> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://proto.evodesign.org/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Masked Models

> Protein language models for embeddings, scoring, and sampling

Protein language models trained to fill in masked positions using surrounding context from
both directions. They produce sequence embeddings, per-position amino acid probabilities,
sampled mutations, and naturalness scores. These outputs are sequence-level priors, useful
for representation, local editing, and ranking rather than structural or functional
validation.

* **Input:** one or more protein sequences, optionally with masked positions to fill in.
* **Output:** sequence embeddings, per-position amino acid probabilities, sampled mutations, or naturalness scores.

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    <div class="tool-card-org-row"><span class="tool-card-org" style={{background: "#0866FF"}} title="Meta AI"><img src="https://mintcdn.com/bio-pro/_UGa2jUMKeVPCbLk/assets/images/cached/122d88bc7259.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=_UGa2jUMKeVPCbLk&q=85&s=ca6fedad598bccf781a70ad3b02bf561" alt="" class="tool-card-org-logo" width="200" height="200" data-path="assets/images/cached/122d88bc7259.png" /> Meta AI</span> <span class="tool-card-org" style={{background: "#111111"}} title="Biohub"><img src="https://mintcdn.com/bio-pro/_UGa2jUMKeVPCbLk/assets/images/cached/59f8c7606fb7.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=_UGa2jUMKeVPCbLk&q=85&s=e4891edc150dd75c0f1e262cfdb2d304" alt="" class="tool-card-org-logo" width="192" height="192" data-path="assets/images/cached/59f8c7606fb7.png" /> Biohub</span></div>
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  <a href="/docs/tools/masked-models/esm3" class="tool-catalog-card">
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  <a href="/docs/tools/masked-models/esmc" class="tool-catalog-card">
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    <div class="tool-card-org-row"><span class="tool-card-org" style={{background: "#111111"}} title="Biohub"><img src="https://mintcdn.com/bio-pro/_UGa2jUMKeVPCbLk/assets/images/cached/59f8c7606fb7.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=_UGa2jUMKeVPCbLk&q=85&s=e4891edc150dd75c0f1e262cfdb2d304" alt="" class="tool-card-org-logo" width="192" height="192" data-path="assets/images/cached/59f8c7606fb7.png" /> Biohub</span></div>
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  <a href="/docs/tools/masked-models/esmc-sae" class="tool-catalog-card">
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    <div class="tool-card-org-row"><span class="tool-card-org" style={{background: "#111111"}} title="Biohub"><img src="https://mintcdn.com/bio-pro/_UGa2jUMKeVPCbLk/assets/images/cached/59f8c7606fb7.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=_UGa2jUMKeVPCbLk&q=85&s=e4891edc150dd75c0f1e262cfdb2d304" alt="" class="tool-card-org-logo" width="192" height="192" data-path="assets/images/cached/59f8c7606fb7.png" /> Biohub</span></div>
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