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AI-bio Papers Radar

315 papers from ICML 2026, filterable by topic. Each links straight to the original (OpenReview) and its code. Titles and abstracts stay in the authors' words.

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★ Spotlight MD & Structural Biology

Autoregressive Boltzmann Generators

Danyal Rehman, Charlie B. Tan, Yoshua Bengio, Joey Bose +1

Efficient sampling of molecular systems at thermodynamic equilibrium is a hallmark challenge in statistical physics. This challenge has driven the development of Boltzmann…

★ Spotlight Molecular & Drug Design

From Feasible to Practical: Pareto-Optimal Synthesis Planning

Friedrich Hastedt, Dongda Zhang, Antonio Del rio chanona

Current computer-aided synthesis planning (CASP) methods often treat retrosynthesis as solved once a single feasible route is identified, focusing primarily on convergence or…

★ Spotlight Protein Design

Protein Fold Classification at Scale: Benchmarking and Pretraining

Dexiong Chen, Andrei Manolache, Mathias Niepert, Karsten Borgwardt

Classifying protein topology is essential for deciphering biological function, but progress is held back by the lack of large-scale benchmarks that avoid duplicates and by models…

★ Spotlight Clinical & Healthcare

SleepLM: Natural-Language Intelligence for Human Sleep

Zongzhe Xu, Zitao Shuai, Eideen Mozaffari, Ravi Shankar Aysola +2

We present SleepLM, a family of sleep-language foundation models that enable human sleep alignment, interpretation, and interaction with natural language. Despite the critical…

★ Spotlight Genomics

Training Diffusion Language Models for Black-Box Optimization

Zipeng Sun, Can Chen, Ye Yuan, Haolun Wu +3

We study offline black-box optimization (BBO), aiming to discover improved designs from an offline dataset of designs and labels, a problem common in robotics, DNA, and materials…

Clinical & Healthcare

A Geometric Lens on Physics-Aligned Data Compression

Aleix Segui Ugalde, Wesley Armour

In AI for Science, physics-informed losses are increasingly used to train learned compressors for scientific data, but their rate--distortion implications remain poorly…

Neuroscience & Brain

A hitchhiker's guide to Poisson gradient estimation

Michael Ibrahim, Hanqi Zhao, Eli Zachary Sennesh, Zhi Li +4

Poisson-distributed latent variable models are widely used in computational neuroscience, but differentiating through discrete stochastic samples remains challenging. Two…

Clinical & Healthcare

Agentic Framework for Epidemiological Modeling

Rituparna Datta, Zihan Guan, Baltazar Espinoza, Yiqi Su +4

Epidemic modeling is essential for public health planning, yet traditional approaches rely on fixed model classes that require manual redesign as pathogens, policies, and scenario…

Clinical & Healthcare

BioAgent Bench: An AI Agent Evaluation Suite for Bioinformatics

Dionizije Fa, Marko Čuljak, Bruno Pandža, Mateo Čupić

We introduce BioAgent Bench, an evaluation suite designed for measuring the performance and robustness of AI agents in common bioinformatics tasks. The suite consists of manually…

Clinical & Healthcare Single-cell

CellBRIDGE: Learning Cellular Trajectories via Interaction-Aware Alignment

Silas Ruhrberg Estévez, Nicolas Huynh, Tennison Liu, Roderik M. Kortlever +3

Inferring dynamics from population snapshots is a fundamental challenge in machine learning and biology. In scRNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq), destructive measurements preclude direct…

Protein Design

Co-Generative De Novo Functional Protein Design

Xinrui Chen, Yizhen Luo, Siqi Fan, Zaiqing Nie

*De novo* functional protein design aims to generate protein sequences that realize specified biochemical functions without relying on evolutionary templates, enabling broad…

MD & Structural Biology

Coarse-Grained Boltzmann Generators

Weilong Chen, Bojun Zhao, Jan Eckwert, Julija Zavadlav

Sampling equilibrium molecular configurations from the Boltzmann distribution is a longstanding challenge. Boltzmann Generators (BGs) address this by combining exact-likelihood…

Neuroscience & Brain

Credit Assignment via Neural Manifold Noise Correlation

Byungwoo Kang, Maceo Richards, Bernardo L. Sabatini

Credit assignment, the process of determining how changes in individual neurons and synapses influence a network’s output, is central to learning in brains and machines. Noise…

Clinical & Healthcare Medical Imaging

Deep Learning for BioImaging: What Are We Really Learning?

