arXiv AI By Yaodi Luo, Peize He, Bowen Han, Lingbei Mengg

Making Single-Cell Data Distillation Auditable: Traceable Real-Cell Coresets via Discrete Min-Max Selection

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arXiv:2607. 19426v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Single-cell datasets are increasingly costly to store, audit, and reuse for model training.

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