ICLR 2026 Past Other

Learning Meaningful Representations of Life (LMRL) Workshop at ICLR 2026

ICLR 2026 Workshop LMRL

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Accepted papers (65)

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  1. A Comprehensive Benchmark of Batch Integration Methods for Spatial Transcriptomics Using a Large-Scale Cancer Atlas

    Liam Ludington, Xavier Sécheresse, Khalil Ouardini, Regis Loeb, vincent cabeli, Omar Darwiche Domingues, Arthur Pignet · PDF
  2. A Forecasting Benchmark of Large-Scale Neural Populations during Task-Driven Behavior

    Giuliano Costa, Petru Manescu · PDF
  3. A Geometric Perspective on Zero-Shot Variant Effect Prediction Across the Central Dogma

    César Miguel Valdez Córdova, Aaron Wenteler · PDF
  4. A Hierarchical Surface Graph Framework for Protein–Protein Binding Affinity Prediction

    Sharmi Banerjee, Mostafa Karimi, Sukanya Sasmal, Jonah Noh, Pete Bowry, Tommi Jaakkola, Bella Dubrov, Shang Shang · PDF
  5. A Transcriptomic Benchmark for Foundation Models in Immunology and Inflammation Drug Development

    Karim El Kanbi, Yannis Cattan, Pierre Marschall, Matthew Corney, Aziz Fouché, Vincent Bouget, Julien Duquesne · PDF
  6. Agentic orchestration of drug discovery ML tools under partial observability

    Sara Masarone, Katie Victoria Beckwith, Matthew Mason, Thomas Clelford, Layla Hosseini-Gerami · PDF
  7. ALPHASURF: ON-THE-FLY SURFACE COMPUTATIONS FOR PROTEIN REPRESENTATION LEARNING

    Victor Gertner, Frederic Cazals, Vincent Mallet · PDF
  8. Antibody design with steerable discrete diffusion

    Hugh Yeh, Niksa Praljak, Zhijie Chen, Thomas M. Walsh, Juan L. Mendoza, Jun Huang, Andrew Ferguson · PDF
  9. Are Vision Foundation Models foundational for electron microscopy image segmentation?

    Caterina Fuster-Barceló, Virginie Uhlmann · PDF
  10. AReUReDi: Annealed Rectified Updates for Refining Discrete Flows with Multi-Objective Guidance

    Tong Chen, Yinuo Zhang, Sophia Vincoff, Pranam Chatterjee · PDF
  11. AtomSurf-PPI: Protein-Protein Docking with Geometric Deep Learning Representations

    Yangyang Miao, Bruno Correia, Vincent Mallet · PDF
  12. Beyond Motif Localization: Probing Rule-Level Signals in Synthetic Genomic Grammars

    Ramu Lakshmanan, Rafael Peres Da Silva, Niranjan Nagarajan · PDF
  13. CELLTARNET: SINGLE-CELL PERTURBATION PREDICTION USING TRANSFORMER BASED NORMALIZING FLOW

    Shiv Shankar · PDF
  14. Converting diffusions to flows accelerates sampling and suggests over-conditioning of co-folding models on sequence

    Nele P Quast, Niklas Abraham, Aaron Schöne, Fergus Imrie, Matthew I. J. Raybould, Yee Whye Teh, Charlotte Deane · PDF
  15. Deep Learning for BioImaging: What Are We Learning?

    Ivan Svatko, Maxime Sanchez, Ihab Bendidi, Gilles Cottrell, Auguste Genovesio · PDF
  16. Efficient Cell Painting Image Representation Learning via Cross-Well Aligned Masked Siamese Network

    PinJui Huang, Yu-Hsuan Liao, Soo Heon Kim, Noseong Park, Park Jong Bae, Dongmyung Shin · PDF
  17. Enigma: An Efficient Model for Deciphering Regulatory Genomics

    Andrew J Jung, ALICE J. GAO, Vivian Chu, Leo J Lee, Brendan Frey · PDF
  18. Entropy, Disagreement, and the Limits of Foundation Models in Genomics

    Maxime Rochkoulets, Lovro Vrček, Mile Sikic · PDF
  19. EVA-RNA: A Scaling Cross-Species Transcriptomic Foundation Models for Immunology & Inflammation

    Aziz Fouché, Yannis Cattan, Charlotte Claye, Matthew Corney, Pierre Marschall, Karim El Kanbi, Julien Duquesne · PDF
  20. Exploring Perturbation Effects on Transcriptional Dynamics with ContrastiveBiVI

    Ashenafee Anteneh Mandefro, Ethan Weinberger, Addie Woicik, Tal Ashuach · PDF
  21. From Static to Dynamic: Inferring Protein Dynamics from Structure and Language Embeddings

    Arthur Monnier, Pengkang Guo, Bruno Correia, Pierre Vandergheynst · PDF
  22. From Words to Amino Acids: Does the Curse of Depth Persist?

