3 papers
cs.LG2026
Poisoning the corpora of protein design systems during pre-training and retrieval
Charalampos Koilakos, Kimon-Antonios Provatas, Michail Patsakis +3
Protein foundation models increasingly support the generation of novel biological sequences, yet their reliance on large public datasets creates opportunities for adversarial manip…
q-bio.GN2026
Poisoning the Genome: Targeted Backdoor Attacks on DNA Foundation Models
Charalampos Koilakos, Ioannis Mouratidis, Ilias Georgakopoulos-Soares
Foundation models trained on DNA sequences have achieved strong performance across biological tasks including variant effect prediction and genome design. These models rely on mass…
q-bio.GN2025
Investigating DNA words and their distributions across the tree of life
Charalampos Koilakos, Kimonas Provatas, Michail Patsakis +2
The frequency distributions of DNA k-mers are shaped by fundamental biological processes and offer a window into genome structure and evolution. Inspired by analogies to natural la…