15 must-see posters & presentations at ICLR 2025
If you’re planning your trip to ICLR 2025, you may have one or two of Singapore’s famous sights on your list, but don’t forget to include these 15 posters and presentations from MIT Jameel Clinic researchers that cover topics from molecular docking to biomedical foundation models.
Keep scrolling to check out the four oral presentations and 11 posters (and a couple of hawker center/food recommendations from MIT PhD student and Singapore local Serena Khoo!) that were accepted to ICLR 2025!:
Thursday, 24 April
Poster Session 1
Learning General-purpose Biomedical Volume Representations using Randomized Synthesis
Neel Dey, Benjamin Billot, Hallee E. Wong, Clinton Wang, Mengwei Ren, Ellen Grant, Adrian V Dalca, Polina Golland
Poster Session 2
Fictitious Synthetic Data Can Improve LLM Factuality via Prerequisite Learning
Yujian Liu, Shiyu Chang, Tommi Jaakkola, Yang Zhang
Contextualizing biological perturbation experiments through language
Menghua (Rachel) Wu, Russell Littman, Jacob Levine, Lin Qiu, Tommaso Biancalani, David Richmond, Jan-Christian Huetter
Poster Session 4
Risk-Controlling Model Selection via Guided Bayesian Optimization
Adam Fisch, Regina Barzilay, Bracha Laufer-Goldshtein, Tommi Jaakkola
3:30pm (SGT) Oral: ProtComposer: Compositional Protein Structure Generation with 3D Ellipsoids
Hannes Stärk, Bowen Jing, Tomas Geffner, Jason Yim, Tommi Jaakkola, Arash Vahdat, Karsten Kreis
3:42pm (SGT) Oral: ShEPhERD: Diffusing shape, electrostatics, and pharmacophores for bioisosteric drug design
Keir Adams, Kento Abeywardane, Jenna Fromer, Connor Coley
Friday, 25 April
Poster Session 3
Fine-Tuning Discrete Diffusion Models via Reward Optimization with Applications to DNA and Protein Design
Chenyu Wang, Masatoshi Uehara, Yichun He, Amy Wang, Avantika Lal, Tommi Jaakkola, Sergey Levine, Aviv Regev, Hanchen, Tommaso Biancalani
Procedural Synthesis of Synthesizable Molecules
Michael Sun, Alston Lo, Minghao Guo, Jie Chen, Connor W. Coley, Wojciech Matusik
Poster Session 4
Adaptive backtracking for faster optimization
Joao V. Cavalcanti, Laurent Lessard, Ashia C. Wilson
An Information Criterion for Controlled Disentanglement of Multimodal Data
Chenyu Wang, Sharut Gupta, Xinyi Zhang, Sana Tonekaboni, Stefanie Jegelka, Tommi Jaakkola, Caroline Uhler
11:18am (SGT) Oral: Composing Unbalanced Flows for Flexible Docking and Relaxation
Gabriele Corso, Vignesh Ram Somnath, Noah Getz, Regina Barzilay, Tommi Jaakkola, Andreas Krause
Saturday, 26 April
Poster Session 5
Calibrating Expressions of Certainty
Peiqi Wang, Barbara D. Lam, Yingcheng Liu, Ameneh Asgari-Targhi, Rameswar Panda, William M Wells, Tina Kapur, Polina Golland
Poster Session 6
Data Distillation for extrapolative protein design through exact preference optimization
Mostafa Karimi, Sharmi Banerjee, Tommi Jaakkola, Bella Dubrov, Shang Shang, Ron Benson
Think while You Generate: Discrete Diffusion with Planned Denoising
Sulin Liu, Juno Nam, Andrew Campbell, Hannes Stärk, Yilun Xu, Tommi Jaakkola, Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli
3:42pm (SGT) Oral: Generator Matching: Generative modeling with arbitrary Markov processes
Peter Holderrieth, Marton Havasi, Jason Yim, Neta Shaul, Itai Gat, Tommi Jaakkola, Brian Karrer, Ricky T. Q. Chen, Yaron Lipman
BONUS: For some good bites not too far from the conference center, MIT PhD student and Singapore local Serena Khoo recommends getting Hainanese chicken rice and BBQ seafood from hawker centers Fengshan Food Centre or East Coast Lagoon Village!
