RIBOSPAN: A Long-Context RNA Foundation Model for Versatile RNA Modeling

arXiv:2608.22849 · cs.LG, q-bio.GN · Submitted 2026-08-24 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, q-bio.GN

Submitted: 2026-08-24

Updated: 2026-08-28

Terminology

• Foundation Model — 36× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 18× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 13× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Transformer — 13× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Tokenization — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Foundation Models — 9× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Representation Learning — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Generative Modeling — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Attention Mechanism — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Combinatorial Optimization — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Decode — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Diffusion Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Diffusion Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• EMMA — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• First-Order Transition — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hamming Distance — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Information Leakage — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Perplexity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

• Extending Context Window of Large Language Models via Positional Interpolation
• mRNAutilus: Multi-Objective-Guided Discrete Generation of mRNA with Optimized Therapeutic Properties
• Megatron-LM: Training Multi-Billion Parameter Language Models Using Model Parallelism

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