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arXiv Machine Learning By Dongxia Wu, Mingyu Li, Yuhui Zhang, Anurendra Kumar, Emma Lundberg, Serena Yeung-Levy, Emily B. Fox

PerturbCellRL: Verifier-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Single-Cell Perturbation Prediction

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arXiv:2606. 27752v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Single-cell perturbation models can reduce costly wet-lab screening by predicting how cells respond transcriptionally to interventions.

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