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Sep 2026
Evo 2 as a classification machine: evidence from in-context learning and mechanistic interpretability
This work maps the operating regime of Evo 2, a nucleotide-level foundation gLM, across five binary classification tasks spanning biological and artificial sequences and finds no benefit in model scaling, as the 7B model systematically outperforms the 40B variant.
Lorenzo Bertolini, F. Curion, M. Petrillo et al.
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