S1-Omni: A Unified Multimodal Reasoning Model for Scientific Understanding, Prediction, and Generation
AuthorsJiahao Zhao, Junyi Liu, Lifeng Xu, Nan Xu, Qingli Wang, Qingxiao Li, Tianle Chen, Xiaoyu Wu, Yawen Zheng, Zikai Wang, Guanming Liu, Hequn Zhou, Jingyi Wang, Jingyuan Shu, Keqi Wang, Li He, Songyang Diao, Wenhui Xu, Xinyu Ren, Yaqin Fan, Yujin Zhou, Zhanao Yao
Resources
S1-Omni aims to be a general-purpose scientific AI model that understands and generates everything from molecules and proteins to spectra and scientific images.
Key results
The training corpus contains more than 8 million scientific reasoning and supervision records.
S1-Omni-Corpus spans 200 scientific tasks.
The general-purpose-model comparison aggregates 66 tasks across six scientific categories.
S1-Omni's aggregate task-level win rate against GPT-5.5.
Exact molecular-structure accuracy achieved by S1-Omni.
S1-Omni's image-translation score in decibels on SynthRAD2025.
What the paper found
S1-Omni, developed by ScienceOne AI and Wenge AI, targets the fragmentation of AI for Science by combining multimodal understanding, evidence-grounded reasoning, and domain-native prediction or generation in one system. Built on the S1-VL-32B backbone, it represents text, CIF crystal files, SMILES, protein sequences, spectra, and scientific images in a shared task context, while specialized decoders preserve scalar, residue-level, molecular, geometric, and visual output constraints. Its S1-Omni-Corpus contains more than 8 million records across 200 scientific tasks, with reasoning supervision structured around scientific laws, expert evidence, validation rules, and output protocols. Across 66 aggregate tasks, S1-Omni achieves win rates of 95.5% against GPT-5.5 and 83.3% against Gemini-3.1-Pro, outperforming general-purpose models while remaining competitive with specialists such as AlphaFold 3, ESM3, and DiffSpectra. In spectrum-to-molecule generation on QM9S, it reaches 0.4569 Acc@1 versus 0.4056 for DiffSpectra; its protein-site decoder reaches 0.666 AUPR on MPBind; and its scientific image editor achieves 47.87 dB PSNR on SynthRAD2025. Ablations show that structured, property-constrained reasoning is substantially more useful than unconstrained chain-of-thought, reducing material MAE to 17.255 from 34.818. The authors emphasize that the model is an intermediate unified architecture: its backbone is shared, but molecular, protein-coordinate, and image outputs still rely on specialized decoders, and substantial gaps remain on tasks requiring explicit three-dimensional or domain-specific priors.
Original abstract
We present S1-Omni, a unified multimodal reasoning model for scientific understanding, prediction, and generation. AI for Science (AI4S) has advanced significantly through domain-specific models, tool-augmented LLMs, and scientific language models. However, model capabilities remain highly fragmented, limiting the joint modeling of heterogeneous data, scientific laws, and expert knowledge. S1-Omni addresses this gap by consolidating these capabilities into a single, coherent scientific reasoning model. The architecture of S1-Omni is built upon three core components: unified representation of scientific data, natural-world knowledge alignment, and decoding for domain-specific tasks. First, S1-Omni maps natural-language instructions and scientific objects, including CIF, SMILES, protein sequences, spectra, and scientific images, into a shared representation space. Second, it incorporates scientific laws and expert knowledge into data construction and training, enabling the model to reason from scientific evidence. Third, it performs task-specific decoding to support a broad range of applications, including property prediction, spectrum-to-molecular generation, protein site and structure prediction, and scientific image generation and editing. S1-Omni is trained on S1-Omni-Corpus, which covers 200 scientific tasks and contains millions of reasoning samples, and is evaluated on over 60 scientific benchmarks. It outperforms GPT-5.5 and Gemini-3.1-Pro on most benchmarks and matches or surpasses domain-specific models on several benchmarks. Overall, S1-Omni provides a practical path toward unified scientific modeling.
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