    Aleena Siji, Amir Mohammad Karimi Mamaghan, Ferdinand Kapl, Tobias Höppe, Emmanouil Angelis, Andrea Dittadi, Maurice Brenner, Michael Heinzinger, Karl Henrik Johansson, Kaitlin Maile, Johannes von Oswald, Stefan Bauer · PDF
  23. GeneGrad: Gene-Specific Geometric Gradients for Cell Fate Prediction in Single-Cell Transcriptomics

    Shupeng Luxu, Rong Ma · PDF
  24. Generating a Novel Dataset for Mechanisms of Drug-Induced Toxicity using LLM-supported tools

    Sara Masarone, Alex Beeson, Katie Victoria Beckwith, Matthew Mason, Thomas Clelford, Arran Willmott, Giovanni Montana, Layla Hosseini-Gerami · PDF
  25. Generative Modeling of Protein Conformational Ensembles With Cryo-EM Density Map Diffusion

    Jay Shenoy, Axel Levy, Miro A. Astore, FREDERIC P POITEVIN, Sonya M Hanson, Gordon Wetzstein · PDF
  26. Geometric Fragility in Alzheimer's Disease: Probing the Loss of Hippocampal Hierarchical Abstraction via Contrastive Point Cloud Modeling

    Yiquan Wang, Yuhan Chang, Jialin Zhang, Minnuo Cai, Jiayao Yan, Hongtian Zhao, Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative · PDF
  27. Graph Set Transformer: Learning Graph Representations with Set Context

    Daniel Probst, Jose Eduardo Escrig Molina · PDF
  28. Hiding in Plain Sight: Visible Gene Correlations Undermine Single-Cell Representations

    Alon Hacohen, Joseph Charles Bingham, Binyamin Perets, Dvir Aran · PDF
  29. Hierarchical Multi-Omic CLIP for Missing-Modality Imputation & Transfer Learning in Blood Cancers

    Leonardo P.A. Biral, Dennis Owusu, Sandeep Dave · PDF
  30. Hierarchical Multi-Scale Modeling of Absolute Binding Affinity in Protein Complexes

    Dongyun Kim, Soorin Yim, Sungjoon Park, Kiwoong Yoo, Kyungwook Lee, Doyeong Hwang, Soonyoung Lee, Jongseong Jang, Kiyoung Kim · PDF
  31. Higher-order grammar representations for molecular generation and learning

    Yiming Huang, Yujie Zeng, Vijay Prakash Dwivedi, Simone Foti, Jianmin Wang, Jure Leskovec, Tolga Birdal · PDF
  32. How Far Can LLMs Go On Cognitive Health Prediction? A Study On EMA Data

    Sambit Mukherjee, Anthony Fu, Kai Zhao, Yang Ren, Dezhi Wu, Chih-Hsiang Yang · PDF
  33. Incorporating contextual information into KGWAS for interpretable GWAS discovery

    Cheng Jiang, Brady Ryan, Megan Crow, Kipper Fletez-Brant, Kashish Doshi, Sandra Melo, Kexin Huang, Burkhard Hoeckendorf, Heming Yao, David Richmond · PDF
  34. Intermediate Layers Encode Optimal Biological Representations in Single-Cell Foundation Models

    Vincenzo Yuto Civale, Roberto Semeraro, Andrew D. Bagdanov, Alberto Magi · PDF
  35. Interpretable AI Reasoning for the Identification of Vibrational Spectroscopic Markers of Acetaminophen Impurities

    Kaio Anderson dos Santos Soares, Ludmilla da Silva Augusto, Roner Ferreira da Costa, Eveline Matias Bezerra · PDF
  36. JUST ADD STRUCTURE: PROTEIN LANGUAGE MODELS COMBINED WITH STRUCTURAL EQUIVARIANCE EXCEL AT PROTEIN TASKS

    Qurat ul ain, Charlotte Deane, Yee Whye Teh, Carlos Outeiral, Matteo Cagiada · PDF
  37. Learning Continuous Morphological Trajectories via Latent Principal Curves

    Sebastian Magana, Wenjun Zhao, Khanh Dao Duc · PDF
  38. Learning Dynamic Protein Representations at Scale with Distograms

    Nicolas Portal, Wissam Karroucha, Vincent Mallet, Massimiliano Bonomi · PDF
  39. Learning image representation for limited cryo-EM data

    Radosław Kuczbański, Wojciech Maciej Kozłowski, Lukas Frey, Konrad Karanowski, Mateusz Grzesiuk, Andrzej Rzepiela, Maciej Zieba · PDF
  40. Learning Joint Morpho-Molecular Tissue Representations with a Multimodal Transformer

    Adriano Martinelli, Bernd Illing, Isinsu Katircioglu, Alice Driessen, Fei Tang, Robert Berke, Raphael Gottardo, Marianna Rapsomaniki · PDF
  41. Mechanistic Interpretability of Antibody Language Models Using SAEs

