rewirebio.iobenchmarks
Evidence and investigation

Contested results

Where one study disagrees with what other studies report for the same models, and what we are doing to resolve each case.

These are automatic leads, not findings of error. Each release, a check compares how every study ranks the models it shares with other studies. It flags a study that reverses the order the others agree on, or whose gap to a shared reference model lies well outside theirs. Different tasks, populations or metrics often explain a flag.

A flag never hides a result. Flagged results stay in every table, page and download, marked Contested. A result is withheld only when a reviewer marks it disputed.

How the check works, and how each follow-up is recorded: discrepancies between studies.

In this release

  • 121open
  • 5settled
  • 7resolved
  • 1medium severity
  • 132low severity

Release 2026-11-02-a7f03c9e55a5 · 133 findings in all · rules version 4

Findings

Status: All · Open · Settled · Resolved

Severity: All · Medium · Low

State: All · Not yet reviewed · Under investigation · Explained · Confirmed error · Not a real disagreement

Showing findings that compare Nucleotide Transformer. All models

2 findings match, most severe first.

Nucleotide Transformer v2 and Nucleotide Transformer: GENEB leaderboard (leaderboard.json, 13 task-type aggregates) reverses the order

  • Low severity
  • Not yet reviewed
  • Ordering reversal
  • different-task

GENEB leaderboard (leaderboard.json, 13 task-type aggregates) ranks Nucleotide Transformer above Nucleotide Transformer v2 in 37 of 44 comparisons; 2 of 2 other studies rank Nucleotide Transformer v2 above Nucleotide Transformer.

2 papers rank Nucleotide Transformer v2 above Nucleotide Transformer in 33 of their 46 comparisons and Nucleotide Transformer higher in 7; 6 are ties. GENEB leaderboard ranks Nucleotide Transformer above Nucleotide Transformer v2 in 37 of its 45 comparisons and Nucleotide Transformer v2 higher in 7; 1 is a tie.

Comparisons in which each paper scores Nucleotide Transformer v2 or Nucleotide Transformer higher2 other papers: Nucleotide Transformer v2 higher in 33, Nucleotide Transformer higher in 7, 6 ties. GENEB leaderboard (disagrees): Nucleotide Transformer v2 higher in 7, Nucleotide Transformer higher in 37, 1 tie.2 other papers33 Nucleotide Transformer v2 higher336 tie67 Nucleotide Transformer higher7Disagrees: GENEB leaderboardGENEB leaderboard (leaderboard.json, 13 task-type aggregates)7 Nucleotide Transformer v2 higher71 tie37 Nucleotide Transformer higher37
Nucleotide Transformer v2 higherTieNucleotide Transformer higher
Compared
Nucleotide Transformer v2, Nucleotide Transformer

Not reviewed yet.

Nucleotide Transformer and RNAErnie: Benchmarking pre-trained genomic language models for RNA sequence-related predictive applications and RNAGym fitness leaderboard (v0.1.1), leaderboard/fitness/README.md disagree

  • Low severity
  • Not yet reviewed
  • two-study-conflict
  • unknown

Benchmarking pre-trained genomic language models for RNA sequence-related predictive applications ranks Nucleotide Transformer above RNAErnie in 7 of 7 comparisons; RNAGym fitness leaderboard (v0.1.1), leaderboard/fitness/README.md ranks RNAErnie above Nucleotide Transformer in 4 of 4 comparisons. No other study gives a verdict, so neither is the outlier.

2 papers rank Nucleotide Transformer above RNAErnie in 7 of their 19 comparisons and RNAErnie higher in 4; 8 are ties. Of those papers, RNAGym fitness leaderboard ranks RNAErnie higher on its own (4 of 4).

Comparisons in which each paper scores Nucleotide Transformer or RNAErnie higher2 other papers: Nucleotide Transformer higher in 7, RNAErnie higher in 4, 8 ties.2 other papers7 Nucleotide Transformer higher78 tie84 RNAErnie higher4
Nucleotide Transformer higherTieRNAErnie higher
Compared
Nucleotide Transformer, RNAErnie

Not reviewed yet.