Coalescence and Translation: A Language Model for Population Genetics
Kevin Korfmann, Nathaniel S. Pope, Melinda Meleghy, Aurélien Tellier, Andrew D. Kern
The paper introduces cxt, a transformer-based model that predicts coalescence times from mutation patterns, achieving performance comparable to MCMC methods and enabling efficient inference on genomic data.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Apr 10, 2026Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology