2026
PatchDNA: A Flexible and Biologically-Informed Alternative to Tokenization for DNA
Alice Del Vecchio, Chantriolnt-Andreas Kapourani, Abdullah M Athar, Agnieszka Dobrowolska, Andrew Anighoro, Benjamin Tenmann +2
ICLR 2026poster
DNA language models are emerging as powerful tools for representing genomic sequences, with recent progress driven by self-supervised learning. However, performance on downstream tasks is sensitive to tokenization strategies reflecting the complex encodings in DNA, where both regulatory elements and…