Ivan Svatko, Maxime Sanchez, Ihab Bendidi, Gilles Cottrell +1

Representation learning has driven major advances in natural image analysis by enabling models to acquire high-level semantic features. In microscopy imaging, however, it remains…

Molecular & Drug Design

Derivative Informed Learning of Exchange-Correlation Functionals

Eike Eberhard, Luca Thiede, Abdulrahman Aldossary, Andreas Burger +4

Machine-learned (ML) XC functionals aim to replace human-designed density functional approximations by learning directly from reference data, but they still do not consistently…

Genomics

DNACHUNKER: Learnable Tokenization for DNA Language Models

Taewon Kim, Jihwan Shin, Hyomin Kim, Youngmok Jung +4

DNA language models are increasingly used to represent genomic sequence, yet their effectiveness depends critically on how raw nucleotides are converted into model inputs. Unlike…

Neuroscience & Brain

Dynamic Compression Flows for Neuroscience Data

Ganchao Wei, Daniela F De Albuquerque, Miles Martinez, Shiyang Pan +1

While neuroscience experiments have repeatedly demonstrated the involvement of large populations of neurons in even simple behaviors, these studies have just as often reported…

Protein Design

Flexible Kernels for Protein Property Prediction

Martin Jankowiak, Yerdos Ordabayev, Rudraksh Tuwani, Henry Neil Ward +3

Despite its importance to applications in protein design, predicting protein properties like binding affinity and thermostability from sparse experimental data remains a…

Genomics

GENEB: Why Genomic Models Are Hard to Compare

Daria Ledneva, Mikhail Nuridinov, Denis Kuznetsov

Progress in genomic foundation models is difficult to assess due to fragmented benchmarks, incompatible evaluation protocols, and task-specific reporting. As a result, claims of…

Clinical & Healthcare

HEARTS: Benchmarking LLM Reasoning on Health Time Series

Sirui Li, Shuhan Xiao, Mihir Joshi, Ahmed Metwally +3

The rise of large language models (LLMs) has shifted time series analysis from narrow analytics to general-purpose reasoning. Yet, existing benchmarks cover only a small set of…

Neuroscience & Brain

Let EEG Models Learn EEG

Yifan Wang, Yijia Ma, Wen Li, Chenyu You

High-fidelity EEG generation is critical for alleviating data scarcity and addressing privacy constraints in large-scale neural modeling. Despite recent progress, most existing…

Protein Design

MacroGuide: Topological Guidance for Macrocycle Generation

Alicja Maksymiuk, Alexandre Duplessis, Michael M. Bronstein, Alexander Tong +2

Macrocycles are ring-shaped molecules that offer a promising alternative to small-molecule drugs due to their enhanced selectivity and binding affinity against difficult targets.…

Neuroscience & Brain

Omni-fMRI: A Universal Atlas-Free fMRI Foundation Model

Mo Wang, Wenhao Ye, Junfeng Xia, Junxiang Zhang +4

Self-supervised fMRI foundation models have shown promising transfer performance, yet most rely on predefined region-level parcellations that discard fine-grained voxel…

Medical Imaging

On Revisiting Entropy for Identifying Mislabeled Images

Chunlei Li, Zixuan Zheng, Yilei Shi, Guanglu Dong +4

Mislabeled samples in training datasets severely degrade the performance of deep networks, as overparameterized models tend to memorize erroneous labels. We address this challenge…

