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BarcodeMamba+: Advancing State-Space Models for Fungal Biodiversity Research
Tiancheng Gao, Scott C. Lowe, Brendan Furneaux +2
Accurate taxonomic classification from DNA barcodes is a cornerstone of global biodiversity monitoring, yet fungi present extreme challenges due to sparse labelling and long-tailed…
Hyperbolic Multimodal Representation Learning for Biological Taxonomies
ZeMing Gong, Chuanqi Tang, Xiaoliang Huo +6
Taxonomic classification in biodiversity research involves organizing biological specimens into structured hierarchies based on evidence, which can come from multiple modalities su…
BarcodeBERT: Transformers for Biodiversity Analysis
Pablo Millan Arias, Niousha Sadjadi, Monireh Safari +9
In the global challenge of understanding and characterizing biodiversity, short species-specific genomic sequences known as DNA barcodes play a critical role, enabling fine-grained…
BIOSCAN-5M: A Multimodal Dataset for Insect Biodiversity
Zahra Gharaee, Scott C. Lowe, ZeMing Gong +10
As part of an ongoing worldwide effort to comprehend and monitor insect biodiversity, this paper presents the BIOSCAN-5M Insect dataset to the machine learning community and establ…
Enhancing DNA Foundation Models to Address Masking Inefficiencies
Monireh Safari, Pablo Millan Arias, Scott C. Lowe +3
Masked language modelling (MLM) as a pretraining objective has been widely adopted in genomic sequence modelling. While pretrained models can successfully serve as encoders for var…
An Empirical Study into Clustering of Unseen Datasets with Self-Supervised Encoders
Scott C. Lowe, Joakim Bruslund Haurum, Sageev Oore +2
Can pretrained models generalize to new datasets without any retraining? We deploy pretrained image models on datasets they were not trained for, and investigate whether their embe…