2026
NucEL: Single-Nucleotide ELECTRA-Style Genomic Pre-training for Efficient and Interpretable Representations
AAAI 2026technical
Pre-training large language models on genomic sequences has become a powerful approach for learning biologically meaningful representations. While masked language modeling (MLM)-based approaches, such as DNABERT and Nucleotide Transformer (NT), achieve strong performance, they are hindered by ineffi