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 RNA-FM. All models

3 findings match, most severe first.

RNA-FM and RNAErnie: Zero-shot benchmarking of RNA language models in structural, functional, and evolutionary learning reverses the order

  • Low severity
  • Not yet reviewed
  • Ordering reversal
  • Same task, different protocols

Zero-shot benchmarking of RNA language models in structural, functional, and evolutionary learning ranks RNA-FM above RNAErnie in 28 of 36 comparisons; 2 of 2 other studies rank RNAErnie above RNA-FM.

2 papers rank RNAErnie above RNA-FM in all 6 comparisons that are not ties (13 are ties). Zero-shot benchmarking of RNA language… ranks RNA-FM above RNAErnie in 28 of its 36 comparisons and RNAErnie higher in 8.

Comparisons in which each paper scores RNAErnie or RNA-FM higher2 other papers: RNAErnie higher in 6, RNA-FM higher in 0, 13 ties. Zero-shot benchmarking of RNA language… (disagrees): RNAErnie higher in 8, RNA-FM higher in 28, 0 ties.2 other papers6 RNAErnie higher613 tie13Disagrees: Zero-shot benchmarking of RNA language…Zero-shot benchmarking of RNA language models in structural, functional, and evolutionary learning8 RNAErnie higher828 RNA-FM higher28
RNAErnie higherTieRNA-FM higher
Compared
RNA-FM, RNAErnie

Not reviewed yet.

DNABERT-2 and RNA-FM: mRNABench: A curated benchmark for mature mRNA property and function prediction reverses the order

  • Low severity
  • Explained
  • Ordering reversal
  • unknown

mRNABench: A curated benchmark for mature mRNA property and function prediction ranks DNABERT-2 above RNA-FM in 7 of 7 comparisons; 2 of 2 other studies rank RNA-FM above DNABERT-2.

2 papers rank RNA-FM above DNABERT-2 in all 30 comparisons that are not ties (4 are ties). MRNABench ranks DNABERT-2 above RNA-FM in all 7 comparisons that are not ties (3 are ties).

Comparisons in which each paper scores RNA-FM or DNABERT-2 higher2 other papers: RNA-FM higher in 30, DNABERT-2 higher in 0, 4 ties. mRNABench (disagrees): RNA-FM higher in 0, DNABERT-2 higher in 7, 3 ties.2 other papers30 RNA-FM higher304 tie4Disagrees: mRNABenchmRNABench: A curated benchmark for mature mRNA property and function prediction3 tie37 DNABERT-2 higher7
RNA-FM higherTieDNABERT-2 higher
Compared
DNABERT-2, RNA-FM

1 follow-up action, latest 23 October 2026

RNA-FM and SpliceBERT: Benchmarking pre-trained genomic language models for RNA sequence-related predictive applications and Zero-shot benchmarking of RNA language models in structural, functional, and evolutionary learning disagree

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

Benchmarking pre-trained genomic language models for RNA sequence-related predictive applications ranks SpliceBERT above RNA-FM in 3 of 3 comparisons; Zero-shot benchmarking of RNA language models in structural, functional, and evolutionary learning ranks RNA-FM above SpliceBERT in 31 of 36 comparisons. No other study gives a verdict, so neither is the outlier.

2 papers rank RNA-FM above SpliceBERT in 31 of their 51 comparisons and SpliceBERT higher in 8; 12 are ties. Of those papers, Benchmarking pre-trained genomic… ranks SpliceBERT higher on its own (3 of 15).

Comparisons in which each paper scores RNA-FM or SpliceBERT higher2 other papers: RNA-FM higher in 31, SpliceBERT higher in 8, 12 ties.2 other papers31 RNA-FM higher3112 tie128 SpliceBERT higher8
RNA-FM higherTieSpliceBERT higher
Compared
RNA-FM, SpliceBERT

Not reviewed yet.