Paper List
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GOPHER: Optimization-based Phenotype Randomization for Genome-Wide Association Studies with Differential Privacy
This paper addresses the core challenge of balancing rigorous privacy protection with data utility when releasing full GWAS summary statistics, overco...
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Real-time Cricket Sorting By Sex A low-cost embedded solution using YOLOv8 and Raspberry Pi
This paper addresses the critical bottleneck in industrial insect farming: the lack of automated, real-time sex sorting systems for Acheta domesticus ...
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Training Dynamics of Learning 3D-Rotational Equivariance
This work addresses the core dilemma of whether to use computationally expensive equivariant architectures or faster symmetry-agnostic models with dat...
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Fast and Accurate Node-Age Estimation Under Fossil Calibration Uncertainty Using the Adjusted Pairwise Likelihood
This paper addresses the dual challenge of computational inefficiency and sensitivity to fossil calibration errors in Bayesian divergence time estimat...
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Few-shot Protein Fitness Prediction via In-context Learning and Test-time Training
This paper addresses the core challenge of accurately predicting protein fitness with only a handful of experimental observations, where data collecti...
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scCluBench: Comprehensive Benchmarking of Clustering Algorithms for Single-Cell RNA Sequencing
This paper addresses the critical gap of fragmented and non-standardized benchmarking in single-cell RNA-seq clustering, which hinders objective compa...
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Simulation and inference methods for non-Markovian stochastic biochemical reaction networks
This paper addresses the computational bottleneck of simulating and performing Bayesian inference for non-Markovian biochemical systems with history-d...
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Assessment of Simulation-based Inference Methods for Stochastic Compartmental Models
This paper addresses the core challenge of performing accurate Bayesian parameter inference for stochastic epidemic models when the likelihood functio...
SpikGPT: A High-Accuracy and Interpretable Spiking Attention Framework for Single-Cell Annotation
Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University | Department of Surgery, Duke University
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IN SHORT: This paper addresses the core challenge of robust single-cell annotation across heterogeneous datasets with batch effects and the critical need to identify previously unseen cell populations.
核心创新
- Methodology First integration of spiking neural networks with transformer architecture for single-cell analysis, using Leaky Integrate-and-Fire (LIF) neurons in a multi-head Spiking Self-Attention mechanism for energy-efficient computation.
- Methodology Novel two-step embedding expansion strategy: repeating cell embeddings along feature channels (default m=300) and temporal dimensions (default T=4) to enhance representation richness and training stability.
- Biology Confidence-based rejection mechanism that successfully identifies 97% of unseen 'alpha cells' as 'Unknown' in pancreas datasets, enabling robust detection of novel cell types absent from training data.
主要结论
- SpikGPT achieves accuracy of 0.991 on SAHR dataset and 0.920 on HLCA dataset, outperforming or matching 8 benchmark methods including scGPT, CCA, and scPred.
- The model demonstrates superior robustness to batch effects, maintaining macro F1-score of 0.711 on heterogeneous HLCA data where traditional methods like SingleR drop to 0.207 F1-score.
- SpikGPT successfully identifies 97% of unseen 'alpha cells' as 'Unknown' using confidence thresholding (p<0.05), enabling reliable detection of novel cell populations.
摘要: Accurate and scalable cell type annotation remains a challenge in single-cell transcriptomics, especially when datasets exhibit strong batch effects or contain previously unseen cell populations. Here we introduce SpikGPT, a hybrid deep learning framework that integrates scGPT-derived cell embeddings with a spiking Transformer architecture to achieve efficient and robust annotation. scGPT provides biologically informed dense representations of each cell, which are further processed by a multi-head Spiking Self-Attention mechanism, energy-efficient feature extraction. Across multiple benchmark datasets, SpikGPT consistently matches or exceeds the performance of leading annotation tools. Notably, SpikGPT uniquely identifies unseen cell types by assigning low-confidence predictions to an 'Unknown' category, allowing accurate rejection of cell states absent from the training reference. Together, these results demonstrate that SpikGPT is a versatile and reliable annotation tool capable of generalizing across datasets, resolving complex cellular heterogeneity, and facilitating discovery of novel or disease-associated cell populations.