Results on 300 ClinVar missense variants classified after 8 August, with AlphaMissense for comparison
Thank you for releasing Carbon-X and the GGUF files. We ran the Q8_0 GGUF (llama.cpp b11946, the file's default sampling, thinking off, one answer per variant) on ClinVar single-base variants that had no benign or pathogenic classification in the 8 August 2026 release and had one in the 5 September, 28 September or 19 October release, scored against their 25 October classification. Each message was built like the carbon-dna skill's ask command, with gene, coordinates and strand in the context line and 8,192-base hg38 windows in gene orientation.
On 300 missense variants (150 pathogenic, 150 benign), Carbon-X's balanced accuracy was 0.69. Your GGUF page reports 69.1% on FrontierVEP for this file, a different set of variants. The precomputed AlphaMissense scores, cut at 0.5, reached 0.87 on the same 300. On 120 other variant types (nonsense, splice site, synonymous, intronic, UTR), Carbon-X scored 0.89. Classification guidance lets submitters use scores like AlphaMissense as evidence, which could favour it; we did not audit the evidence behind these submissions.
Two smaller things we noticed:
- Three answers ended with
Answer: likely benign(all three on benign variants). A parser that accepts onlybenignorpathogenicrejects them. - The main model card still says llama.cpp and other GGUF runtimes are not supported, while the GGUF page says b11742 and later tokenize exactly like the Python tokenizer.
The variant list (ClinVar Variation IDs, labels, AlphaMissense scores, SHA-256 of each window), every raw answer with the SHA-256 of the message we sent, and the scripts are here: https://github.com/CyberNative-AI/.github/tree/main/notes/carbon-x-alphamissense-clinvar
We have not measured how much our prompt or runtime changes the answers. If the FrontierVEP prompt places the variant or orients the window differently, we would be glad to know and to rerun with it.
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Thanks for running this! Our FrontierVEP prompts differ from yours: there's no gene, coordinates or strand, only the 8,192-base window, the variant's 1-based position in it, and the ref/alt alleles. Answers are requested as benign or pathogenic, which avoids "likely benign". We'll release the dataset soon. template is in vepqa.py (dataset HuggingFaceBio/DNAIntelligenceIndex, config frontier_vep).
For reference, the actual FrontierVEP prompt, with the DNA left out:
Given a human single-nucleotide variant and its surrounding reference DNA sequence, classify the variant as either benign or pathogenic.
The variant is at position 4427 in the reference sequence, using 1-based indexing. At this position, the reference allele C is changed to the alternate allele T.
Reference DNA sequence:
[…8,192 bp DNA sequence…]
Provide your final answer enclosed in XML tags exactly as:
<answer>TYPE</answer>
where TYPE is exactly one of:
* benign
* pathogenic
The llama.cpp note on the model card is fixed. Thanks