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Masked-token RNA transformer encoder
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RNA-FM
RNA-FM learns contextual representations of RNA nucleotides for downstream RNA analyses.
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ml4bio/RNA-FM: README.md; ml4bio/RNA-FM: fm/pretrained.py · README.md: Quick Start, embedding examples and RNA foundation model comparison tableHow it worksRNA-FM workflow
Conceptual summary of the documented data flow; optional inputs and configured downstream stages must be reported for a reproducible evaluation.
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ml4bio/RNA-FM: README.md; ml4bio/RNA-FM: fm/pretrained.py · README.md: Quick Start, embedding examples and RNA foundation model comparison tableOverview
Inputs
RNA sequences tokenized at nucleotide resolution.
Outputs
Contextual token embeddings for a specified downstream RNA task.
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Official project documentation and implementation: https://github.com/ml4bio/RNA-FM
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| Tested configuration | Protocol and dataset | Finding | Evidence and details |
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| Configuration: RNA-FM | Task: mRNABench ECLIP: eCLIP binding site prediction Dataset subset: mRNABench eCLIP (mRNABench split) | 35% auprc percent · higher Uncertainty: Not reported Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible | Author-reported evaluation · Source checkedMethods, coverage and sourceRNA-FM on mRNABench ECLIP: eCLIP binding site prediction A linear probe over frozen embeddings, scored as the mean over ten random seeds. Aggregation: Not reported mRNABench: A curated benchmark for mature mRNA property and function prediction · Table 2, row(RNA-FM), column(eCLIP) |
| Configuration: RNA-FM | Task: mRNABench GO: Gene Ontology term prediction Dataset subset: mRNABench GO (mRNABench split) | 32.2% auprc percent · higher Uncertainty: Not reported Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible | Author-reported evaluation · Source checkedMethods, coverage and sourceRNA-FM on mRNABench GO: Gene Ontology term prediction A linear probe over frozen embeddings, scored as the mean over ten random seeds. Aggregation: Not reported mRNABench: A curated benchmark for mature mRNA property and function prediction · Table 2, row(RNA-FM), column(GO) |
| Configuration: RNA-FM | Task: mRNABench HL: mRNA half life Dataset subset: mRNABench HL (mRNABench split) | 0.47 pearson_r correlation · higher Uncertainty: Not reported Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible | Author-reported evaluation · Source checkedMethods, coverage and sourceRNA-FM on mRNABench HL: mRNA half life A linear probe over frozen embeddings, scored as the mean over ten random seeds. Aggregation: Not reported mRNABench: A curated benchmark for mature mRNA property and function prediction · Table 2, row(RNA-FM), column(HL) |
| Configuration: RNA-FM | Task: mRNABench MRL-HL-PAIR: Paired mean ribosome load and half life Dataset subset: mRNABench MRL-HL-Pair (mRNABench split) | 0.49 pearson_r correlation · higher Uncertainty: Not reported Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible | Author-reported evaluation · Source checkedMethods, coverage and sourceRNA-FM on mRNABench MRL-HL-PAIR: Paired mean ribosome load and half life A linear probe over frozen embeddings, scored as the mean over ten random seeds. Aggregation: Not reported mRNABench: A curated benchmark for mature mRNA property and function prediction · Table 2, row(RNA-FM), column(MRL-HL-Pair) |
| Configuration: RNA-FM | Task: mRNABench MRL-MPRA: Mean ribosome load on an MPRA library Dataset subset: mRNABench MRL MPRA (mRNABench split) | 0.49 pearson_r correlation · higher Uncertainty: Not reported Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible | Author-reported evaluation · Source checkedMethods, coverage and sourceRNA-FM on mRNABench MRL-MPRA: Mean ribosome load on an MPRA library A linear probe over frozen embeddings, scored as the mean over ten random seeds. Aggregation: Not reported mRNABench: A curated benchmark for mature mRNA property and function prediction · Table 2, row(RNA-FM), column(MRL MPRA) |
| Configuration: RNA-FM | Task: mRNABench MRL: Mean ribosome load Dataset subset: mRNABench MRL (mRNABench split) | 0.29 pearson_r correlation · higher Uncertainty: Not reported Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible | Author-reported evaluation · Source checkedMethods, coverage and sourceRNA-FM on mRNABench MRL: Mean ribosome load A linear probe over frozen embeddings, scored as the mean over ten random seeds. Aggregation: Not reported mRNABench: A curated benchmark for mature mRNA property and function prediction · Table 2, row(RNA-FM), column(MRL) |
| Configuration: RNA-FM | Task: mRNABench MRNA-LOC-LR: mRNA localisation, long range Dataset subset: mRNABench mRNA Loc-LR (mRNABench split) | 74.3% auprc percent · higher Uncertainty: Not reported Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible | Author-reported evaluation · Source checkedMethods, coverage and sourceRNA-FM on mRNABench MRNA-LOC-LR: mRNA localisation, long range A linear probe over frozen embeddings, scored as the mean over ten random seeds. Aggregation: Not reported mRNABench: A curated benchmark for mature mRNA property and function prediction · Table 2, row(RNA-FM), column(mRNA Loc-LR) |
