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K-attention: a biologically informed attention operator for data-efficient sequence-based omics modeling

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Tao Liu
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Jing-Yi Li *
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Ziyu Chen
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Chan Gu
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Tong Zhou
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Shi-Qi Yang
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Yang Ding
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Ge Gao *
DOI:10.1093/bib/bbag351delete
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Abstract

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Deep learning-based modeling of omics data often suffers from insufficiency and heterogeneity of the data itself. As a step towards addressing these issues, we present K-attention, a biologically informed operator that models interactions between sequence fragments effectively and efficiently. Across both biologically informed simulated datasets and two real-world omics tasks, K-attention-based networks consistently outperform canonical convolutional neural network (CNN)- and Transformer-based models, with the largest gains observed in low-data regimes. Collectively, these results indicate that K-attention enables data-efficient and biologically grounded modeling under real-world constraints.

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Briefings in Bioinformatics cover
Briefings in Bioinformatics
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Changping Laboratory
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