(Be Cautious!) Bio-Foundation Models Are Not Yet Robust to Biologically Plausible Perturbations and ML Transformations
Though biological foundation models (Bio-FMs) have delivered strong performance across biomedical tasks, their robustness to small-but-real perturbations is underexplored. In this work, we ask: Are Bio-FMs robust for real-world use? What perturbations compromise their reliability? Our pilot study su…