Character-level Tokenizations as Powerful Inductive Biases for RNA Foundational Models

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Autori principali: Morales-Pastor, Adrián, Vázquez-Reza, Raquel, Wieczór, Miłosz, Valverde, Clàudia, Gil-Sorribes, Manel, Miquel-Oliver, Bertran, Ciudad, Álvaro, Molina, Alexis
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author Morales-Pastor, Adrián
Vázquez-Reza, Raquel
Wieczór, Miłosz
Valverde, Clàudia
Gil-Sorribes, Manel
Miquel-Oliver, Bertran
Ciudad, Álvaro
Molina, Alexis
author_facet Morales-Pastor, Adrián
Vázquez-Reza, Raquel
Wieczór, Miłosz
Valverde, Clàudia
Gil-Sorribes, Manel
Miquel-Oliver, Bertran
Ciudad, Álvaro
Molina, Alexis
contents RNA is a vital biomolecule with numerous roles and functions within cells, and interest in targeting it for therapeutic purposes has grown significantly in recent years. However, fully understanding and predicting RNA behavior, particularly for applications in drug discovery, remains a challenge due to the complexity of RNA structures and interactions. While foundational models in biology have demonstrated success in modeling several biomolecules, especially proteins, achieving similar breakthroughs for RNA has proven more difficult. Current RNA models have yet to match the performance observed in the protein domain, leaving an important gap in computational biology. In this work, we present ChaRNABERT, a suite of sample and parameter-efficient RNA foundational models, that through a learnable tokenization process, are able to reach state-of-the-art performance on several tasks in established benchmarks. We extend its testing in relevant downstream tasks such as RNA-protein and aptamer-protein interaction prediction. Weights and inference code for ChaRNABERT-8M will be provided for academic research use. The other models will be available upon request.
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spellingShingle Character-level Tokenizations as Powerful Inductive Biases for RNA Foundational Models
Morales-Pastor, Adrián
Vázquez-Reza, Raquel
Wieczór, Miłosz
Valverde, Clàudia
Gil-Sorribes, Manel
Miquel-Oliver, Bertran
Ciudad, Álvaro
Molina, Alexis
Quantitative Methods
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Biomolecules
RNA is a vital biomolecule with numerous roles and functions within cells, and interest in targeting it for therapeutic purposes has grown significantly in recent years. However, fully understanding and predicting RNA behavior, particularly for applications in drug discovery, remains a challenge due to the complexity of RNA structures and interactions. While foundational models in biology have demonstrated success in modeling several biomolecules, especially proteins, achieving similar breakthroughs for RNA has proven more difficult. Current RNA models have yet to match the performance observed in the protein domain, leaving an important gap in computational biology. In this work, we present ChaRNABERT, a suite of sample and parameter-efficient RNA foundational models, that through a learnable tokenization process, are able to reach state-of-the-art performance on several tasks in established benchmarks. We extend its testing in relevant downstream tasks such as RNA-protein and aptamer-protein interaction prediction. Weights and inference code for ChaRNABERT-8M will be provided for academic research use. The other models will be available upon request.
title Character-level Tokenizations as Powerful Inductive Biases for RNA Foundational Models
topic Quantitative Methods
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Biomolecules
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11808