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Studies have shown that miRNAs are stable in the extracellular environment that mediates cell-to-cell communication and are located in the intracellular region that responds to cellular stress and environmental stimuli. Though in situ detection techniques of miRNAs have made great contributions to the study of the localization and distribution of miRNAs, miRNA subcellular localization and their role are still in progress. Recently, some machine learning-based algorithms have been designed for miRNA subcellular location prediction, but their performance is still far from satisfactory. Here, we present a new data partitioning strategy that categorizes functionally similar locations for the precise and instructive prediction of miRNA subcellular location in Homo sapiens. To characterize the localization signals, we adopted one-hot encoding with post padding to represent the whole miRNA sequences, and proposed a deep bidirectional long short-term memory with the multi-head self-attention algorithm to model. The algorithm showed high selectivity in distinguishing extracellular miRNAs from intracellular miRNAs. Moreover, a series of motif analyses were performed to explore the mechanism of miRNA subcellular localization. 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