When Do Biological Reasoning Models Use Their Biological Inputs?

Title: When Do Biological Reasoning Models Use Their Biological Inputs? Source: huggingface Testing six biological reasoning models via input perturbation and linear probing reveals that BioReason and BioReason-Pro rely minimally on biological foundation model representations. For DNA, protein, and single-cell tasks, performance remains largely unchanged even when shuffling sequences or introducing evidence conflicts between representations and text.