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DNA Language Models: An Assessment of Pre-Training for Fine-Tuning Tasks

Romain Karpinsky, Julien Mozziconacci, Mickaël Delcey · Jun 29, 2026 · Citations: 0

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Abstract

Recent breakthroughs in foundation models and Large Language Models (LLMs) have introduced new opportunities for studying and decoding genomic sequences. Several state-of-the-art approaches, such as DNABERT2, rely on transformer-based architectures, while others, such as ConvNova, still build upon more conventional convolutional models. However, systematic benchmark comparisons across these methods remain scarce. Given that transformer-based models require extensive and costly pretraining, it is crucial to evaluate whether their performance gains justify this overhead. Moreover, LLMs such as DNABERT2 typically rely on Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) tokenization, whose relevance for DNA sequence representation is still debated within the genomics community. In this work, we investigate three key questions: (i) do transformer-based models provide sufficient improvements on fine-tuning tasks upon heavy pretraining, (ii) what is the actual contribution of pretraining in this setting, and (iii) how does BPE tokenization impact performance on genomics-related tasks?

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Usefulness score

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Evaluation Signal

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"Recent breakthroughs in foundation models and Large Language Models (LLMs) have introduced new opportunities for studying and decoding genomic sequences."

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Automatic Metrics

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"Recent breakthroughs in foundation models and Large Language Models (LLMs) have introduced new opportunities for studying and decoding genomic sequences."

Quality Controls

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"Recent breakthroughs in foundation models and Large Language Models (LLMs) have introduced new opportunities for studying and decoding genomic sequences."

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"Recent breakthroughs in foundation models and Large Language Models (LLMs) have introduced new opportunities for studying and decoding genomic sequences."

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Relevance

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"Moreover, LLMs such as DNABERT2 typically rely on Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) tokenization, whose relevance for DNA sequence representation is still debated within the genomics community."

Human Feedback Details

  • Uses human feedback: No
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  • Expertise required: General

Evaluation Details

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Research Brief

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Recent breakthroughs in foundation models and Large Language Models (LLMs) have introduced new opportunities for studying and decoding genomic sequences.

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Key Takeaways

  • Recent breakthroughs in foundation models and Large Language Models (LLMs) have introduced new opportunities for studying and decoding genomic sequences.
  • Several state-of-the-art approaches, such as DNABERT2, rely on transformer-based architectures, while others, such as ConvNova, still build upon more conventional convolutional models.
  • However, systematic benchmark comparisons across these methods remain scarce.

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