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Aug 2026
Attention-Enhanced Bi-LSTM Ensembles with Frozen ESM-2 Embeddings Achieve Competitive Performance in Protein Subcellular Localization
Attention weight analysis shows the model identifies biologically relevant signals, including C-terminal membrane regions and N-terminal mitochondrial sequences, confirming that ESM-2 embeddings enable effective performance with simplified architectures.
Johaimen Omar
· International journal of lif... · 0 citations