Austin Wang
austintwang.bsky.social
Austin Wang
@austintwang.bsky.social
Stanford CS PhD student working on ML/AI for genomics with @anshulkundaje.bsky.social

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(7/10) DNALMs struggle with more difficult tasks.
Furthermore, small models trained from scratch (<10M params) routinely outperform much larger DNALMs (>1B params), even after LoRA fine-tuning!
Our results on the hardest task - counterfactual variant effect prediction.
December 11, 2024 at 2:30 AM
(6/10) We introduce DART-Eval, a suite of five biologically informed DNALM evaluations focusing on transcriptional regulatory DNA ordered by increasing difficulty.
December 11, 2024 at 2:30 AM