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These regulatory elements \u201cenhance\u201d specific gene programs and have been shown to operate in diverse networks that are distinct across cell states of the same organism. Attempts to characterize and predict enhancers have typically focused on leveraging information-dense DNA sequence in parallel with epigenomic assays. We examined the viability of enhancer prediction using only a minimal set of epigenomic datasets without direct DNA information.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>We demonstrate that chromatin datasets are sufficient to identify enhancers genome-wide with high accuracy. By training networks leveraging data from multiple cell types simultaneously, we generated a cell-type invariant enhancer prediction platform that utilized only the patterns of protein binding for inference. We also showed the utility of swarm-based adversarial attacks [adversarial particle swarm optimization (APSO)] to deconvolute trained genomic neural networks for the first time. 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