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Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities on various tasks, while the further evolvement is limited to the lack of high-quality training data. In addition, traditional training approaches rely too much on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Peidong Wang , Ming Wang , Zhiming Ma , Xiaocui Yang , Shi Feng , Daling Wang , Yifei Zhang , Kaisong Song

Variant and gene interpretation are fundamental to personalized medicine and translational biomedicine. However, traditional approaches are manual and labor-intensive. Generative language models (LMs) can facilitate this process,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Owen Queen , Harrison G. Zhang , James Zou

Deep neural-network-based language models (LMs) are increasingly applied to large-scale protein sequence data to predict protein function. However, being largely black-box models and thus challenging to interpret, current protein LM…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-06 Mai Ha Vu , Rahmad Akbar , Philippe A. Robert , Bartlomiej Swiatczak , Victor Greiff , Geir Kjetil Sandve , Dag Trygve Truslew Haug

Large language models (LLMs) are powerful tools capable of handling diverse tasks. Comparing and selecting appropriate LLMs for specific tasks requires systematic evaluation methods, as models exhibit varying capabilities across different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Anna Sokol , Elizabeth Daly , Michael Hind , David Piorkowski , Xiangliang Zhang , Nuno Moniz , Nitesh Chawla

Large language models (LLMs) often lack culture-specific knowledge of daily life, especially across diverse regions and non-English languages. Existing benchmarks for evaluating LLMs' cultural sensitivities are limited to a single language…

DNA language models have advanced genomics, but their downstream performance varies widely due to differences in tokenization, pretraining data, and architecture. We argue that a major bottleneck lies in tokenizing sparse and unevenly…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-23 Xiaoxiao Zhou , Zihan Wang , Jingbo Shang , Yang E. Li

Neural program embedding can be helpful in analyzing large software, a task that is challenging for traditional logic-based program analyses due to their limited scalability. A key focus of recent machine-learning advances in this area is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Ke Wang , Mihai Christodorescu

Deep learning is playing a vital role in every field which involves data. It has emerged as a strong and efficient framework that can be applied to a broad spectrum of complex learning problems which were difficult to solve using…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-09-23 Faisal Ghaffar , Sarwar Khan , Gaddisa O. , Chen Yu-jhen

Evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs) with respect to real-world code complexity is essential. Otherwise, there is a risk of overestimating LLMs' programming abilities based on simplistic benchmarks, only to be disappointed when using…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yang Chen , Shuyang Liu , Reyhaneh Jabbarvand

We consider the problem of Named Entity Recognition (NER) on biomedical scientific literature, and more specifically the genomic variants recognition in this work. Significant success has been achieved for NER on canonical tasks in recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Chaoran Cheng , Fei Tan , Zhi Wei

Sequence classification is the supervised learning task of building models that predict class labels of unseen sequences of symbols. Although accuracy is paramount, in certain scenarios interpretability is a must. Unfortunately, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Severin Gsponer , Luca Costabello , Chan Le Van , Sumit Pai , Christophe Gueret , Georgiana Ifrim , Freddy Lecue

In this paper, we tackle a critical challenge in model evaluation: how to keep code benchmarks useful when models might have already seen them during training. We introduce a novel solution, dynamic benchmarking framework, to address this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Batu Guan , Xiao Wu , Yuanyuan Yuan , Shaohua Li

In contrast to their remarkable performance on general knowledge QA, the true abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) in tasks demanding deep, specialized reasoning, such as in protein biology, have yet to be thoroughly investigated.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-30 Dingyi Rong , Zijian Chen , Qi Jia , Kaiwei Zhang , Haotian Lu , Guangtao Zhai , Ning Liu

We introduce LexBench, a comprehensive evaluation suite enabled to test language models (LMs) on ten semantic phrase processing tasks. Unlike prior studies, it is the first work to propose a framework from the comparative perspective to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Yang Liu , Melissa Xiaohui Qin , Hongming Li , Chao Huang

We introduce DA-Code, a code generation benchmark specifically designed to assess LLMs on agent-based data science tasks. This benchmark features three core elements: First, the tasks within DA-Code are inherently challenging, setting them…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Yiming Huang , Jianwen Luo , Yan Yu , Yitong Zhang , Fangyu Lei , Yifan Wei , Shizhu He , Lifu Huang , Xiao Liu , Jun Zhao , Kang Liu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant strides in front-end code generation. However, existing benchmarks exhibit several critical limitations: many tasks are overly simplistic, test cases often lack rigor, and end-to-end…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Hongda Zhu , Yiwen Zhang , Bing Zhao , Jingzhe Ding , Siyao Liu , Tong Liu , Dandan Wang , Yanan Liu , Zhaojian Li

It has become a common pattern in our field: One group introduces a language task, exemplified by a dataset, which they argue is challenging enough to serve as a benchmark. They also provide a baseline model for it, which then soon is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-10 David Schlangen

Disease name recognition and normalization, which is generally called biomedical entity linking, is a fundamental process in biomedical text mining. Recently, neural joint learning of both tasks has been proposed to utilize the mutual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Shogo Ujiie , Hayate Iso , Shuntaro Yada , Shoko Wakamiya , Eiji Aramaki

DNA language models are increasingly used to represent genomic sequence, yet their effectiveness depends critically on how raw nucleotides are converted into model inputs. Unlike natural language, DNA offers no canonical boundaries, making…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-21 Taewon Kim , Jihwan Shin , Hyomin Kim , Youngmok Jung , Jonghoon Lee , Won-Chul Lee , Sungsoo Ahn , Insu Han

Background: The inception of next generations sequencing technologies have exponentially increased the volume of biological sequence data. Protein sequences, being quoted as the `language of life', has been analyzed for a multitude of…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-12-08 Nabil Ibtehaz , S. M. Shakhawat Hossain Sourav , Md. Shamsuzzoha Bayzid , M. Sohel Rahman