Wisteria: A Unified Multi-Scale Feature Learning Framework for DNA Language Model

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Autori principali: Wang, Weihua, Li, Haoji, Bao, Feilong, Yang, Lei, Gao, Guanglai
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Pubblicazione: 2026
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author Wang, Weihua
Li, Haoji
Bao, Feilong
Yang, Lei
Gao, Guanglai
author_facet Wang, Weihua
Li, Haoji
Bao, Feilong
Yang, Lei
Gao, Guanglai
contents DNA language model aims to decipher the regulatory grammar and semantic of genomes by capturing long range dependencies in DNA sequences. Existing methods emphasize long range token interactions but often ignore the interplay between local motifs and global dependencies. In this paper, we propose Wisteria, a genomic language model that integrates multi scale feature learning within a unified framework for DNA sequence. Specifically, Wisteria augments the Mamba based architecture with gated dilated convolutions to capture local motifs and regulatory patterns, while gated multilayer perceptrons refine global dependencies. We further introduce a Fourier based attention mechanism to support frequency domain modeling, periodic extension and length generalization. Across four experimental settings with both short and long range dependencies, Wisteria demonstrates strong performance on downstream benchmarks against competitive DNA language model baselines. These results indicate that Wisteria effectively unifies local and global dependency modeling for multi scale genomic sequence analysis.
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spellingShingle Wisteria: A Unified Multi-Scale Feature Learning Framework for DNA Language Model
Wang, Weihua
Li, Haoji
Bao, Feilong
Yang, Lei
Gao, Guanglai
Artificial Intelligence
DNA language model aims to decipher the regulatory grammar and semantic of genomes by capturing long range dependencies in DNA sequences. Existing methods emphasize long range token interactions but often ignore the interplay between local motifs and global dependencies. In this paper, we propose Wisteria, a genomic language model that integrates multi scale feature learning within a unified framework for DNA sequence. Specifically, Wisteria augments the Mamba based architecture with gated dilated convolutions to capture local motifs and regulatory patterns, while gated multilayer perceptrons refine global dependencies. We further introduce a Fourier based attention mechanism to support frequency domain modeling, periodic extension and length generalization. Across four experimental settings with both short and long range dependencies, Wisteria demonstrates strong performance on downstream benchmarks against competitive DNA language model baselines. These results indicate that Wisteria effectively unifies local and global dependency modeling for multi scale genomic sequence analysis.
title Wisteria: A Unified Multi-Scale Feature Learning Framework for DNA Language Model
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.05913