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Heterogeneous Scientific Foundation Model Collaboration

Zihao Li, Jiaru Zou, Feihao Fang, Xuying Ning, Mengting Ai, Tianxin Wei, Sirui Chen, Xiyuan Yang, Jingrui He

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Published 2026-04-30 · First seen 2026-05-01

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Agentic large language model systems have demonstrated strong capabilities. However, their reliance on language as the universal interface fundamentally limits their applicability to many real-world problems, especially in scientific domains where domain-specific foundation models have been developed to address specialized tasks beyond natural language. In this work, we introduce Eywa, a heterogeneous agentic framework designed to extend language-centric systems to a broader class of scientific foundation models. The key idea of Eywa is to augment domain-specific foundation models with a language-model-based reasoning interface, enabling language models to guide inference over non-linguistic data modalities. This design allows predictive foundation models, which are typically optimized for specialized data and tasks, to participate in higher-level reasoning and decision-making processes within agentic systems. Eywa can serve as a drop-in replacement for a single-agent pipeline (EywaAgent) or be integrated into existing multi-agent systems by replacing traditional agents with specialized agents (EywaMAS). We further investigate a planning-based orchestration framework in which a planner dynamically coordinates traditional agents and Eywa agents to solve complex tasks across heterogeneous data modalities (EywaOrchestra). We evaluate Eywa across a diverse set of scientific domains spanning physical, life, and social sciences. Experimental results demonstrate that Eywa improves performance on tasks involving structured and domain-specific data, while reducing reliance on language-based reasoning through effective collaboration with specialized foundation models.

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@misc{li2026heterogeneous,
  title = {Heterogeneous Scientific Foundation Model Collaboration},
  author = {Zihao Li and Jiaru Zou and Feihao Fang and Xuying Ning and Mengting Ai and Tianxin Wei and Sirui Chen and Xiyuan Yang and Jingrui He},
  year = {2026},
  abstract = {Agentic large language model systems have demonstrated strong capabilities. However, their reliance on language as the universal interface fundamentally limits their applicability to many real-world problems, especially in scientific domains where domain-specific foundation models have been developed to address specialized tasks beyond natural language. In this work, we introduce Eywa, a heterogeneous agentic framework designed to extend language-centric systems to a broader class of scientific },
  url = {https://huggingface.co/papers/2604.27351},
  keywords = {agentic framework, domain-specific foundation models, language-model-based reasoning, non-linguistic data modalities, predictive foundation models, multi-agent systems, planning-based orchestration, heterogeneous data modalities, code available, huggingface daily},
  eprint = {2604.27351},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}

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