Paper List
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Autonomous Agents Coordinating Distributed Discovery Through Emergent Artifact Exchange
This paper addresses the fundamental limitation of current AI-assisted scientific research by enabling truly autonomous, decentralized investigation w...
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D-MEM: Dopamine-Gated Agentic Memory via Reward Prediction Error Routing
This paper addresses the fundamental scalability bottleneck in LLM agentic memory systems: the O(N²) computational complexity and unbounded API token ...
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Countershading coloration in blue shark skin emerges from hierarchically organized and spatially tuned photonic architectures inside skin denticles
This paper solves the core problem of how blue sharks achieve their striking dorsoventral countershading camouflage, revealing that coloration origina...
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Human-like Object Grouping in Self-supervised Vision Transformers
This paper addresses the core challenge of quantifying how well self-supervised vision models capture human-like object grouping in natural scenes, br...
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Hierarchical pp-Adic Framework for Gene Regulatory Networks: Theory and Stability Analysis
This paper addresses the core challenge of mathematically capturing the inherent hierarchical organization and multi-scale stability of gene regulator...
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Towards unified brain-to-text decoding across speech production and perception
This paper addresses the core challenge of developing a unified brain-to-text decoding framework that works across both speech production and percepti...
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Dual-Laws Model for a theory of artificial consciousness
This paper addresses the core challenge of developing a comprehensive, testable theory of consciousness that bridges biological and artificial systems...
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Pulse desynchronization of neural populations by targeting the centroid of the limit cycle in phase space
This work addresses the core challenge of determining optimal pulse timing and intensity for desynchronizing pathological neural oscillations when the...
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.