Paper List
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The Effective Reproduction Number in the Kermack-McKendrick model with age of infection and reinfection
This paper addresses the challenge of accurately estimating the time-varying effective reproduction number ℛ(t) in epidemics by incorporating two crit...
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Covering Relations in the Poset of Combinatorial Neural Codes
This work addresses the core challenge of navigating the complex poset structure of neural codes to systematically test the conjecture linking convex ...
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Collective adsorption of pheromones at the water-air interface
This paper addresses the core challenge of understanding how amphiphilic pheromones, previously assumed to be transported in the gas phase, can be sta...
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pHapCompass: Probabilistic Assembly and Uncertainty Quantification of Polyploid Haplotype Phase
This paper addresses the core challenge of accurately assembling polyploid haplotypes from sequencing data, where read assignment ambiguity and an exp...
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Setting up for failure: automatic discovery of the neural mechanisms of cognitive errors
This paper addresses the core challenge of automating the discovery of biologically plausible recurrent neural network (RNN) dynamics that can replica...
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Influence of Object Affordance on Action Language Understanding: Evidence from Dynamic Causal Modeling Analysis
This study addresses the core challenge of moving beyond correlational evidence to establish the *causal direction* and *temporal dynamics* of how obj...
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Revealing stimulus-dependent dynamics through statistical complexity
This paper addresses the core challenge of detecting stimulus-specific patterns in neural population dynamics that remain hidden to traditional variab...
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Exactly Solvable Population Model with Square-Root Growth Noise and Cell-Size Regulation
This paper addresses the fundamental gap in understanding how microscopic growth fluctuations, specifically those with size-dependent (square-root) no...
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.