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Bytes form the basis of the digital world and thus are a promising building block for multimodal foundation models. Recently, Byte Language Models (BLMs) have emerged to overcome tokenization, yet the excessive length of bytestreams…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Eric Egli , Matteo Manica , Jannis Born

State-space models (SSMs) are a popular tool for modeling animal abundances. Inference difficulties for simple linear SSMs are well known, particularly in relation to simultaneous estimation of process and observation variances. Several…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2019-09-20 Leo Polansky , Ken B. Newman , Lara Mitchell

Multi-sequence Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) offers remarkable versatility, enabling the distinct visualization of different tissue types. Nevertheless, the inherent heterogeneity among MRI sequences poses significant challenges to the…

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) enables single-cell transcriptomic profiling, revealing cellular heterogeneity and rare populations. Recent deep learning models like Geneformer and Mouse-Geneformer perform well on tasks such as…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-11 Yuki Nishio , Takayoshi Yamashita , Keita Ito , Tsubasa Hirakawa , Hironobu Fujiyoshi

Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations are fundamental computational tools for the study of proteins and their free energy landscapes. However, sampling protein conformational changes through MD simulations is challenging due to the relatively…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-20 Diego E. Kleiman , Hassan Nadeem , Diwakar Shukla

Structural assessment of biomolecular complexes is vital for translating molecular models into functional insights, shaping our understanding of biology and aiding drug discovery. However, current structure-based scoring functions often…

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable generalizability across diverse tasks, yet genomic foundation models (GFMs) still require separate finetuning for each downstream application, creating significant overhead as model sizes…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-07 Zehui Li , Vallijah Subasri , Yifei Shen , Dongsheng Li , Yiren Zhao , Guy-Bart Stan , Caihua Shan

In this paper, I introduce a Sequence-based Multiscale Model (SeqMM) for the biomolecular data analysis. With the combination of spectral graph method, I reveal the essential difference between the global scale models and local scale ones…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-03-08 Kelin Xia

Proteins perform critical processes in all living systems: converting solar energy into chemical energy, replicating DNA, as the basis of highly performant materials, sensing and much more. While an incredible range of functionality has…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-29 Leonardo V. Castorina , Rokas Petrenas , Kartic Subr , Christopher W. Wood

We present Branch-Train-Merge (BTM), a communication-efficient algorithm for embarrassingly parallel training of large language models (LLMs). We show it is possible to independently train subparts of a new class of LLMs on different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Margaret Li , Suchin Gururangan , Tim Dettmers , Mike Lewis , Tim Althoff , Noah A. Smith , Luke Zettlemoyer

Computational models starting from large ensembles of evolutionarily related protein sequences capture a representation of protein families and learn constraints associated to protein structure and function. They thus open the possibility…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-30 Damiano Sgarbossa , Umberto Lupo , Anne-Florence Bitbol

Applications of single-cell RNA sequencing in various biomedical research areas have been blooming. This new technology provides unprecedented opportunities to study disease heterogeneity at the cellular level. However, unique…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2021-10-26 Xinlei Mi , William Bekerman , Peter A. Sims , Peter D. Canoll , Jianhua Hu

Genomic signal processing has been used successfully in bioinformatics to analyze biomolecular sequences and gain varied insights into DNA structure, gene organization, protein binding, sequence evolution, etc. But challenges remain in…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-04 Saish Jaiswal , Shreya Nema , Hema A Murthy , Manikandan Narayanan

The visual pathway of human brain includes two sub-pathways, ie, the ventral pathway and the dorsal pathway, which focus on object identification and dynamic information modeling, respectively. Both pathways comprise multi-layer structures,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Zhifan Wan , Jie Zhang , Changzhen Li , Shiguang Shan

Genes are fundamental for analyzing biological systems and many recent works proposed to utilize gene expression for various biological tasks by deep learning models. Despite their promising performance, it is hard for deep neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Xinnan Dai , Caihua Shan , Jie Zheng , Xiaoxiao Li , Dongsheng Li

Large language models (LLMs) are having transformative impacts across a wide range of scientific fields, particularly in the biomedical sciences. Just as the goal of Natural Language Processing is to understand sequences of words, a major…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-24 Gonzalo Benegas , Chengzhong Ye , Carlos Albors , Jianan Canal Li , Yun S. Song

The Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM), an important tool used in machine learning in particular for unsupervized learning tasks, is investigated from the perspective of its spectral properties. Starting from empirical observations, we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-01-17 Aurélien Decelle , Giancarlo Fissore , Cyril Furtlehner

Proteins are macromolecules that perform essential functions in all living organisms. Designing novel proteins with specific structures and desired functions has been a long-standing challenge in the field of bioengineering. Existing…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-03-03 Chence Shi , Chuanrui Wang , Jiarui Lu , Bozitao Zhong , Jian Tang

Biosignals offer valuable insights into the physiological states of the human body. Although biosignal modalities differ in functionality, signal fidelity, sensor comfort, and cost, they are often intercorrelated, reflecting the holistic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Chenqi Li , Yu Liu , Timothy Denison , Tingting Zhu

The deep extension of the restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM), known as the deep Boltzmann machine (DBM), is an expressive family of machine learning models which can serve as compact representations of complex probability distributions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Haik Manukian , Massimiliano Di Ventra