Plant BiologybioRxivPreprint
What does domain-specific pretraining buy? A 170,000-parameter plant peptide language model against the ESM-2 scaling curve
Kelly L. Vomo-Donfack, Melissa Aberbache, Ali Cantez…·Ian Morilla
The paper trains a domain-specific plant peptide language model and compares its performance to generalist models, finding domain pretraining provides significant efficiency gains.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.19.760098