---
license: mit
language: protein
tags:
- protein language model
datasets:
- Uniref50
---

# DistilProtBert model

Distilled protein language of [ProtBert](https://huggingface.co/Rostlab/prot_bert).
In addition to cross entropy and cosine teacher-student losses, DistilProtBert was pretrained on a masked language modeling (MLM) objective  and it only works with capital letter amino acids.

# Model description