Dynamically Weighted Pairwise Cross-Attention Driven Feature Fusion in Hybrid Convolutional Neural Networks for Classification of COVID-19 Variants
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The extensive global impact of coronavirus is evident, causing widespread disruption to public health and economies around the world. This disease is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome virus. Accurate detection helps control the virus spread, reduces death rates, and lessens the overall impact on communities. Several significant research gaps exist in handling unbalanced datasets and achieving high accuracy with properly balanced data. These issues pose substantial challenges to the development of robust and reliable classification models. Unbalanced datasets, where certain classes are overrepresented, can bias models towards dominant classes, leading to suboptimal performance for underrepresented strains. To address these gaps, this paper introduces a novel and effective method to classify the three dominant variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome. Alpha, Delta, and Omicron. Here, we utilize a balanced dataset of 9000 images and we propose an innovative series of Dynamically Weighted Pairwise Cross-Attention feature fusion models designed to effectively integrate complementary genomic features, delivering robust and accurate performance across diverse genomic classification tasks. To achieve this, we first utilize Genomic Image Processing techniques, such as Frequency Chaos Game Representation and Markov Transition Field, to transform genomic sequences into informative visual representations, enabling more effective feature extraction and fusion. Then the resultant images are used to train our series of models. Our enhanced models outperform state-of-the-art results by achieving a remarkable accuracy of 99.62%.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".