2 papers
cs.LG2026
Simulation as Supervision: Mechanistic Pretraining for Scientific Discovery
Carson Dudley, Reiden Magdaleno, Christopher Harding +1
Scientific modeling faces a tradeoff between the interpretability of mechanistic theory and the predictive power of machine learning. While existing hybrid approaches have made pro…
cs.AI2026
Mantis: A Foundation Model for Mechanistic Disease Forecasting
Carson Dudley, Reiden Magdaleno, Christopher Harding +3
Infectious disease forecasting in novel outbreaks or low-resource settings is hampered by the need for large disease and covariate data sets, bespoke training, and expert tuning, a…