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Computational approaches have attracted much attention to quickly predict highly potential RBP binding sites on circRNAs using the sequence or structure statistical binding knowledge. Deep learning is one of the popular learning models in this area but usually requires a lot of labeled training data. It would perform unsatisfactorily for the less characterized RBPs with a limited number of known target circRNAs. How to improve the prediction performance for such small-size labeled characterized RBPs is a challenging task for deep learning\u2013based models. In this study, we propose an RBP-specific method iDeepC for predicting RBP binding sites on circRNAs from sequences. It adopts a Siamese neural network consisting of a lightweight attention module and a metric module. We have found that Siamese neural network effectively enhances the network capability of capturing mutual information between circRNAs with pairwise metric learning. To further deal with the small-sample size problem, we have performed the pretraining using available labeled data from other RBPs and also demonstrate the efficacy of this transfer-learning pipeline. We comprehensively evaluated iDeepC on the benchmark datasets of RBP-binding circRNAs, and the results suggest iDeepC achieving promising results on the poorly characterized RBPs. 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