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Fabian Theis says his group developed Lab Compass, an inverse generative model that, given a forward world model, identifies what needs to be done to reach a target state.

Fabian Theis · Controlling Biology - Fabian Theis, Helmholtz Munich · 6 Nov 2026

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“And we actually brought out, I think it should be on, on BioRxiv today or tomorrow, a new thing we-- which we call Lab Compass, which is an inverse generative model that actually allows you, once you have a forward world model or whatever, to tell you what you need to do in order to reach a certain state.”
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