| Configuration: RNA-FM | Task: mRNABench MRNA-LOC-SR: mRNA localisation, short range Dataset subset: mRNABench mRNA Loc-SR (mRNABench split) | 67% auprc percent · higher Uncertainty: Not reported Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible | Author-reported evaluation · Source checkedMethods, coverage and sourceRNA-FM on mRNABench MRNA-LOC-SR: mRNA localisation, short range A linear probe over frozen embeddings, scored as the mean over ten random seeds. Aggregation: Not reported mRNABench: A curated benchmark for mature mRNA property and function prediction · Table 2, row(RNA-FM), column(mRNA Loc-SR) |
| Configuration: RNA-FM | Task: mRNABench PROT-LOC: Protein localisation Dataset subset: mRNABench Prot Loc (mRNABench split) | 32.2% auprc percent · higher Uncertainty: Not reported Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible | Author-reported evaluation · Source checkedMethods, coverage and sourceRNA-FM on mRNABench PROT-LOC: Protein localisation A linear probe over frozen embeddings, scored as the mean over ten random seeds. Aggregation: Not reported mRNABench: A curated benchmark for mature mRNA property and function prediction · Table 2, row(RNA-FM), column(Prot Loc) |
| Configuration: RNA-FM | Task: mRNABench VEP: Variant effect prediction Dataset subset: mRNABench VEP (mRNABench split) | 25.7% auprc percent · higher Uncertainty: Not reported Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible | Author-reported evaluation · Source checkedMethods, coverage and sourceRNA-FM on mRNABench VEP: Variant effect prediction A linear probe over frozen embeddings, scored as the mean over ten random seeds. Aggregation: Not reported mRNABench: A curated benchmark for mature mRNA property and function prediction · Table 2, row(RNA-FM), column(VEP) |
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RNA-FM converts an RNA sequence into one token per nucleotide. Twelve transformer encoder blocks use self-attention to produce a 640-dimensional representation at each position. During pretraining, the model learns to recover masked nucleotides from their surrounding sequence. The resulting representations can be supplied to a separately specified downstream model; they are not, by themselves, a structure or functional prediction.
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RNA-FM original methods, arXiv v5 · arXiv:2204.00300v5, Methods: ncRNA data collection and preprocessing and RNA foundation model training details (p.22)Versions and reproducibility
The nucleotide-based rna_fm_t12 and codon-based mrna_fm_t12 interfaces are distinct. The original RNA-FM paper sets a training input-length limit of 1,024 and describes a usable limit of 1,022 nucleotides. That limit should not be assigned to mRNA-FM without checking its separate configuration.
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ml4bio/RNA-FM: README.md; ml4bio/RNA-FM: fm/pretrained.py; RNA-FM original methods, arXiv v5 · Official README: Quick Start and RNA-FM/mRNA-FM examples; arXiv:2204.00300v5, Methods: training input length and SARS-CoV-2 genome embedding extraction (pp.22–23)Strengths, limitations and unresolved questions
Strengths and limitations
Strengths and considerations
- The repository exposes embedding extraction and examples for downstream RNA analyses.
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ml4bio/RNA-FM: README.md; ml4bio/RNA-FM: fm/pretrained.py · README.md: Quick Start, embedding examples and RNA foundation model comparison table
Limitations and conditions
- Base-level RNA-FM and codon-level mRNA-FM are not interchangeable. The task head and tokenization must be specified in each evaluation.
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ml4bio/RNA-FM: README.md; ml4bio/RNA-FM: fm/pretrained.py · README.md: Quick Start, embedding examples and RNA foundation model comparison table
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| Property | Description and evidence |
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| Model type | Masked-token RNA transformer encoderSources (2)ml4bio/RNA-FM: README.md; ml4bio/RNA-FM: fm/pretrained.py · README.md: Quick Start, embedding examples and RNA foundation model comparison table |
| Architecture | 12-layer masked-token transformer encoder with hidden width 640 and 20 attention heads; nucleotide tokens produce contextual representations.SourcesRNA-FM original methods, arXiv v5 · arXiv:2204.00300v5, Methods: ncRNA data collection and preprocessing and RNA foundation model training details (p.22) |
| Inputs | RNA sequences tokenized at nucleotide resolution.Sources (2)ml4bio/RNA-FM: README.md; ml4bio/RNA-FM: fm/pretrained.py · README.md: Quick Start, embedding examples and RNA foundation model comparison table |
| Outputs | Contextual token embeddings for a specified downstream RNA task.Sources (2)ml4bio/RNA-FM: README.md; ml4bio/RNA-FM: fm/pretrained.py · README.md: Quick Start, embedding examples and RNA foundation model comparison table |
| Parameters | 99M, as printed in the official Foundation Models table.Sources (2)ml4bio/RNA-FM: README.md; ml4bio/RNA-FM: fm/pretrained.py · README.md: Quick Start, embedding examples and RNA foundation model comparison table |