Neuroscience & Brain

On the Spectral Unreachability of Brain Graph Learning

Jiaming Zhuo, Shuai Zhai, Ziyi Ma, Kun Fu +4

Brain network classification is pivotal for diagnosing neurological disorders, yet identifying interpretable functional biomarkers fundamentally relies on precise parcellation.…

Clinical & Healthcare

OSF: On Pre-training and Scaling of Sleep Foundation Models

Zitao Shuai, Zongzhe Xu, David Yang, Wei Wang +1

Polysomnography (PSG) provides the gold standard for sleep assessment but suffers from substantial heterogeneity across recording devices and cohorts. There have been growing…

Clinical & Healthcare

Process Reward Agents for Steering Knowledge-Intensive Reasoning

Jiwoong Sohn, Tomasz Sternal, Kenneth Styppa, Torsten Hoefler +1

Reasoning in knowledge-intensive domains remains challenging as intermediate steps are often not locally verifiable: unlike math or code, evaluating step correctness may require…

Protein Design

Protein Circuit Tracing via Cross-layer Transcoders

Darin Tsui, Kunal Talreja, Daniel Saeedi, Amirali Aghazadeh

Protein language models (pLMs) have emerged as powerful predictors of protein structure and function. However, the computational circuits underlying their predictions remain…

Medical Imaging Neuroscience & Brain

Scaling Vision Transformers for Functional MRI with Flat Maps

Connor Lane, Mihir Tripathy, Leema Krishna Murali, Ratna Sagari Grandhi +4

We study the problem of training self-supervised foundation models for functional MRI. Our main contributions are: (1) we introduce a new model family (CortexMAE) trained using…

Single-cell

scCBGM: Single-Cell Editing via Concept Bottlenecks

Alma Andersson, Aya Abdelsalam Ismail, Edward De Brouwer, Doron Haviv +4

Understanding cellular phenotypes and how they respond to perturbations is critical for disease biology and therapeutic design. Single-cell RNA sequencing enables characterization…

Clinical & Healthcare

Small Agent Group is the Future of Digital Health

Yuqiao Meng, Luoxi Tang, Dazheng Zhang, Rafael Brens +4

The rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) in digital health has been driven by a "scaling-first" philosophy, i.e., the assumption that clinical intelligence increases…

Molecular & Drug Design MD & Structural Biology

Speculative Sampling For Faster Molecular Dynamics

Arthur Kosmala, Stephan Günnemann, Meng Gao, Brandon M. Wood

Molecular dynamics (MD) is a key tool for simulating the dynamical behavior of atomic systems. However, MD is inherently serial, which makes it difficult to increase single-system…

Clinical & Healthcare Neuroscience & Brain

Structured Multi-modal Graph Disentanglement for Psychiatric Diagnosis

Hongyu Shi, Kaizhong Zheng, Wensheng Zhai, Shuai Jiang +2

Multi-modal neuroimaging-based psychiatric diagnosis must integrate cross-modal agreement with modality-specific complementarity, yet in real multi-site cohorts these signals are…

Neuroscience & Brain

Torus Graphs for Large Scale Neural Phase Analysis

Jack Goffinet, Casey Hanks, David Carlson

Oscillatory neural signals such as electroencephalography (EEG) and local field potentials (LFPs) show phase relationships that coordinate communication across brain regions.…

Protein Design

Towards A Generative Protein Evolution Machine with DPLM-Evo

Xinyou Wang, Liang Hong, Jiasheng Ye, Zaixiang Zheng +2

Proteins are shaped by gradual evolution under biophysical and functional constraints. Protein language models learn rich evolutionary constraints from large-scale sequences, and…

Molecular & Drug Design

VecMol: Vector-Field Representations for 3D Molecule Generation

Yuchen Hua, Xingang Peng, Jianzhu Ma, Muhan Zhang

Generative modeling of three-dimensional (3D) molecules is a fundamental yet challenging problem in drug discovery and materials science. Existing approaches typically represent…