New paper proposes foundation models that learn across biological scales
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-09-18
A new open-access paper in an IOP journal, Towards foundation models that learn across biological scales, by Jérémie Kalfon (Institut Pasteur/CNRS) with Laura Cantini and Gabriel Peyré, argues for extending life-science foundation models to learn across biological scales (molecules, cells, tissues).
- Second Ph.D. paper of first author Kalfon; earlier presented at the ICML workshop on Foundation Models for Life Science
- Authors describe it as big ideas backed by early evidence, arguably the first work on this topic
- Points readers to the richer related PULSAR work (Pang, Rosen et al.)
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