| Known versions | rna_fm_t12 and mrna_fm_t12 are separate pretrained interfaces.Sources (2)ml4bio/RNA-FM: README.md; ml4bio/RNA-FM: fm/pretrained.py · README.md: Quick Start, embedding examples and RNA foundation model comparison table |
| Training data | 23.7 million non-coding RNA sequences collected from RNAcentral. The authors replace T with U and remove identical sequences using CD-HIT-EST at 100% identity, naming the resulting corpus RNAcentral100.SourcesRNA-FM original methods, arXiv v5 · arXiv:2204.00300v5, Methods: ncRNA data collection and preprocessing and RNA foundation model training details (p.22) |
| Training cutoff | The original Methods describe RNAcentral100 preprocessing but do not establish a dated RNAcentral release. RNAcentral100 is a processed-corpus label, not a release number. · Not reported in inspected sourcesSourcesRNA-FM original methods, arXiv v5 · arXiv2204.00300v5, Methods: Large-scale pre-training dataset, p22 |
| Context limits | The original paper sets a training input-length limit of 1,024 and describes a usable input limit of 1,022 nucleotides. These are the original RNA-FM settings, not a validated limit for later codon-based mRNA-FM checkpoints.SourcesRNA-FM original methods, arXiv v5 · arXiv:2204.00300v5, Methods: RNA foundation model training details (pp.22–23) and RNA-FM application input-limit statement (p.23) |
| Weights licence | The official model-comparison table labels RNA-FM MIT, while the README footer explicitly refers to source code. Separate checkpoint-distribution terms remain unverified; the linked weight repository could not be retrieved during this review. · Not reported in inspected sourcesSources (3)ml4bio/RNA-FM: README.md; ml4bio/RNA-FM: LICENSE; rnafm loader: primary artifact · README: Related RNA Language Models, RNA-FM row; License footer; LICENSE. Linked https://huggingface.co/ml4bio/RNA-FM returned HTTP401 during the review. |
| Access | Official project documentation and implementation: https://github.com/ml4bio/RNA-FMSources (2)ml4bio/RNA-FM: README.md; ml4bio/RNA-FM: fm/pretrained.py · README.md: Quick Start, embedding examples and RNA foundation model comparison table |
| Code licence | MITSourcesml4bio/RNA-FM: LICENSE · LICENSE: licence text |
| Checkpoint identification | The official rna_fm_t12 loader downloads RNA-FM_pretrained.pth from the authors’ server. The inspected loader does not pin a checkpoint revision or publish a digest; a code commit alone cannot identify the bytes used by a published evaluation. · Not reported in inspected sourcesSourcesrnafm loader: primary artifact · load_fm_model_and_alphabet_hub: rna_fm_t12 branch, lines155–162 |
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| Relationship: family discovery-model-rna-fm Individual claims | ml4bio/RNA-FM: README.md BEACON Table 2 and Appendix A.3.2 RNAcentral ncRNA model, Table 3; mRNABench Table 2 and Appendix inventory; NABench model inventory; source-labelled configuration RNA-FM | Existing reviewed locator: Table 2, row(RNA-FM) Shared locator for this statement’s cited sources; not a separate locator for each citation. Version: 348951516e0963d22bbb33b3c9fc18c89081d38e | source checked automated source review · 2026-09-23 Audit detailsSource review establishes this relationship only. Exact evaluated configurations and original numerical review status remain unchanged. RNA-FM ncRNA backbone explicitly identified; mRNA-FM is distinct and must not inherit these scores. Field: Claim: model-evaluation-identity-19fd3e5fbae5ebd14162 Source artifact SHA-256: Hash scope: SHA-256 of retrieved original artifact bytes Format: original_artifact |
| Relationship: family discovery-model-rna-fm Individual claims | mRNABench: A curated benchmark for mature mRNA property and function prediction BEACON Table 2 and Appendix A.3.2 RNAcentral ncRNA model, Table 3; mRNABench Table 2 and Appendix inventory; NABench model inventory; source-labelled configuration RNA-FM | Existing reviewed locator: Table 2, row(RNA-FM) Shared locator for this statement’s cited sources; not a separate locator for each citation. Version: preprint archived 2025-07-08 | source checked automated source review · 2026-09-23 Audit detailsSource review establishes this relationship only. Exact evaluated configurations and original numerical review status remain unchanged. RNA-FM ncRNA backbone explicitly identified; mRNA-FM is distinct and must not inherit these scores. Field: Claim: model-evaluation-identity-19fd3e5fbae5ebd14162 Source artifact SHA-256: Hash scope: Exact retrieved primary paper artifact bytes. |
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- family: RNA-FM
- subject: RNA-FM: family RNA-FM
- model: RNA-FM on mRNABench ECLIP: eCLIP binding site prediction
- model: RNA-FM on mRNABench GO: Gene Ontology term prediction
- model: RNA-FM on mRNABench HL: mRNA half life
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- model: RNA-FM on mRNABench MRL-HL-PAIR: Paired mean ribosome load and half life
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- model: RNA-FM on mRNABench MRNA-LOC-LR: mRNA localisation, long range
- model: RNA-FM on mRNABench MRNA-LOC-SR: mRNA localisation, short range
- model: RNA-FM on mRNABench PROT-LOC: Protein localisation
- model: RNA-FM on mRNABench VEP: Variant effect prediction