Pervasive Backdoor Vulnerabilities in Genomic Foundation Models
Shiwen Ni, Qianning Wang, Chi Wei, Xiaomin Ni, Shuaimin Li, Zixin Zhao, Hui Li, Rongrong Ji, Xu Ruifeng, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny, Teng Wang, Min Yang
This study identifies backdoor vulnerabilities in genomic foundation models through data poisoning during fine-tuning and proposes an auditing framework to detect such threats.
bioRxiv · Oct 5, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics