Accepted Papers


A Multi-Modal Foundation Model Across Species for Interpreting Gene Functions
Tianyu Liu
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Token-Level Guided Discrete Diffusion for Membrane Protein Design
Shrey Goel, Peregrine Michael Schray, Yinuo Zhang, Sophia Vincoff, Huong T. Kratochvil, Pranam Chatterjee
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GLM-Prior: A Genomic Language Model for Sequence-Derived Prior Knowledge in GRN Inference
Claudia Skok Gibbs, Angelica Chen, Richard Bonneau, Kyunghyun Cho
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Explainable Insulin Pump Control with LLM Controllers for Type 1 Diabetes
Maya Sarkar
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LINKER: Learning Interactions Between Functional Groups and Residues With Chemical Knowledge-Enhanced Reasoning and Explainability
PhucPhamHuyThien, Viet Thanh Duy Nguyen, Truong-Son Hy
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Hyperbolic Multimodal Representation Learning for Biological Taxonomies
ZeMing Gong, Chuanqi Tang, Xiaoliang Huo, Nicholas Pellegrino, Austin Wang, Graham W. Taylor, Angel X Chang, Scott C. Lowe, Joakim Bruslund Haurum
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From Base Pairs to Functions: Rich RNA Representations via Multimodal Language Modeling
Joel Bonnie, Tin Vlašić, Mile Sikic
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Multi-Modal Foundation Models for Computational Pathology: A Survey
Dong Li, Guihong Wan, Xintao Wu, Xinyu Wu, Xiaohui Chen, Yi He, Zhong Chen, Ninghui Hao, Chen Zhao
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BioCLIP 2: Emergent Properties from Scaling Hierarchical Contrastive Learning
Jianyang Gu, Samuel Stevens, Elizabeth G Campolongo, Matthew J Thompson, Net Zhang, Jiaman Wu, Andrei Kopanev, Zheda Mai, Alexander E. White, James Balhoff, Wasla Dahdul, Daniel Rubenstein, Hilmar Lapp, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Wei-Lun Chao, Yu Su
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The Exposome Interpreter: A Multi-Modal Framework for Personalized Autoimmune Care
KRITIKA CHUGH
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A Comparative Study of Semi-supervised Deep Anomaly Detection and LLMs for Monitoring Patients with Severe Health Status Undergoing Radiotherapy
Yang Yan, Xinglei Shen, Ronald Chen, Hao Gao, Chen Zhao, Guihong Wan, Yi He, Zhong Chen
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CHEMSETS: How Capable Are Chemistry LLMs?
Christoph Bartmann, Mykyta Ielanskyi, Johannes Schimunek, Philipp Seidl, Günter Klambauer, Sohvi Luukkonen
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MoAgent: A Hypothesis-Driven Multi-Agent Framework for Drug Mechanism of Action Discovery
Jun Hyeong Kim, Seokhyun Moon, Seonghwan Kim, Junhyeok Jeon, Taein Kim, Jisu Seo, Songmi Kim, Woo Youn Kim
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Harnessing biomedical foundation models for genomic feature engineering to investigate patient drug response
Laura-Jayne Gardiner, Jennifer Kelly, Stephen Checkley, Karen Bingham, Graeme Macluskie, David Bunton
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Not all representations are equal: Comparing protein language models for antibody thermostability prediction
Rudrasis Chakraborty, Jacob Pettit, Mary S Silva, Emily Alipio Lyon, Anastassya Davis, Emilia Solomon, Joseph Sanchez, Colin Singer Kruse, Corey Quackenbush, Yuliya Kunde, Antonietta M. Lillo, Tavish Malcolm McDonald, T.S. Jayram, Barry Y. Chen, Daniel faissol, Ana Paula De Oliveira Sales
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BiDoRA: Bi-level Optimization-Based Weight-Decomposed Low-Rank Adaptation for Overfitting-Resilient Fine-Tuning of Biological Foundation Models
Peijia Qin, Ruiyi Zhang, Pengtao Xie
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A multi-domain EHR foundation model for predicting Hepatitis B liver disease: a clinical perspective
