Sun Yat-sen University
A comprehensive research university in Guangzhou, China, working across the humanities, natural sciences, engineering, and medicine.
Models (13)
Hyperbolic protein language model for alignment-free phylogenetic inference, turning ESM2-650M embeddings into distance matrices for tree placement.
Generative virtual-cell model predicting whole-transcriptome responses to unseen compounds and genetic perturbations, from cell lines to organoids.
Mol-Reasoning
Pengcheng Laboratory / Sun Yat-sen University / Tsinghua University
Released March 13, 2026
Molecular reasoning model built on DeepSeek-7B, using chain-of-thought and reinforcement learning for property prediction, generation, and reactions.
Designs synthesizable PROTAC degraders from reaction templates and purchasable building blocks, with reinforcement learning tuning the generator.
GPFM
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Sun Yat-sen University / Southern Medical University / Chinese University of Hong Kong
Released November 1, 2025
Histopathology foundation model extracting general-purpose features from H&E patches by distilling the UNI, Phikon, and CONCH pathology encoders.
Multimodal viral foundation model over nucleotide and protein sequence, built for virus discovery, function annotation, and antibody design.
MINIM
Peking University / Macau University of Science and Technology / Sun Yat-sen University
Released February 1, 2025
Text-to-image diffusion model that generates synthetic medical images across imaging modalities and organs to augment scarce clinical training data.
MedRegA
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Sun Yat-sen University
Released October 24, 2024
Region-aware bilingual medical multimodal LLM that handles image- and region-level vision-language tasks across eight imaging modalities.
Single-cell foundation model with 800M parameters trained on ~100 million human cells, for annotation, perturbation prediction, and gene analysis.
EyeFound
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University / Sun Yat-sen University / National University of Singapore / EPFL
Released May 18, 2024
Ophthalmic imaging foundation model pretrained on 2.78M images across 11 modalities for diagnosis, prognosis, and visual question answering.
PTUnifier
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen / Sun Yat-sen University / Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data
Released February 17, 2023
Medical vision-language pretraining unifying fusion-encoder and dual-encoder designs, handling image-only, text-only, and paired inputs in one model.
M3AE
Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data / Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen / Sun Yat-sen University
Released September 15, 2022
Self-supervised medical vision-and-language pretraining via multi-modal masked autoencoders that reconstruct masked image patches and text tokens.
ARL (Align, Reason and Learn)
Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data / Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen / Sun Yat-sen University
Released September 15, 2022
Medical vision-language pretraining framework that injects structured medical knowledge into radiology image-text learning for VQA and retrieval.