GenoMorph: Pathway-Grounded Genomic Disease Reasoning via Adaptive Latent Computation
cs.AI, q-bio.GN
Submitted: 2026-09-28
Updated: 2026-09-28
Code: https://github.com/IITP-CSE/GeneticAI
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The gist: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in biological reasoning; however, genomic disease inference remains largely dependent on memorized gene-disease associations rather
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Abstract
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in biological reasoning; however, genomic disease inference remains largely dependent on memorized gene-disease associations rather than understanding biological pathways. This shortcut learning undermines robustness and generalization, and breaks down when molecular identifiers are unavailable. We present GenoMorph, a multimodal genomic reasoning framework that shifts disease prediction from associative gene-disease mapping toward pathway-grounded reasoning. GenoMorph couples a frozen DNA foundation model with question-conditioned cross-attention fusion, self-adaptive latent reasoning (LatentSp), a residual reasoning gate for iterative genomic evidence reinjection, and rejection sampling fine-tuning regularized by hierarchical optimal transport (OT). Rather than learning direct gene-disease mappings, GenoMorph aligns genomic sequence representations with latent pathway dynamics, enabling reasoning trajectories that follow molecular interactions before producing disease predictions. LatentSp dynamically allocates computation according to reasoning confidence, reducing unnecessary reasoning steps and improving inference efficiency. We further construct an anonymized benchmark from the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG), replacing every gene and molecular identifier with anonymous symbols while preserving sequences and pathway topology, thereby removing memorization shortcuts. GenoMorph raises the weighted F1 from 0.7863 (BioReason) to 0.9412, and rejection sampling fine-tuning with self-adaptive latent reasoning pushes it to 0.9725 while cutting latency nearly 60%. On the anonymized benchmark it reaches 0.9465 F1, substantially outperforming prior systems and confirming that accurate disease prediction can arise from pathway reasoning rather than memorized gene-disease associations.
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