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scTranslation: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Single-Cell Multi-Omics Modality Translation

arXiv:2606. 03906v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simultaneous measurement of multiple omics modalities in single cells enables researchers to gain a more comprehensive understanding of cellular states and regulatory mechanisms.

arXiv AI

Jun 9

Single-Cell Cross-Modal Transfer by Adversarial Fine-Tuning of Foundation Models

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

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 9

Integrating gene regulatory priors into Transformer attention with scTransformer for interpretable scRNA-seq analysis

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

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 9

scCBGM: Interpretable Single-Cell Counterfactual Editing

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

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arXiv AI

Jul 28

scMIR: a vision-language foundation model for single-cell light microscopy image representation

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)

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arXiv AI

Jun 2

GC-MoE: Genomics-Guided Cell-Type-Specific Mixture of Experts for Histology-Based Single-Cell Spatial Transcriptomics

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

arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 2

Prior-Guided Multi-Omic Transformers for Single-Cell Gene Regulatory Network Inference

arXiv:2606. 00685v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Gene regulatory networks (GRNs) capture transcription factor-target interactions and are central to understanding cell-state regulation and disease.

By Tianyang Xu, Tianci Liu, Niraj Rayamajhi, Ryan Patrick, Kranthi Varala, Ying Li, Jing Gao

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arXiv AI

Jul 13

TheBioCollection: Unified Pre-Training Scale LLM Corpus for Biology

arXiv:2607. 08803v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The push toward large language models for biology (BioLM) has created a need for training corpora that can endow models with a genuine understanding of biology.

By Hyunjin Seo, Hyeon Hwang, Gyubok Lee, Jay Shin, Jimin Park, Taesoo Kim, Sanghoon Lee, Hongjoon Ahn, Sungjun Han, Sangwon Jung

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arXiv AI

Jun 15

CisTransCell: Single-Cell Perturbation Prediction via Gene Function, Regulatory Control, and Cellular Context

arXiv:2606. 13713v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Predicting cellular transcriptional responses to genetic perturbations is a central problem in single-cell biology, especially in the zero-shot setting where the perturbed gene or gene combination is unseen during training.

By Wei Zhang, Xun Jiang, Yuesi Xi, Ming Tang

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 3

scBatchProx: Federated-Inspired Refinement for Stable Cell-Type Discriminability under Heterogeneous Batch Compositions

arXiv:2602. 00423v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Single-cell integration workflows often construct low-dimensional cell embeddings and then refine them with post-hoc methods to reduce batch effects.

By Quang-Huy Nguyen, Jiaqi Wang, Wei-Shinn Ku

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 9

Scaling Laws for Masked-Reconstruction Transformers on Single-Cell Transcriptomics

arXiv:2602. 15253v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Neural scaling laws -- power-law relationships between loss, model size, and data -- have been extensively documented for language and vision transformers, yet their existence in single-cell genomics remains largely unexplored.

By Ihor Kendiukhov

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arXiv Machine Learning

Aug 4

Beyond Gene Reconstruction: Learning Cell Representations through Complementary Transcriptomic Views

arXiv:2608. 00985v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid growth of single-cell transcriptomic data has enabled the development of foundation models pretrained primarily by reconstructing masked expression values.

By Jiaqi Xiong, Yuntao hu, Yu Zheng, Yifei Shi, Xinyue Guo, Jiaxin Qi

arXiv AI

Jun 4

You Only Train Once: Differentiable Subset Selection for Omics Data

arXiv:2512. 17678v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Selecting compact and informative gene subsets from single-cell transcriptomic data is essential for biomarker discovery, improving interpretability, and cost-effective profiling.

By Daphn\'e Chopard, Jorge da Silva Gon\c{c}alves, Irene Cannistraci, Thomas M. Sutter, Julia E. Vogt

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