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However, current methods are limited by RNA\u2019s structural complexity as well as flexibility, with experimental techniques being costly and computational approaches struggling to capture the intricate sequence dependencies needed for accurate predictions. To address these challenges, we introduce DeepRNA-Twist, a novel deep learning framework designed to predict RNA torsion and pseudo-torsion angles directly from sequence. DeepRNA-Twist utilizes RNA language model embeddings, which provides rich, context-aware feature representations of RNA sequences. Additionally, it introduces 2A3IDC module (Attention Augmented Inception Inside Inception with Dilated CNN), combining inception networks with dilated convolutions and multi-head attention mechanism. The dilated convolutions capture long-range dependencies in the sequence without requiring a large number of parameters, while the multi-head attention mechanism enhances the model\u2019s ability to focus on both local and global structural features simultaneously. DeepRNA-Twist was rigorously evaluated on benchmark datasets, including RNA-Puzzles, CASP-RNA, and SPOT-RNA-1D, and demonstrated significant improvements over existing methods, achieving state-of-the-art accuracy. 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