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Evolutionary nonindependence impacts biological foundation models

Reasoning that evolutionary nonindependence in sequence data limits the effective sample size and diversity in biological foundation models, causing uneven biases and degraded generalization, especially evident in COX1 sequence variation across taxa.

Confidence
90%
◑partialactivecomplexity: mid

Reasoning Steps (3)

Variation of effective sequence number across taxa and protein familiesStep 1
Uneven distribution of nonindependence causes biased model errorStep 2
Model scope limits generalization across evolutionary diversityStep 3

Source

Synthesis for current paper

Connections (1)

Biological foundation models learn evolutionary rulesAssociation