ICLR 2026 Past GenomicsGenerative models

Generative AI in Genomics (Gen²): Barriers and Frontiers

Gen² 2026

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Accepted papers (57)

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  1. A Standardized Framework For Evaluating Gene Expression Generative Models

    Andrea Rubbi, Andrea Giuseppe Di Francesco, Mohammad Lotfollahi, Pietro Lio · PDF
  2. Accelerating Scientific Discovery with Autonomous Goal-evolving Agents

    Yuanqi Du, Botao Yu, Tianyu Liu, Tony Shen, Junwu Chen, Jan G. Rittig, Kunyang Sun, Yikun Zhang, Cassandra Masschelein, Yingze Wang, Haorui Wang, Haojun Jia, Chao Zhang, Hongyu Zhao, Martin Ester, Teresa Head-Gordon, Carla P Gomes, Huan Sun, Chenru Duan, Philippe Schwaller, Wengong Jin
  3. Attractome: From Theory to Generative Models for Cancer Dynamics and Control

    Arash Mehrjou · PDF
  4. 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
  5. Benchmarking COX1 Embeddings across Genomic Foundation Models, kmers, and Imbalance-Aware Losses

    Luis Valenzuela, Sebastian Aguilera Madrid, Luis Martí, Nayat Sánchez Pi · PDF
  6. Beyond Edge Prediction: Residual Set Modeling for Combinatorial Gene Regulation

    Maryam Rahimimovassagh, Siddhi Kanta Mishra, Ivan Garibay, Niloofar Yousefi · PDF
  7. BiomedSQL: Text-to-SQL for Scientific Reasoning on Biomedical Knowledge Bases

    Mathew J. Koretsky, Maya Willey, Owen Bianchi, Chelsea X Alvarado, Tanay Nayak, Nicole Kuznetsov, Sungwon Kim, Michael Nalls, Daniel Khashabi, Faraz Faghri · PDF
  8. CausalOmics-10T: An Evolving Foundational Dataset to Enable Causal Modeling of Microbial Ecosystems

    Arvid E. Gollwitzer, David de Gruijl
  9. CellTarNet: Single-Cell Perturbation Prediction using Transformer based Normalizing Flow

    Shiv Shankar · PDF
  10. CONSTRAINED LANGUAGE-GUIDED REFINEMENT FOR ZERO-SHOT SPATIAL ANNOTATION

    Sajib Acharjee Dip, Liqing Zhang · PDF
  11. Contact-Guided 3D Genome Structure Generation of E. coli via Diffusion Transformers

    Mingxin Zhang, Xiaofeng Dai, Yu Yao, Ziqi Yin · PDF
  12. Continuous Diffusion Transformers for Designing Synthetic Regulatory Elements

    Jonathan Liu, Kia Ghods · PDF
  13. D3LM: A Discrete DNA Diffusion Language Model for Bidirectional DNA Understanding and Generation

    Zhao Yang, Hengchang Liu, Chuan Cao, Bing Su · PDF
  14. DALI Learns Rules Generating Spatiotemporal Transcriptomics

    Salil S Bhate, Sandeep Kambhampati, Mehrtash Babadi, Fei Chen, Caroline Uhler · PDF
  15. Deep Learning-Based Prediction of Variant Effects on Chromatin Accessibility During Dynamic Neuronal Activation

    Zicheng Wang, Xin He · PDF
  16. DISCRETE FLOW MATCHING FOR REGULATORY DNA SEQUENCE DESIGN

    Muhammad Hashaam, Maria Poptsova · PDF
  17. Dissecting and Steering Cell Identity in a Single-Cell Foundation Model Using Sparse Autoencoders

    Nicolas Yanovsky, Ariel Chernomoretz · PDF
  18. Distilling Genomic Models for Efficient mRNA Representation Learning via Embedding Matching

    Rasched Haidari, Sam Martin, Maxime Allard · PDF
  19. DREAM-DNA: Controlled Design via Reasoning and Matched-flows for DNA

    Weimin Wu, Jiunhau Chen, Xuefeng Song, Jerry Yao-Chieh Hu, Han Liu · PDF
  20. Effects of Distance Metrics and Scaling on the Perturbation Discrimination Score

