Sameed Siddiqui
@sameedms.bsky.social
Californian lost in the Northeast ☀️.
PhD @ MIT Computational and Systems Biology | MBA Fellow at MIT Sloan. @SabetiLab member
PhD @ MIT Computational and Systems Biology | MBA Fellow at MIT Sloan. @SabetiLab member
🧬 Meet Lyra, a new paradigm for accessible, powerful modeling of biological sequences. Lyra is a lightweight SSM achieving SOTA performance across DNA, RNA, and protein tasks—yet up to 120,000x smaller than foundation models (ESM, Evo). Bonus: you can train it on your Mac.
arxiv.org/abs/2503.16351
arxiv.org/abs/2503.16351
March 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
🧬 Meet Lyra, a new paradigm for accessible, powerful modeling of biological sequences. Lyra is a lightweight SSM achieving SOTA performance across DNA, RNA, and protein tasks—yet up to 120,000x smaller than foundation models (ESM, Evo). Bonus: you can train it on your Mac.
arxiv.org/abs/2503.16351
arxiv.org/abs/2503.16351