SCALE:Scalable Conditional Atlas-Level Endpoint transport for virtual cell perturbation prediction

SCALE is a conditional transport model that treats cells as unordered sets to predict treated cell populations without requiring cell-level matching. It uses a shared set-aware encoder and a conditional DiT backbone to learn latent transport, enabling endpoint supervision that is directly delta-aligned. Across diverse perturbation types—including genetic, chemical, developmental, and immune—SCALE accurately recovers gene‑expression changes, response directions, and population structure, outperforming competing methods on CRISPR data and successfully prioritizing cytokines that elicit distinct immune responses.

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