ProTrek
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No hardware requirements for this model
The weights for this model have not been published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any size. It is reachable only through its provider, and no graphics card changes that.
On record
Full specification
Everything on record for this model. Most of it describes how it was trained rather than how it runs — useful context for judging how much work went into it, and how it compares with models built at a different scale.
Origin
Who built this model, where, and when it was published.
- Organisation
- Westlake University
- Organisation type
- Academia
- Country
- China
- Published
- 3 June 2024
- Authors
- Jin Su, Xibin Zhou, Xuting Zhang, Fajie Yuan
What it does
The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.
- Domain
- Biology
- Task
- Protein or nucleotide language model (pLM/nLM)
- Base model
- ESM2-650M
Size
How large the model is and how much data it was trained on. Parameters are the figure that decides whether it fits on a given graphics card.
- Parameters
- 930M
- Training data
- tokens
40M examples Step 1: 14M (Swiss-Prot) + 25M (UniRef50) ≈ 40M examples Step 2: 512 (sequence) + 512 (structure) + 100 (text) = 1,124 tokens per example Step 3: 40,000,000 × 1,124 = 4.496 × 10¹⁰ tokens Final result: 4.496 × 10¹⁰ tokens
The training run
What it physically took to train: which chips, how many, for how long, and what that drew from the wall.
- Training hardware
- NVIDIA A100
- Chips used
- 20
- Power draw
- 15.8 kW
How it is classified
Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.
- Record confidence
- Confident
- Citations
- 1
Sources
Where this record came from and when it was last checked.
- Reference
- ProTrek: Navigating the Protein Universe through Tri-Modal Contrastive Learning
- Last updated
- 28 November 2025
What the numbers mean
Where it came from
ProTrek was published by Westlake University, in the country recorded as China, during June 2024. The category the publisher falls under is academia.
It works in the domain of Biology, and is recorded as performing the task of protein or nucleotide language model (pLM/nLM).
Its starting point was an existing base model, ESM2-650M. That is the usual way a specialised model is produced.
This is a closed model: the trained values stayed with whoever produced them, and there is no local version to run.
Answers
ProTrek — common questions
ProTrek— what GPU do I need to run it?
None. This is a closed model — its weights were never published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any price. It is reachable only through its provider.
ProTrek— is it open source?
The licensing was never recorded in our source data. We treat unstated licensing as closed, because an unrecorded licence is not one to rely on.
ProTrek— how many parameters does it have?
It has a parameter count of 930M. That figure is the total, and it is what decides how much memory the model needs — roughly half a gigabyte per billion at the compression most people use.
ProTrek— who created it?
It was published by Westlake University, based in China, an organisation categorised as academia.
ProTrek— when was it released?
It was published in June 2024. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.
ProTrek— what is it used for?
It works in the domain of Biology, and is recorded as handling the task of protein or nucleotide language model (pLM/nLM). Models frequently carry more than one of each, and the tags describe purpose rather than capability limits.
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