If you can teach a model genomics, it can teach genomics back to you. You can follow its eyes to understand how it thinks!

That information lies within the attention map. In nucleotide-based models, it holds a truth about which area of the genome is linked to which other.

Nucleotide Transformer clipped attention weights on a hundred nucleotides from GRCh38 chromosome 11.

Depending on the task the model has been trained on performing, the information gathered through this process can represent different kinds of relationships.