LM4Sci 2.0: The Second Workshop on Language Models for Scientific Discovery
Date: October 9, 2026
Location: San Francisco, USA. Co-located with COLM ‘26.
Welcome to LM4Sci 2.0: The Second Workshop on Language Models for Scientific Discovery, a forum for researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and scientific discovery.
About the Workshop
Significant advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have spurred interest in using them to assist researchers in various scientific tasks, such as:
- Idea generation and brainstorming
- Experiment execution and automated ML engineering
- Searching and synthesizing literature reviews and scientific theories
- Literature-based question-answering
- Data analysis and data-driven discovery
- Achieving novel state-of-the-art discoveries
- End-to-end research pipeline including paper and report generation
These powerful AI systems are shown to be helpful tools for human researchers to accelerate the scientific discovery process across many scientific domains. For example, LLM-based agents have been developed for biologists to perform tasks such as data analysis and wet-lab assistance. We’ve also seen attempts at using LLMs for math research, such as research-level theorem proving and unsolved math problems. The paradigm of large-scale unified pretraining and reasoning post-training has been applied in various scientific domains, such as earth science, material science, and chemistry.
The focus of our workshop is on developing LLMs and AI systems that can accelerate scientific research in various scientific domains and assist human researchers. We aim to bring together researchers from different communities, including ML, NLP, Human-Computer Interaction, and various scientific disciplines such as biology and chemistry, to work together on the design, development, and evaluation of various forms of scientific LLMs and systems.
Submission
Submit your paper via OpenReview: openreview.net/group?id=colmweb.org/COLM/2026/Workshop/LM4Sci
Important Dates
- Submission Deadline: June 23, 2026, 11:59pm AOE
- Reviews Due: July 20, 2026 AOE
- Decision Notification: July 24, 2026 AOE
- Workshop Date: October 9, 2026
Past Editions
- LM4Sci 2025 — October 10, 2025, Montreal, Canada (co-located with COLM ‘25)