BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Safeguarding open-weight genomic foundation models through weight locking
Aris Karatzikos, Aggeliki Vasilopoulou, Candace S. Y. Chan…·Ilias Georgakopoulos‐Soares
The paper evaluates weight-locking techniques to prevent fine-tuning of genomic foundation models, finding that naive attacks fail but informed attacks can partially bypass the lock.
DOI 10.64898/2026.07.07.736795