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Lifeng Qiao

2 accepted papers

2024

BEACON: Benchmark for Comprehensive RNA Tasks and Language Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

RNA plays a pivotal role in translating genetic instructions into functional outcomes, underscoring its importance in biological processes and disease mechanisms. Despite the emergence of numerous deep learning approaches for RNA, particularly universal RNA language models, there remains a significa…

2024

Model Decides How to Tokenize: Adaptive DNA Sequence Tokenization with MxDNA

NeurIPS 2024poster

Foundation models have made significant strides in understanding the genomic language of DNA sequences. However, previous models typically adopt the tokenization methods designed for natural language, which are unsuitable for DNA sequences due to their unique characteristics. In addition, the optima…