    Rebonto Haque, Oliver M. Turnbull, Anisha Parsan, Nithin Parsan, John Jingxuan Yang, Charlotte Deane · PDF
  42. Methylation-Aware Embedding Geometry Emerges from Bisulfite Pretraining in DNA Language Models

    Jiajie Xiao, Salwan Butrus, Nathan Hunkapiller · PDF
  43. 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
  44. Multimodal Manifold Learning for Clonally Constrained Trajectory Inference

    Irene Bonafonte Pardàs, Myriam Lizotte, Guy Wolf, Benjamin Schubert · PDF
  45. On The Robustness of scRNA-seq Foundation Models for Plants Under Cross-Domain Experimental Shift

    Manuel Fernández Burda, Rodrigo Bonazzola, Georgina Stegmayer, Enzo Ferrante, Diego H Milone · PDF
  46. On the role of drug representations for single-cell perturbation modeling

    Marco Pegoraro, Sanketh Vedula, Lion Halika, Michael M Danziger, Alexander Bronstein, Michal Rosen-Zvi · PDF
  47. Orthogonal Evaluations Enable More Robust Predictions of Protein-Ligand Interactions

    Joseph G. Wakim, Irene Kim, Adam T. Zemla · PDF
  48. pCoMole: Pareto-Constrained Molecule Editing with Discrete Flows

    Tong Chen, Maximilian Holsman, Lin Zhao, Yinuo Zhang, Pranam Chatterjee · PDF
  49. 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
  50. Physics-Constrained Correlation-Aware Attention for Collective Cell Dynamics

    Dmitriy Stanislavchuk-Abovsky, Andrei Zakharov, Ilya Makarov · PDF
  51. Protein generation with embedding learning for motif diversification

    Kevin Michalewicz, Chen Jin, Philip Alexander Teare, Tom Diethe, Mauricio Barahona, Barbara Bravi, Asher Mullokandov · PDF
  52. Reading TEA leaves for de novo protein design

    Lorenzo Pantolini, Janani Durairaj · PDF
  53. Rewriting protein alphabets with language models

    Lorenzo Pantolini, Gabriel Studer, Laura Engist, Ieva Pudžiuvelytė, Florian Pommerening, Andrew Mark Waterhouse, Stefan Bienert, Gerardo Tauriello, Martin Steinegger, Torsten Schwede, Janani Durairaj · PDF
  54. Sequence-context-aware decoding enables robust reconstruction of protein dynamics from crystallographic B-factors

    Yiquan Wang, Minnuo Cai, Yahui Ma, Kai Wei · PDF
  55. SNOOPPI: Sequence-Normalized Database of On- and Off-Target Protein-Protein Interactions

    Sophia Vincoff, Pranam Chatterjee · PDF
  56. Spatial Autocorrelation Predicts Cross-Modal Learnability: A Systematic Benchmark of Metabolite Prediction from Gene Expression

    Maiia Shulman, Anastasia Litinetskaya, Eirini Giannakoulia, Fabian J Theis · PDF
  57. TCR-EML: Explainable Model Layers for TCR-pMHC Prediction

    Jiarui Li, Zixiang Yin, Zhengming Ding, Samuel J Landry, Ramgopal R. Mettu · PDF
  58. TD3B: Transition-Directed Discrete Diffusion for Allosteric Binder Generation

    Hanqun Cao, Aastha Pal, Sophia Tang, Yinuo Zhang, Jingjie Zhang, Pheng-Ann Heng, Pranam Chatterjee · PDF
  59. Towards Cross-Sample Alignment for Multi-Modal Representation Learning in Spatial Transcriptomics

    Justina Dai, Kalin Nonchev, Viktor Koelzer, Gunnar Ratsch · PDF
  60. Tracing Pharmacological Knowledge in Large Language Models

    Basil Hasan Khwaja, Dylan Chen, Guntas Toor, Anastasiya Kuznetsova · PDF
  61. Trajectory-conditioned reconstruction of single-cell expression suggests regulatory programs

    Wenjie Fan, Antonio Orvieto, Manfred Claassen · PDF
  62. TripleThreat: Benchmarking Functional Sensitivity in Protein Representations with Paralog-Ortholog Triplets

    Mohini K. Misra, Gowri Nayar, Emma Lundberg, Russ B Altman · PDF
  63. TRUST-REGION SALIENCY-GUIDED LOCAL SEARCH FOR INTERPRETABLE SEQUENCE DESIGN AT FIXED EDIT BUDGETS

    Sara E. Pour · PDF
  64. Wasserstein Motifs: Non-deterministic Alignment of Ecological Networks

    Yifan Xu, Carlos A Taveras, Lydia Beaudrot, Cesar A Uribe · PDF
  65. What information is preserved in latent cell embeddings? A Benchmark for Single-Cell Reconstruction

    Xiaotong Fu, Dominik Klein, Alessandro Palma, Egor Antipov, Alejandro Tejada Lapuerta, Fabian J Theis · PDF