Caroline V Weis, Max Horn, Max F Burg, Filippo Grazioli, Adam Kania, Giovanni Visona, Jonathan Golob, Patrick Schwab
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Learning to Align Molecules and Proteins: A Geometry-Aware Approach to Binding Affinity
Mohammadsaleh Refahi, Bahrad A. Sokhansanj, James R. Brown, Gail Rosen
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Horizon-Aware Vision–Language Forecasting of Diabetic Retinopathy with Text Prototypes
Gongyu Zhang, YT, Zengxiang Li, Timothy L Jackson, Christos Bergeles
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LLM-Integrated Representative Path Selection for Context-Aware Drug Repurposing on Biomedical Knowledge Graphs
Haerin Song, Dongmin Bang, Bonil Koo, Sun Kim, Sangseon Lee
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DeepSpot2Cell: Predicting Virtual Single-Cell Spatial Transcriptomics from H&E images using Spot-Level Supervision
Kalin Nonchev, Glib Manaiev, Viktor Koelzer, Gunnar Ratsch
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Boundary Guidance for Efficient 3D CT Vision–Language Reasoning
Soo Yong Kim
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Improved Therapeutic Antibody Reformatting through Multimodal Machine Learning
Jiayi Xin, Aniruddh Raghu, Nick Bhattacharya, Adam Carr, Melanie Montgomery, Hunter Elliott
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GRAM-DTI: Adaptive Multimodal Representation Learning for Drug–Target Interaction Prediction
Feng Jiang, Amina Mollaysa, Hehuan Ma, Tommaso Mansi, Junzhou Huang, Mangal Prakash, Rui Liao
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Revealing bias in antibody language models through systematic training data processing with OAS-explore
Wiona Sophie Glänzer, Sai T. Reddy, Alexander Yermanos
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Motif-aware Tokenization of the Genome: Towards Interpretable Modeling of Gene Regulation
Parmida Davarmanesh, Adityanarayanan Radhakrishnan, Ashia C. Wilson, Ruochi Zhang, Jimin Tan, Joshua Pereira, Bo Xia
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Challenges in Leveraging Functional Information to Evaluate Predicted Protein-Ligand Interactions
Joseph G. Wakim, Jose Manuel Marti, Jonathan E Allen, Adam T. Zemla
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g-DPO: Scalable Preference Optimization for Protein Language Models
Constance Ferragu, Cradle ML Team
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Position: Adjacent Technologies Are the Key Enablers of Scalable and Safe Clinical MLLM Deployment
Azmine Toushik Wasi, Md. Iqramul Hoque
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FlashRNA: an efficient model for regulatory genomics
Andrew J Jung, ALICE J. GAO, Leo J Lee, Brendan Frey
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Decoding Histone Modification Signatures of Non-Coding RNAs via Foundation Models
Nishant Sharma, Mohammad Atif Quamar, Pengtao Xie
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Beyond Labels: Explanatory Collapse due to Instruction Tuning in Protein LLMs
Yining Yang, Ruihong Huang, Yang Shen
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Learning monosemantic features in multitask DNA regulatory sequence models via sparse autoencoder decomposition
Anya Korsakova, David Roy Kelley
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Benchmarking Biomolecular Foundation Models for Cross-Modal Genomics-Proteomics
Joseph G. Wakim, Vinayak Gupta, Jose Manuel Marti, Jonathan E Allen, Brian R. Bartoldson, Bhavya Kailkhura
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Mechanistic Interpretability of Semantic Abstraction in Biomedical Texts
Nikhil Gourisetty, Snata Mohanty, Vishnu Srinivas, Soumil Jain, Sunith Vallabhaneni, Kevin Zhu, Sunishchal Dev
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Quantifying the Role of OpenFold Components in Protein Structure Prediction
Tyler L. Hayes, Giri P Krishnan
