Advancing Codon Language Modeling with Synonymous Codon Constrained Masking
James Heuschkel, Laura J. Kingsley, Noah B. Pefaur, Andrew E. Nixon, Steven Cramer
This paper introduces SynCodonLM, a codon language model that enforces synonymous codon constraints, improving performance on DNA-level biology benchmarks.
Nucleic Acids Research · Feb 14, 2026Peer-reviewedBioinformatics