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Yasha Ektefaie

4 accepted papers

2026

Controllable Sequence Editing for Biological and Clinical Trajectories

ICLR 2026poster

Conditional generation models for longitudinal sequences can produce new or modified trajectories given a conditioning input. However, they often lack control over when the condition should take effect (timing) and which variables it should influence (scope). Most methods either operate only on univ…

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2026

Exploring Relational Reasoning Capabilities in LLMs with REL

ICML 2026poster

Relational reasoning is the ability to infer relations that jointly bind multiple entities, attributes, or variables. While this capability is essential for scientific reasoning, most existing evaluations of relational reasoning in large language models focus on structured inputs such as tables, gra…

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2025

Evolutionary Reasoning Does Not Arise in Standard Usage of Protein Language Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

Protein language models (PLMs) are often assumed to capture evolutionary information by training on large protein sequence datasets. Yet it remains unclear whether PLMs can reason about evolution—that is, infer evolutionary relationships between sequences. We test this capability by evaluating wheth…

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2025

PertEval-scFM: Benchmarking Single-Cell Foundation Models for Perturbation Effect Prediction

ICML 2025poster

*In silico* modeling of transcriptional responses to perturbations is crucial for advancing our understanding of cellular processes and disease mechanisms. We present PertEval-scFM, a standardized framework designed to evaluate models for perturbation effect prediction. We apply PertEval-scFM to ben…