From nucleotides to semantics: genomic representation learning via joint-embedding predictive architecture
Chengsen Wang, Qi Qi, Haifeng Sun, Zirui Zhuang, Bo He, Siying Liu, Jianxin Liao, Jingyu Wang
This paper introduces GenoJEPA, a genomic representation learning framework that improves efficiency and performance in downstream tasks by focusing on semantic alignment rather than nucleotide-level reconstruction.
bioRxiv · Apr 6, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics