ICLR 2026 Past Large language modelsAI for science

ICLR 2026 Workshop on Foundation Models for Science: Real-World Impact and Science-First Design

ICLR 2026 Workshop FM4Science

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Accepted papers (78)

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  1. (Sparse) Attention to the Details: Preserving Spectral Fidelity in ML-based Weather Forecasting Models

    Maksim Zhdanov, Ana Lucic, Max Welling, Jan-Willem van de Meent · PDF
  2. [Short] Real-Time Explanations for Tabular Foundation Models

    Luan Borges Teodoro Reis Sena, Francisco Galuppo Azevedo · PDF
  3. A Systematic Study of Behavioral Cloning for Scientific Data Annotation

    Ishaan Singh Chandok, Core Francisco Park · PDF
  4. Accurate Tokenization of 3D Small Organic Molecules

    Filya Geikyan, Hrant Khachatrian · PDF
  5. Agentic Discovery of Multi-Channel Bioacoustic Association Algorithms

    Paramjyoti Mohapatra, Irina Tolkova, Akanksha Sarkar, Atharva Sehgal, Daniel P. Salisbury, Andrew L. Von Duyke, Léa Bouffaut, Holger Klinck, Jennifer J. Sun · PDF
  6. AI Driven Discovery of Bio Ecological Mediation in Cascading Heatwave Risks

    Yiquan Wang, Tin-Yeh Huang, Qingyun Gao, Yuhan Chang, Jialin Zhang · PDF
  7. Augmenting representations with scientific papers

    Nicolò Oreste Pinciroli Vago, Rocco Di Tella, Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro, Michael J. Smith, Cecilia Garraffo, Juan Rafael Martínez-Galarza · PDF
  8. Back to BERT in 2026: ModernGENA as a Strong, Efficient Baseline for DNA Foundation Models

    Alena Aspidova, Yuri Kuratov, Artem Shadskiy, Mikhail Burtsev, Veniamin Fishman · PDF
  9. Benchmarking foundation models for unsupervised discovery in large multimodal astrophysical datasets

    Maxime Ronceray, Marc Huertas-Company, Alexandre Chanson, Malgorzata Siudek, Anna Preto, Michael J. Smith, J. Zoubian, Clara Bonini · PDF
  10. Beyond Independent Frames: Latent Attention Masked Autoencoders for Multi-View Echocardiography

    Simon Böhi, Irene Cannistraci, Sergio Muñoz Gonzalez, Moritz Vandenhirtz, Sonia Laguna, Samuel Ruiperez-Campillo, Max Krähenmann, Andrea Agostini, Ece Ozkan, Thomas M. Sutter, Julia E Vogt · PDF
  11. Built-in Safeguards for Auto-regressive Protein Foundation Models through Self-play

    Xiaoyi Fu, Yang Xu, King L. CHOW, Yuan Yao · PDF
  12. CausalEvolve: Towards Open-Ended Discovery with Causal Scratchpad

    Yongqiang Chen, Chenxi Liu, Zhenhao Chen, Tongliang Liu, Bo Han, Kun Zhang · PDF
  13. CausalGame: Benchmarking Causal Thinking of LLM Agents in Games

    Zhenhao Chen, Yongqiang Chen, Chenxi Liu, Junchi Yu, Xiangchen Song, Zijian Li, Jialin Li, Philip Torr, Bo Han, Kun Zhang · PDF
  14. Constructing Machine-Precision Neural Networks with Quasi-Interpolants

    Catherine Deng, Junmiao Hu, Milan Rohatgi, Jerry Weihong Liu, Christopher Re · PDF
  15. Darwin-7B: A Multi-Omic Foundation Model for the Human Gut Microbiome\\via Sparsified Quality-Aware Tokenization

    Arvid E. Gollwitzer, David de Gruijl · PDF
  16. Deep Learning for BioImaging: What Are We Learning?

    Ivan Svatko, Maxime Sanchez, Ihab Bendidi, Gilles Cottrell, Auguste Genovesio · PDF
  17. Does Aurora Encode Atmospheric Structure? Latent Regime Analysis and Attribution

    Emma Kasteleyn, Ana Lucic · PDF
  18. ECLIPSE: A Composable Pipeline for Predicting ecDNA Formation, Evolution, and Therapeutic Vulnerabilities in Cancer

    Bryan Cheng, Jasper Zhang · PDF
  19. Effective Biological Representation Learning by Masking Gene Expression

    Kian Kenyon-Dean, Ihab Bendidi, Alina Selega, Jordan M. Sorokin, Luca Bertinetto, David Errington, Oren Kraus, Hayley Donnella · PDF
  20. Efficient Tail-Aware Generative Optimization via Flow Model Fine-Tuning

    Zifan Wang, Riccardo De Santi, Xiaoyu Mo, Michael M. Zavlanos, Andreas Krause, Karl Henrik Johansson · PDF
  21. Evaluating Expert Specialization in Mixture-of-Experts Antibody Language Models

    Sarah M. Burbach, Simone Spandau, Jonathan Hurtado, Bryan Briney · PDF
  22. EVIDENCE-GATED SCIENTIFIC QA WITH EXPLICIT ABSTENTION AND PAGE-LEVEL PROVENANCE

    Bruno Leonardo Santos Menezes, Fábio Porto · PDF
  23. EvoFlows: Evolutionary Edit-Based Flow-Matching for Protein Engineering

    Shayan Aziznejad, Eli Bixby, Nicolas Deutschmann, Constance Ferragu, Jonathan D. Ziegler · PDF
  24. FINGERS-7B: A Multi-Omic Foundation Model for Precision Biomarker Discovery

    Arvid E. Gollwitzer, Adrián Noriega de la Colina, Deepak A. Subramanian, Giovanni Traverso · PDF
  25. FIRE: Multi-fidelity Regression with Distribution-conditioned In-context Learning using Tabular Foundation Models

    Rosen Ting-Ying Yu, Nicholas Sung, Faez Ahmed · PDF
  26. FlowMS: Flow Matching for De Novo Structure Elucidation from Mass Spectra

    Jianan Nie, Peng Gao · PDF
  27. Foundation Model for Cardiac Time Series via Masked Latent Attention

    Moritz Vandenhirtz, Samuel Ruiperez-Campillo, Sonia Laguna, Simon Böhi, Irene Cannistraci, Andrea Agostini, Ece Ozkan, Thomas M. Sutter, Julia E Vogt · PDF
  28. Foundation Models as Physical Priors: Decoupling Geometric Reasoning from Small-Molecule Solubility Prediction

    Jonathan Broadbent, Michael Bailey, Mingxuan Li, Abhishek Paul, Louis de Lescure, Paul Chauvin, Lorenzo Kogler Anele, Yasser Jangjou, Sven Jager · PDF
  29. Foundation models for agricultural sciences - Challenges and opportunities

    Ioannis N. Athanasiadis · PDF
  30. FragmentFlow: Scalable Transition State Generation for Large Molecules

    Ron Shprints, Peter Holderrieth, Juno Nam, Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli, Tommi Jaakkola · PDF
  31. From Weather to Weathering: Foundation Models for Carbon Removal via Rock Weathering

    Sasankh Munukutla, Felipe Oviedo, Kenji Takeda · PDF
  32. Full-length mRNA Design with Reward-Guided Masked Diffusion Model Fine-Tuning

    Sawan Patel, Sophia Tang, Pranam Chatterjee, Sherwood Yao · PDF
  33. GeoPT: Scaling Physics Simulation via Lifted Geometric Pre-Training

    Haixu Wu, Minghao Guo, Zongyi Li, Zhiyang Dou, Mingsheng Long, Kaiming He, Wojciech Matusik · PDF
  34. Hierarchy-Guided Multimodal Representation Learning for Taxonomic Inference

    Sk Miraj Ahmed, Xi Yu, Yunqi Li, Yuewei Lin, Wei Xu · PDF
  35. Higher-order grammar representations for molecular generation and learning

    Yiming Huang, Yujie Zeng, Vijay Prakash Dwivedi, Simone Foti, Jianmin Wang, Tolga Birdal · PDF
  36. Information-Theoretic Requirements for Gradient-Based Task Affinity Estimation in Multi-Task Learning

    Bryan Cheng, Jasper Zhang · PDF
  37. Kraus Constrained Sequence Learning For Quantum Trajectories from Continuous Measurement

    Priyanshi Singh, Krishna Bhatia · PDF
  38. Language-Enhanced Representation Learning for Single-Cell Transcriptomics

    Jiaqi Yang, Zhiyuan Liu, Yaorui Shi, Qingchuan Zhang, Changhao Nai, Junfeng Fang, Yahui Long, Yang Zhang, Xiang Wang · PDF
  39. Learning Enhanced Protein Representations from Molecular Dynamics Trajectories via Temporal GNNs

    Sajal Chaurasia, Pengkang Guo, Bruno Correia, Pierre Vandergheynst · PDF
  40. Learning What's Real: Disentangling Signal and Measurement Artifacts in Multi-Sensor Data, with Applications to Astrophysics

    Pablo Mercader-Perez, Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro, Daniel Muthukrishna, Jeroen Audenaert, V Ashley Villar, David W Hogg, Marc Huertas-Company, William T. Freeman · PDF
  41. LUMINA: Foundation Models for Topology Transferable ACOPF

    Yijiang Li, Zeeshan Memon, Hongwei Jin, Stefano Fenu, Keunju Song, Sunash B Sharma, Parfait Gasana, Hongseok Kim, Liang Zhao, Kibaek Kim · PDF
  42. LunarFM: a multimodal representation of the Moon's surface

    Jakob Gawlikowski, Marc Girona-Mata, Sumit Goski, Gautier Bardi de Fourtou, Abigail Calzada-Diaz, Sylvester Kaczmarek, Raúl Ramos-Pollán · PDF
  43. MEG-XL: Data-Efficient Brain-to-Text via Long-Context Pre-Training

    Dulhan Jayalath, Oiwi Parker Jones · PDF
  44. MMAI Gym for Science: Training Liquid Foundation Models for Drug Discovery

    Maksim Kuznetsov, Zulfat Miftahutdinov, Rim Shayakhmetov, Mikolaj Mizera, Roman Schutski, Bogdan Zagribelnyy, Ivan Ilin, Nikita Bondarev, Mihir Bafna, Kaeli Kaymak-Loveless, Thomas MacDougall, Mathieu Reymond, Eugene Babin, Maxim Malkov, Mathias Lechner, Ramin Hasani, Alexander Amini, Vladimir Aladinskiy, Alex Aliper, Alex Zhavoronkov · PDF
  45. MOOSE: Targeted Small Molecule Generation via Multi-Objective-Guided Discrete Diffusion

    Elizabeth H Mahood, William Pattie, Ethan M. Jones, Sophia Vincoff, Adi Mashiach, Pranam Chatterjee · PDF
  46. Multimodal Datasets with Controllable Mutual Information

    Raheem K Hashmani, Garrett W. Merz, Helen Qu, Mariel Pettee, Kyle Cranmer · PDF
  47. Neural Scaling Laws for Boosted Jet Tagging

    Matthias Vigl, Nicole Hartman, Michael Kagan, Lukas Heinrich · PDF
  48. NeuroLoom: Modeling Cortical Microcircuits with Spiking Neural Networks

    Sunkalp Chandra, Seungyong Yang, Gautham Korrapati, Saketh Satti, Dheeraj Chintapalli, Jainish H. Patel · PDF
  49. On Neural Scaling Laws for Weather Emulation through Continual Training

    Shashank Subramanian, Alexander Kiefer, Arnur Nigmetov, Amir Gholami, Dmitriy Morozov, Michael W. Mahoney · PDF
  50. Optimizing Materials With CliqueFlowmer

    Jakub Grudzien Kuba, Benjamin Kurt Miller, Sergey Levine, Pieter Abbeel · PDF
  51. PepRePs: Peptide-Retargeted Phosphatases via Generative Language Models

    Lauren Hong, Tai-Chen Ho, Yi-Shiuan Tseng, Sophia Vincoff, Tong Chen, Pohan chen, Pranam Chatterjee · PDF
  52. Position: Science is Collaborative—LLM for Science Should Be Too

    Terry Jingchen Zhang, Wenyuan Jiang, David Guzman Piedrahita, Yongjin Yang, Sirui Lu, Bernhard Schölkopf, Zhijing Jin · PDF
  53. Predicting New Concept--Object Associations in Astronomy by Mining the Literature

    Jinchu Li, Yuan-Sen Ting, Alberto Accomazzi, Tirthankar Ghosal, Nesar Soorve Ramachandra · PDF
  54. Rethinking Perturbation Prediction Baselines

    Junwei Sun, Ouyang Zhu, Yiqun T. Chen · PDF
  55. SaDiT: Efficient Protein Backbone Design via Latent Structural Tokenization and Diffusion Transformers

    Shentong Mo, Lanqing Li · PDF
  56. SciPredict: Can LLMs Predict the Outcomes of Scientific Experiments in Natural Sciences?

    Udari Madhushani Sehwag, Elaine Lau, Haniyeh Ehsani Oskouie, Shayan Shabihi, Erich Liang, Andrea Sarai Echeverria Toledo, Guillermo A. Mangialardi, Sergio Fonrouge, Ed-Yeremai Hernandez-Cardona, Paula Vergara, Utkarsh Tyagi, Chen Bo Calvin Zhang, Pavi Bhatter, Nicholas E. Johnson, Furong Huang, Ernesto Gabriel Hernández Montoya, Bing Liu · PDF
  57. Self-Attention for Quantum Entanglement Prediction

    Anuj Gore, Roopayan Ghosh, Dylan Lewis, Sougato Bose · PDF
  58. SENDAI: A Hierarchical Sparse-measurement, EfficieNt Data AssImilation Framework

    Xingyue Zhang, Yuxuan Bao, Mars Liyao Gao, J. Nathan Kutz · PDF
  59. Single-Position Intervention Fails: Distributed Output Templates Drive In-Context Learning

