Second call for papers from ICML 2026 3rd Workshop on Multi-modal Foundation Models and Large Language Models for Life Sciences

[Pengtao Xie]

We are pleased to announce the 3rd Workshop on Multi-modal Foundation Models and Large Language Models for Life Sciences (FM4LS) at ICML 2026 taking place July 10 or 11, 2026 in Seoul, Korea.

The workshop will bring together researchers working at the intersection of multi-modal learning, foundation models, LLMs, and life sciences to discuss recent advancements, explore methodological innovations, and identify key challenges in designing multi-modal foundation models and LLMs for biological data.

Call for Papers: https://icml2026fm4ls.github.io/pages/call-for-participation.html
Submission Portal: https://openreview.net/group?id=ICML.cc/2026/Workshop/FM4LS
Key dates:

• Submission Deadline: May 1st, 2026, 11:59 pm AoE
• Acceptance Notification: May 15th, 2026, 11:59 pm AoE
• Workshop: July 10 or 11, 2026

We invite submissions related to the theme of the workshop. Topics and relevant research areas include but are not limited to:

• Multi-modal foundation models for learning representations of proteins, DNAs, RNAs, transcriptomic data, metabolomic data, and other biological modalities
• Multi-modal LLMs for predicting the functions of proteins, DNAs, RNAs, and other biomolecules
  
• LLM agents for multi-modal biomedical data
• Multi-modal foundation models for learning joint representations of multi-omics data
• Multi-modal generative models for designing proteins, DNAs, RNAs, and other biomolecules
• Applications of multi-modal foundation models and LLMs in drug discovery, precision medicine, personalized treatment, and beyond
• Interpretability and robustness in biological multi-modal foundation models and LLMs

Contact: icml20...@gmail.com

Best,
The Organizers
(Pengtao, James, Le, Ruishan, Eran, Wei, Marinka, Han)