    Qiyuan Liu, Qirui Zhang, Jin-Hong Du, Siming Zhao, Jingshu Wang · PDF
  21. ELISA: A Generative AI Agent for Expression Grounded Discovery in Single-Cell Genomics

    Omar Coser · PDF
  22. Enigma: An Efficient Model for Deciphering Regulatory Genomics

    Andrew J Jung, ALICE J. GAO, Vivian Chu, Leo J Lee, Brendan Frey · PDF
  23. From sequence to strength: prediction and design of intrinsic transcription terminators

    Guilherme Engelberto Kundlatsch, Almiro Pires da Silva Neto, Gabriela Barbosa de Paiva, Elibio Leopoldo Rech Filho, Leonardo Tomazeli Duarte, Danielle Biscaro Pedrolli · PDF
  24. Generating and decoding methylated DNA with a Human Epigenetic Foundation Model

    Pouya Niki, Christoforos Nalmpantis, Javkhlan-Ochir Ganbat, Donal Byrne, Husam Babikir, Anjeet Jhutty, Andrey Karailiev, Pooja Kathail, Luca Giacomoni, Francisco M Martín-Zamora, Netanel Loyfer, Khaled Kamal Saab, Hannah Madan, Jonathan C M Wan, Ravi Solanki
  25. Generative Modeling of Spatial Transcriptomics via Gaussian Mixture Flow Matching

    Lisa Schunke, Soroor Hediyeh-zadeh, Sergio Marco Salas, Ali Oğuz Can, Fabian J Theis · PDF
  26. Generative modeling reveals the connection between cellular morphology and gene expression

    Shuo Wen, Ramon Viñas Torné, Johannes Bues, Camille Lambert, Nadia Grenningloh, Timothee Ferrari, Elisa Bugani, Joern Pezoldt, Jillian Love, Wouter Karthaus, Bart Deplancke, Maria Brbic · PDF
  27. Genes Are Not Words: Dependency-Aware Masking for Single-Cell Foundation Models

    Alon Hacohen, Joseph Charles Bingham, Binyamin Perets, Dvir Aran · PDF
  28. Genomic heterogeneity inflates the performance of variant pathogenicity predictions

    Baiyu Lu, Xueshen Liu, Po-Yu Lin, Nadav Brandes · PDF
  29. GPC: Deep generative model of genetic variation data improves imputation accuracy in private populations

    Prateek Anand, Anji Liu, Meihua Dang, Boyang Fu, Xinzhu Wei, Guy Van den Broeck, Sriram Sankararaman · PDF
  30. Graph Attention Network generates Super-resolution Spatial Transcriptomic data

    Luis Alonso, Idoia Ochoa, Mikel Hernaez · PDF
  31. Hierarchical Disease-State Generators for Neurodegenerative Genomics: A Benchmark Proposal for Intervention-Conditioned Multi-omic Generation

    David Scott Lewis, Enrique Zueco · PDF
  32. Identifying Donor-Robust Perturbation Targets via Sparse Manifold Control

    Adithya Madduri, Chirag Patel · PDF
  33. Large-Scale Benchmarking of Gene and Expression Encoding Strategies for Single-Cell Foundation Models

    Igor Sadalski · PDF
  34. LLM-Guided Retrieval for Prediction of Molecular Perturbation Responses

    Betty Xiong, Jan-Christian Huetter, Gabriele Scalia, Tommaso Biancalani, Sepideh Maleki · PDF
  35. MapPFN: Learning Causal Perturbation Maps in Context

    Marvin Sextro, Weronika Kłos, Gabriel Dernbach · PDF
  36. MechPert: Mechanistic Consensus as an Inductive Bias for Unseen Perturbation Prediction

    Marc Boubnovski Martell, Josefa Lia Stoisser, Lawrence Phillips, Aditya Misra, Robert Kitchen, Jesper Ferkinghoff-Borg, Jialin Yu, Philip Torr, Kaspar Märtens
  37. Mimyr: Generative Modeling of Missing Tissue in Spatial Transcriptomics

    Ajinkya Pankaj Deshpande, Zhilei Bei, Jian Ma, Spencer Krieger · PDF
  38. Modern Gene Finders: ab initio gene discovery benchmark with DNA language models

    Aleksei Shmelev, Artem Shadskiy, Yuri Kuratov, Mikhail Burtsev, Olga Kardymon, Veniamin Fishman · PDF
  39. Motif-Gen: Learning the Compositional Logic of Gene Regulation for De Novo DNA Design

