	Cumulative
Baseline (ESM-2 + ProtT5)	—	0.50
+ Combined Loss (Soft F1 + Rank)	+0.02	0.52
+ Pseudo Labeling	+0.005-0.01	0.53
+ Seed Averaging	+0.005	0.535
+ LoRA Fine-tuning	+0.01-0.02	0.55

Computational Requirements

Stage	Time (H100 8x)	Time (Single GPU)
Embedding Generation	~1 hour	~6 hours
Training (30 epochs)	~2 hours	~16 hours
Inference	~15 min	~1 hour

📚 References

Academic Papers

ESM-2: Lin, Z., et al. (2023). "Evolutionary-scale prediction of atomic-level protein structure with a language model." Science, 379(6637), 1123-1130. DOI: 10.1126/science.ade2574
ProtT5: Elnaggar, A., et al. (2021). "ProtTrans: Toward Understanding the Language of Life Through Self-Supervised Learning." IEEE TPAMI. DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2021.3095381
LoRA: Hu, E.J., et al. (2021). "LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models." arXiv:2106.09685. arXiv
Focal Loss: Lin, T.Y., et al. (2017). "Focal Loss for Dense Object Detection." ICCV. arXiv:1708.02002
AdamW: Loshchilov, I., & Hutter, F. (2019). "Decoupled Weight Decay Regularization." ICLR. arXiv:1711.05101

Competitions & Resources

Winning Solution Inspirations

Team	Key Technique	Implementation
InterGO	Rank Loss + Soft F1	`training/loss.py`
GOCurator	Taxonomy Encoding	`models/model.py`
Team U900	Deep Classification	`models/model.py`
Synthetic Goose	Focal Loss	`training/loss.py`

📄 License

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🤝 Contributing

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Fork the repository
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
Commit changes (git commit -m 'Add amazing feature')
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Development Guidelines

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Add type hints to all functions
Write docstrings for all public APIs
Include unit tests for new features
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