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Yitao Xu

5 accepted papers

2026

Investigating Data Pruning for Pretraining Biological Foundation Models at Scale

AAAI 2026technical

Biological foundation models (BioFMs), pretrained on large-scale biological sequences, have recently shown strong potential in providing meaningful representations for diverse downstream bioinformatics tasks. However, such models often rely on millions to billions of training sequences and billions

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2025

RBPtool: A Deep Language Model Framework for Multi-Resolution RBP-RNA Binding Prediction and RNA Molecule Design

EMNLP 2025

RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) play essential roles in post-transcriptional gene regulation via recognizing specific RNA molecules as well as modulating several key physiological processes in cellulo, represented by alternative splicing and RNA degradation. Despite extensive research, most existing app

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2024

AdanCA: Neural Cellular Automata As Adaptors For More Robust Vision Transformer

NeurIPS 2024poster

Vision Transformers (ViTs) demonstrate remarkable performance in image classification through visual-token interaction learning, particularly when equipped with local information via region attention or convolutions. Although such architectures improve the feature aggregation from different granular…

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2023

DyNCA: Real-Time Dynamic Texture Synthesis Using Neural Cellular Automata

CVPR 2023poster

Current Dynamic Texture Synthesis (DyTS) models can synthesize realistic videos. However, they require a slow iterative optimization process to synthesize a single fixed-size short video, and they do not offer any post-training control over the synthesis process. We propose Dynamic Neural Cellular A…

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2020

Spatiotemporal Attacks for Embodied Agents

ECCV 2020poster

Adversarial attacks are valuable for providing insights into the blind-spots of deep learning models and help improve their robustness. Existing work on adversarial attacks have mainly focused on static scenes; however, it remains unclear whether such attacks are effective against embodied agents, w…