    Bryan Cheng, Jasper Zhang · PDF
  60. SNOOPPI: Sequence-Normalized Database of On- and Off-Target Protein-Protein Interactions

    Sophia Vincoff, Pranam Chatterjee · PDF
  61. Sparse Probes, Murky Physics: Interpretability Challenges in a Foundation Model for Continuum Dynamics

    Katherine A. Rosenfeld, Maike Sonnewald · PDF
  62. ST-Align: Multi-Scale Image-Gene Foundation Modeling for Spatial Transcriptomics via Spot-Niche Alignment

    Yuxiang Lin, Ling Luo, Ying Chen, Xushi Zhang, Zihui Wang, Rongshan Yu · PDF
  63. Surrogate-Assisted Pedestrian Protection Design via a Foundation Model–Orchestrated Workflow

    Osamu Ito, Akihiko Katagiri, Yoshikazu Nakagawa, Shin Saeki, Jun Shiraishi, Masato Sasaki · PDF
  64. Symmetry-Aware Entropy Reinforcement Learning for Chaos Accurate Holographic Duals in NISQ Hardware

    Leonidas Tam · PDF
  65. Test-Time Tuned Language Models Enable End-to-end De Novo Molecular Structure Generation from MS/MS Spectra

    Laura Mismetti, Marvin Alberts, Andreas Krause, Mara Graziani · PDF
  66. The Reliability Gap in Agentic Evidence Verification for Materials Science

    Albert Gong, James J. Kim, Anmol Kabra, Aaditya Panigrahi, Jiashuo Wang, Arjun B. Mulchandani, Michael Freeman, Fatmagul Katmer, Joshua Peters Wakefield, Linxi Zhao, Chao Wan, Akanksha Sarkar, Yoav Artzi, Leslie M Schoop, John Thickstun, Kilian Q Weinberger, Eun-Ah Kim, Peter I. Frazier, Jennifer J. Sun · PDF
  67. The Right Inductive Bias for the Job: Dependency-Aware Masking for Scientific Foundation Models

    Alon Hacohen, Joseph Charles Bingham, Binyamin Perets, Dvir Aran · PDF
  68. Towards Foundation Models for Quantum Unitary Synthesis via Zero-Shot MDL

    Lukas Theißinger, Thore Gerlach, David Berghaus, Christian Bauckhage · PDF
  69. Towards Understanding Hybrid Protein Language Model Design: A Systematic Ablation and Interpretability Study

    Yash Semlani, Nauman Javed, Frederick Hoffman, Krithik Ramesh · PDF
  70. Two-Stage Ligand-Protein Complex Sequence Design with L-Caliby

    Jinho Kim, Richard W. Shuai, Po-Ssu Huang · PDF
  71. Understanding The Limits Of Text-Only Molecular Reasoning: A Case Study In Synthetic Chain-Of-Thought Supervision

    Deepa Mal Korani, Mohammad Madani, Josefa Lia Stoisser, Marc Boubnovski Martell, Lawrence Phillips, Kristine Deibler · PDF
  72. Unified Cross-Scale 3D Generation and Understanding via Autoregressive Modeling

    Shuqi Lu, Haowei Lin, Lin Yao, Zhifeng Gao, Xiaohong Ji, Yitao Liang, Weinan E, Linfeng Zhang, Guolin Ke · PDF
  73. Vehicle Surface Pressure Prediction from 2D Sketches via a Pre-Trained Diffusion Model

    Shunya Nakamura · PDF
  74. Want to train KANS at scale? Now UKAN!

    Alireza Moradzadeh, Srimukh Prasad Veccham, Lukasz Wawrzyniak, Miles Macklin, Saee Gopal Paliwal · PDF
  75. When Does Context Help? A Systematic Study of Target-Conditional Molecular Property Prediction

    Bryan Cheng, Jasper Zhang · PDF
  76. When Protein Dynamics Matter: Integrating Molecular Dynamics into Protein Foundation Models

    Reem Aboelsoud, Javad Kasravi, Stefan Kesselheim, Alina Bazarova · PDF
  77. WIND: Weather Inverse Diffusion for Zero-Shot Atmospheric Modeling

    Andreas Fürst, Michael Aich, Florian Sestak, Carlos Ruiz-Gonzalez, Niklas Boers, Johannes Brandstetter · PDF
  78. Zatom-1: A Multimodal Flow Foundation Model for 3D Molecules and Materials

    Alex Morehead, Miruna Cretu, Antonia Panescu, Rishabh Anand, Maurice Weiler, Ty Perez, Samuel M Blau, Steven Farrell, Wahid Bhimji, Anubhav Jain, Hrushikesh Sahasrabuddhe, Pietro Lio, Tommi Jaakkola, Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli, Rex Ying, N. Benjamin Erichson, Michael W. Mahoney · PDF