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    <h1>Call for Papers</h1>
    <p class="tagline">Machine Learning for Spatially Resolved High-dimensional Biology</p>
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  <div class="eyebrow">Scope</div>
  <h2>What We're Looking For</h2>
  <p>We invite submissions on machine learning methods for spatially resolved, high-dimensional biology, including but not limited to:</p>
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    <li>Learning biologically meaningful spatial representations that hold across scales, from molecules to niches to organs</li>
    <li>Integrating transcriptomic, proteomic, imaging, and clinical modalities into a single coherent model</li>
    <li>Modeling cell-cell communication and tissue dynamics over time</li>
    <li>Building interpretable and uncertainty-aware spatial models that biologists can trust</li>
    <li>Designing benchmarks, datasets, and evaluation standards specific to spatial tasks</li>
    <li>Developing novel ML and foundation models for spatial biology by integrating prior biological knowledge and inductive biases to improve interpretability and generalization across platforms, tissues, and species</li>
    <li>Handling data sparsity, noise, batch effects, and limited annotations</li>
    <li>Scaling learning to atlas-scale and whole-slide datasets</li>
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    <div class="eyebrow">Format</div>
    <h2>Submission Format</h2>
    <p>We invite <strong>extended abstracts of up to 4 pages</strong> (excluding references and an optional appendix), prepared using the NeurIPS 2026 style file. Submissions are <strong>non-archival</strong>, so authors are free to submit related or extended work concurrently to other venues.</p>
    <p>Review is <strong>double-blind</strong>: submissions must be anonymized, with no author names or identifying affiliations. Each submission receives three reviews from a program committee drawn from both the ML and biology communities.</p>
    <p>Papers must be formatted using the official <strong>NeurIPS 2026 LaTeX style file</strong> (<code>neurips_2026.tex</code> / <code>.sty</code>), available from the NeurIPS 2026 Call for Papers page on <a href="https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2026/CallForPapers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">neurips.cc</a> and mirrored as an Overleaf template. Use the style file's anonymous submission option (no author names or affiliations in the compiled PDF).</p>
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  <h2>Key Dates</h2>
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      <tr><td>Submission portal opens</td><td>August 2026</td></tr>
      <tr><td>Submission deadline</td><td><s>August 29, 2026</s> <span class="badge">September 4, 2026 (AoE)</span></td></tr>
      <tr><td>Acceptance notifications</td><td>September 29, 2026 (AoE)</td></tr>
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    <div class="eyebrow">Submit</div>
    <h2>How to Submit</h2>
    <p>All submissions will be handled through OpenReview, ensuring transparent review and enabling accepted papers to be listed on the NeurIPS workshop schedule.</p>
    <a class="cta" href="https://openreview.net/group?id=NeurIPS.cc/2026/Workshop/ML4SpatialBio#tab-recent-activity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Submit on OpenReview &rarr;</a>
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  <div class="eyebrow">Recognition</div>
  <h2>Contributed Spotlights</h2>
  <p>A contributed spotlight track will give early-career researchers visibility during the workshop, with slots explicitly reserved for early-career authors as part of our diversity and inclusion commitments.</p>
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    <div class="eyebrow">Review</div>
    <h2>Program Committee</h2>
    <p class="note">To be announced. The program committee will be finalized and, if necessary, expanded based on the number of submissions received. No organizer will review submissions from their own institution or direct collaborators; conflict-of-interest cases will be handled by a non-conflicted organizer following NeurIPS guidelines.</p>
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  <h2>Questions?</h2>
  <p>Email us at <a href="mailto:ml4spatialbio.workshop@gmail.com">ml4spatialbio.workshop@gmail.com</a>, or contact the organizers: <a href="mailto:s.bonn@uke.de">Stefan Bonn</a>, <a href="mailto:r.khatri@uke.de">Robin Khatri</a>, <a href="mailto:L.Testa@uke.de">Lucia Testa</a>, <a href="mailto:b.yousefi@uke.de">Behnam Yousefi</a>.</p>
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