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In order to overcome these shortcomings, a method has been developed for predicting cytoplasm-associated lncRNAs in 15 human cell-lines, identifying which lncRNAs are more abundant in the cytoplasm compared to the nucleus. All models in this study were trained using five-fold cross validation and tested on an validation dataset. Initially, we developed machine and deep learning based models using traditional features like composition and correlation. Using composition and correlation based features, machine learning algorithms achieved an average AUC of 0.7049 and 0.7089, respectively for 15 cell-lines. Secondly, we developed machine based models developed using embedding features obtained from the large language model DNABERT-2. The average AUC for all the cell-lines achieved by this approach was 0.665. Subsequently, we also fine-tuned DNABERT-2 on our training dataset and evaluated the fine-tuned DNABERT-2 model on the validation dataset. The fine-tuned DNABERT-2 model achieved an average AUC of 0.6336. Correlation-based features combined with ML algorithms outperform LLM-based models, in the case of predicting differential lncRNA localization. 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