Maximum sequence length

[ElArkk]

Hi,

When using the likelihood functionality of AbLang, I'm noticing an upper limit of sequence length that it will still process (somewhere < 150 residues).
Breaking example:

heavy_ablang = ablang.pretrained("heavy", device="cpu")
heavy_ablang.freeze()
likelihoods = heavy_ablang("HASTA"*40, mode='likelihood')

On CPU I get the following error:
IndexError: index out of range in self

On GPU I get cryptic CUDA errors which bork the GPU until kernel restart.

Is there an known upper limit for sequence length?

Thanks!

[TobiasHeOl]

Hi ElArkk,

The upper limit of sequence length in AbLang is based on the positional embedding layer, which takes a max length of 160. Because of the addition of extra tokens the effective max length is 157. This length should be long enough to span the variable region of any standard antibody.

Nonetheless, I will add an error message explaining this.

I hope this helps.

Best,
Tobias

[ElArkk]

That's perfect, thank you! :)