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How would you test whether a genomic model actually uses its long context?

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A model accepting a megabase of DNA establishes input capacity. Demonstrating useful distal information needs a task-specific test. In a review I wrote, I suggest comparing nested crop lengths with the same prediction head and evaluation split, then occluding or shuffling distal intervals while pre…

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