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Uncertainty-Guided Model Selection for Tabular Foundation Models in Biomolecule Efficacy Prediction
Jie Li, Andrew McCarthy, Zhizhuo Zhang
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LLMGEN: Evolving Interpretable Surrogate Programs for Genomics with LLMs
Chandana Rajesh, Wilson Ho, Ziqi Tang, Peter K Koo, Thomas Pierrot
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CellSpliceNet: Explainable Multimodal Transformers for Splicing in C. elegans Neurons
Arman Afrasiyabi, Jake Kovalic, Chen Liu, Egbert Castro, Alexis Weinreb, Erdem Varol, David M. Miller III, Marc Hammarlund, Smita Krishnaswamy
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Multimodal Survival Analysis with Locally Deployable Large Language Models
Moritz Gögl, Peter Watkinson, Christopher Yau
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BaggingCPP: An Inductive PU-Learning Framework for Discovering Cell-Penetrating Peptides
Omri Yakir, Chieh Chang, Maayan Gal, Jerome Tubiana
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MolVision: Molecular Property Prediction with Vision Language Models
Deepan Adak, Yogesh S Rawat, Shruti Vyas
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Predicting and generating antibiotics against future pathogens with ApexOracle
Tianang Leng, Fangping Wan, Marcelo Der Torossian Torres, Cesar de la Fuente-Nunez
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A Multi-Modal Deep Learning Model for Drug Potency Prediction: Leveraging Features from Physics-Based Docking and Advanced Co-Folding Methods
Claire Suen, BoRam Lee, Matthew Adrian, Jeffrey Zhou, Hyeyun Jung, David He, Gean Hu, Kelly Hui, Aditi Jain, Qamil Mirza Bin Abdullah, Milena Novakovic, Joseph Park, Winston Qian, Aarav Shah, Xina Wang, Yunsie Chung, Alan C Cheng
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Thin Bridges for Drug Text Alignment: Lightweight Contrastive Learning for Target Specific Drug Retrieval
Mallikarjuna Tupakula
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Aligning Protein Language Models to Stability Preferences using 1M+ Experimental Mutant Effects
Niksa Praljak, Sung-Won Hwang, Cheng-Yen Lin, Allen Po-Chih Liu, Andrew Ferguson
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Multitask Asynchronous Bidirectional Multimodal Agent for Personalized Treatment Companions
Muhamad Iqbal Januadi Putra, Raka Admiral Abdurrahman, Vincent Alexander
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Disentangling Protein Family Signals in Protein Language Models: Composition or Motifs?
Sohel Bashar, M Saifur Rahman
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Multimodal Alignment Reveals Interpretable Gene–Morphology Links in Perineuronal Net Pathology
Wenjun Liu, Saeed Hassanpour
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Learning In-Silico Maps of Transcription Factor Binding and Cooperativity interactions
Ruben Solozabal, Albert Baichorov, Tamir Avioz, Le Song, Ariel Afek, Martin Takáč
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HIP-HOP: Invariants for 2D Tilings with Biomedical Case Study
Madhava Gaikwad, Ashwini Ramchandra Doke
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Predicting Influenza Reassortment Potential Using Foundation Models and Genetic Algorithms for Pandemic Preparedness
Seeraja Konnur
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Predicting cellular responses to perturbation across diverse contexts with State
Abhinav Adduri, Dhruv Gautam, Beatrice Bevilacqua, Alishba Imran, Rohan Shah, Mohsen Naghipourfar, Noam Teyssier, Rajesh Ilango, Sanjay Nagaraj, Chiara Ricci-Tam, Chris Carpenter, Vishvak Subramanyam, Aidan Winters, Mingze Dong, Sravya Tirukkovalur, Jeremy Sullivan, Brian Plosky, Basak Eraslan, Nicholas D. Youngblut, Jure Leskovec, Luke A. Gilbert, Silvana Konermann, Patrick D Hsu, Alexander Dobin, Dave P. Burke, Hani Goodarzi, Yusuf H Roohani
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