publications

2026

1. Bioinformatics

   

   CodonMoE: DNA language models for codon-dependent mRNA prediction

   Shiyi Du, Litian Liang, Jiayi Li, and 1 more author

   Bioinformatics, 2026

   DOI Bib

   @article{du2026codonmoe,
     title = {CodonMoE: DNA language models for codon-dependent mRNA prediction},
     author = {Du, Shiyi and Liang, Litian and Li, Jiayi and Kingsford, Carl},
     journal = {Bioinformatics},
     volume = {42},
     number = {6},
     pages = {btag285},
     year = {2026},
     doi = {10.1093/bioinformatics/btag285},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btag285}
   }

2025

1. bioRxiv

   

   ARCADE: Controllable Codon Design from Foundation Models via Activation Engineering

   Jiayi Li, Hong-Sheng Lai, Litian Liang, and 3 more authors

   bioRxiv, 2025

   DOI Bib

   @article{li2025arcade,
     title = {ARCADE: Controllable Codon Design from Foundation Models via Activation Engineering},
     author = {Li, Jiayi and Lai, Hong-Sheng and Liang, Litian and Du, Shiyi and Tang, Shijie and Kingsford, Carl},
     journal = {bioRxiv},
     year = {2025},
     doi = {10.1101/2025.08.19.668819},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.19.668819}
   }

2024

1. BIBM

   

   A Quantitative Approach for Evaluating Disease Focus and Interpretability of Deep Learning Models for Alzheimer’s Disease Classification

   Thomas Yu Chow Tam, Litian Liang, Ke Chen, and 2 more authors

   In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2024

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{tam2024quantitative,
     title = {A Quantitative Approach for Evaluating Disease Focus and Interpretability of Deep Learning Models for Alzheimer's Disease Classification},
     author = {Tam, Thomas Yu Chow and Liang, Litian and Chen, Ke and Wang, Haohan and Wu, Wei},
     booktitle = {2024 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM)},
     pages = {5104--5111},
     year = {2024},
     doi = {10.1109/BIBM62325.2024.10822018},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBM62325.2024.10822018}
   }

2023

1. CVPR

   

   Causally-Aware Intraoperative Imputation for Overall Survival Time Prediction

   Xiang Li, Xuelin Qian, Litian Liang, and 6 more authors

   In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{li2023causally,
     title = {Causally-Aware Intraoperative Imputation for Overall Survival Time Prediction},
     author = {Li, Xiang and Qian, Xuelin and Liang, Litian and Kong, Lingjie and Dong, Qiaole and Chen, Jiejun and Liu, Dingxia and Yao, Xiuzhong and Fu, Yanwei},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
     pages = {15681--15690},
     year = {2023},
     doi = {10.1109/CVPR52729.2023.01505},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR52729.2023.01505}
   }