arXiv:2606. 07676v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spatial transcriptomics (ST) is a powerful tool for exploring biological properties dependent on structure, proximity, and interaction in tissue.
By Joseph Boyd, Matthew Lyon, Martino Mansoldo, Christian Hurry, Finnian Firth
arXiv:2605.07938v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Single-cell representation learning (SCRL) from gene expression data offers a way to uncover the complex regulatory logic underlying cellular funct...
By Sachini Weerasekara, Natasha Darras, Sagar Kamarthi, Colles Price, Jacqueline Isaacs
arXiv:2606. 09558v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Motivation: Transformer-based models are increasingly applied to large-scale single-cell transcriptomics, showing strong performance through self-supervised learning on millions of cells.
By Mikele Milia, Louis Fabrice Tshimanga, Henning Mueller, Manfredo Atzori, Barbara Di Camillo
arXiv:2606. 07760v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding cellular phenotypes and how they respond to perturbations is critical for disease biology and therapeutic design.
By Alma Andersson, Aya Abdelsalam Ismail, Edward De Brouwer, Doron Haviv, Tommaso Biancalani, Kyunghyun Cho, Gabriele Scalia, A\"icha BenTaieb, Hector Corrada Bravo
The paper introduces scKITE, a single-cell foundation model that incorporates biological knowledge—cell-level text annotations and gene-level regulatory information—into a shared Transformer encoder via lightweight auxiliary decoders used only during pretraining. This approach provides a new scaling dimension beyond merely increasing data size, enabling the model to achieve superior performance on diverse downstream tasks with only 179,067 pretraining samples, less than 0.5% of the data used by previous strong scFMs. The study demonstrates that knowledge-enhanced pretraining can yield significant gains while reducing computational cost.
By Hanqing Zhang, Jie Bao, Mei Ma, Shuai Liu, Jiaying Ma, Jiaguan Liu, Jiaxiao Li, Zhenbo Li, Wenwen Gong, Zhijun Ca
CellMSA introduces a novel single‑cell representation learning framework that leverages a multiple‑sequence‑alignment‑inspired context model. For each target cell, it retrieves relevant cells across batches and related cell types, summarizing cross‑cell patterns into a context‑dependent gene‑pair representation that is fed into a pair‑aware encoder. Pretraining on a massive human single‑cell corpus (≈109 million cells) and subsequent benchmarks demonstrate consistent performance gains over existing methods.
By Suyuan Zhao, Minghao Liu, Yizhen Luo, Zaiqing Nie
arXiv:2607. 22712v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Single-cell light microscopy images have become an important data source for characterizing cell phenotypes, but their complexity and heterogeneity pose challenges to high-throughput automated analysis.
By Yifan Shang (Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China), Jiahui Tan (College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China), Xiangxiang Zeng (College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China), Renjie Zhou (Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China)
arXiv:2609.36429v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Predicting gene expression from H&E-stained histology images offers a scalable alternative to costly spatial transcriptomics, yet most existing methods...
By Zijun Gao, Chunbin Gu, Jinxi Xiang, Xiangde Luo, Pheng-Ann Heng
The paper introduces scTrilemma, a latent-bottleneck variational autoencoder designed to address the representation trilemma in single‑cell RNA‑seq data: preserving biological identity and state, remaining robust to nuisance context, and retaining gene‑level variation for expression analysis. scTrilemma routes expression‑derived variation to the embedding, decoder, or prior, gating gene tokens by expression and conditioning the prior on unlabeled pseudo‑bulk context, all under a single reconstruction objective without target annotations. In zero‑shot evaluations on successive CZ CELLxGENE Census releases, scTrilemma simultaneously satisfies all three demands, maintaining biological state, differential‑expression, and pathway structure across multiple disease settings, and latent interventions show context can be removed with minimal impact on other demands.
By Yunhak Oh, Yoonho Lee, Junseok Lee, Namkyeong Lee, Sang-Yeon Hwang, Yinhua Piao, Hyomin Kim, Seonghwan Kim, Jaechang Lim, Woo Youn Kim, Sungsoo Ahn, Chanyoung Park
arXiv:2608.07632v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Image-based profiling captures rich phenotypic signatures for drug discovery and functional genomics. Large public datasets like JUMP Cell Pa...
By Al\'an F. Mu\~noz, Johan Fredin Haslum, Runxi Shen, Anne E. Carpenter, Shantanu Singh
OmniFusion is an end‑to‑end multilingual multimodal translation system that fuses a pretrained multimodal foundation model (Omni 2.5‑7B) with a translation large language model (SeedX PPO‑7B). By connecting hidden states from multiple layers of the multimodal model to the translation LLM, OmniFusion can translate speech, speech‑and‑image, and text‑and‑image inputs while reducing simultaneous speech‑translation latency by about one second compared to cascaded pipelines. The approach improves overall translation quality by leveraging both audio and visual context.
By Sai Koneru, Matthias Huck, Jan Niehues
arXiv:2606. 02424v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Histology-based single-cell spatial transcriptomics (ST) estimation aims to predict gene expression for individual cells from histopathological images and cell locations, reducing the need for costly single-cell ST measurements.
By Kaito Shiku, Ahtisham Fazeel Abbasi, Ryoma Bise, Yuichiro Iwashita, Kazuya Nishimura, Andreas Dengel, Muhammad Nabeel Asim