    Shentong Mo
  40. mRNABench: A curated benchmark for mature mRNA property and function prediction

    Ruian Shi, Taykhoom Dalal, Philip Fradkin, Divya Koyyalagunta, Simran Chhabria, Andrew J Jung, Cyrus L. Tam, Defne Ceyhan, Jessica Lin, Kaitlin U Laverty, Ilyes Baali, BO WANG, Quaid Morris · PDF
  41. ON THE IMPACT OF EMBEDDING ANISOTROPY IN GENOMIC LANGUAGE MODELS FOR BACTERIAL TAXONOMY

    Mike Leske, Francesca Bottacini, Rafael Ricardo de Castro Cuadrat, Haithem Afli, Bruno Gabriel Nascimento Andrade · PDF
  42. On the role of drug representations in single-cell perturbation modeling

    Marco Pegoraro, Sanketh Vedula, Lion Halika, Michael M Danziger, Alexander Bronstein, Michal Rosen-Zvi · PDF
  43. Optimizing Genomic Language Models for Efficient Training, Fine-Tuning, and Inference

    Ali Saadat, Jacques Fellay · PDF
  44. PD-scWorld: Pathway-Guided Disentanglement for Single-Cell Perturbation World Models

    Azmine Toushik Wasi · PDF
  45. Protein Counterfactuals via Diffusion-Guided Latent Optimization

    Weronika Kłos, Sidney Bender, Lukas Kades · PDF
  46. Rethinking Perturbation Prediction Baselines

    Junwei Sun, Ouyang Zhu, Yiqun T. Chen
  47. Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Predicting Cellular Responses to Gene Perturbation

    Andrea Giuseppe Di Francesco, Andrea Rubbi, Pietro Lio · PDF
  48. Reward-Guided Discrete Diffusion via Clean-Sample Markov Chain for Molecule and Biological Sequence Design

    Prin Phunyaphibarn, Minhyuk Sung · PDF
  49. Scaling Laws and Architectural Frontiers in Metagenomic Foundation Models

    Geraldene Munsamy, Gavin Ayres, Jérémie DONA, Carla Greco, Daniel Anderson, Srijani Sridhar, William Chow, Aaron W Kollasch, Robert J. Pecoraro, Tanggis Bohnuud, Keith Kam, Gus Minto-Cowcher, Marcus H Y Leung, Hassan Sirelkhatim, John St. John, Ali Taghibakhshi, Tyler C. Shimko, Jared Wilber, Timur Rvachov, Saee Gopal Paliwal, Eddie Calleja, Noelia Ferruz, Kevin K Yang, Philipp Lorenz, Francesco Farina · PDF
  50. Sequence Generation and Phylogenetic Inference with Generative Flow Networks

    Qichen Huang, Carlos Michel Mourra-Diaz, Xiaozhen Wen, David Payette · PDF
  51. Sparse Autoencoders Reveal Interpretable Features in Single-Cell Foundation Models

    Flavia Pedrocchi, Florian Barkmann, Amir Joudaki, Valentina Boeva · PDF
  52. SplicedVAE: Learning Splicing Ratios from scRNA-seq to Enhance RNA Velocity and Cellular Trajectories

    Sahil Gupta, Andrew Ni, Jiaqi Zhang · PDF
  53. Structured and interpretable patient embeddings from Single-Cell Foundation Models

    Gonçalo Rei Pinto, Su Han Cho, Selman Yasin Özleyen, Eva Fast, Soroor Hediyeh-zadeh, Jie Quan, Fabian J Theis · PDF
  54. Tensorised Modular Architectures for Multi-Omics Generation

    Arinbjörn Kolbeinsson, Benedikt Kolbeinsson · PDF
  55. Toward Generative Virtual Cells: Co-Evolving World Models and Perturbation Planners

    David Scott Lewis, Enrique Zueco · PDF
  56. Trajectory-conditioned reconstruction of single-cell expression suggests regulatory programs

    Wenjie Fan, Antonio Orvieto, Manfred Claassen · PDF
  57. TRUST-REGION SALIENCY-GUIDED LOCAL SEARCH FOR INTERPRETABLE SEQUENCE DESIGN AT FIXED EDIT BUDGETS

    Sara E. Pour