Paper List
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Macroscopic Dominance from Microscopic Extremes: Symmetry Breaking in Spatial Competition
This paper addresses the fundamental question of how microscopic stochastic advantages in spatial exploration translate into macroscopic resource domi...
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Linear Readout of Neural Manifolds with Continuous Variables
This paper addresses the core challenge of quantifying how the geometric structure of high-dimensional neural population activity (neural manifolds) d...
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Theory of Cell Body Lensing and Phototaxis Sign Reversal in “Eyeless” Mutants of Chlamydomonas
This paper solves the core puzzle of how eyeless mutants of Chlamydomonas exhibit reversed phototaxis by quantitatively modeling the competition betwe...
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Cross-Species Transfer Learning for Electrophysiology-to-Transcriptomics Mapping in Cortical GABAergic Interneurons
This paper addresses the challenge of predicting transcriptomic identity from electrophysiological recordings in human cortical interneurons, where li...
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Uncovering statistical structure in large-scale neural activity with Restricted Boltzmann Machines
This paper addresses the core challenge of modeling large-scale neural population activity (1500-2000 neurons) with interpretable higher-order interac...
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Realizing Common Random Numbers: Event-Keyed Hashing for Causally Valid Stochastic Models
This paper addresses the critical problem that standard stateful PRNG implementations in agent-based models violate causal validity by making random d...
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A Standardized Framework for Evaluating Gene Expression Generative Models
This paper addresses the critical lack of standardized evaluation protocols for single-cell gene expression generative models, where inconsistent metr...
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Single Molecule Localization Microscopy Challenge: A Biologically Inspired Benchmark for Long-Sequence Modeling
This paper addresses the core challenge of evaluating state-space models on biologically realistic, sparse, and stochastic temporal processes, which a...
Cross-Species Antimicrobial Resistance Prediction from Genomic Foundation Models
Department of Computer Science, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University
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IN SHORT: This paper addresses the core challenge of predicting antimicrobial resistance across phylogenetically distinct bacterial species, where traditional methods fail due to reliance on species-specific genomic shortcuts rather than transferable resistance mechanisms.
核心创新
- Methodology Developed diagnostic-driven layer selection for genomic foundation models, identifying Layer 10 in Evo-1-8k-base as the deepest jointly stable extraction point through activation scale, isotropy, effective rank, and cross-seed stability analysis.
- Methodology Introduced MiniRocket-based local pattern preservation for embedding aggregation, treating per-window embeddings as ordered multivariate signals to preserve sparse cassette-scale resistance signals that global pooling dilutes.
- Biology Established the mechanism-mix hypothesis: cross-species AMR prediction performance depends on whether resistance is cassette-mediated (transferable) or chromosomal/diffuse (species-specific), not just aggregation method.
主要结论
- MiniRocket aggregation with k-NN classifier achieved MCC=0.753 on cross-species validation (val_outside), substantially outperforming global pooling (F1=0.982 vs 0.901 for k-NN), while Kover baseline collapsed from within-species F1~0.68 to cross-species F1=0.02.
- Cross-species performance is mechanism-dependent: MiniRocket excels when cassette-mediated resistance predominates (e.g., plasmid-borne β-lactamases), while global pooling remains competitive for chromosomal/diffuse mechanisms.
- Layer 10 embeddings from Evo-1-8k-base provide optimal stability, with sharp degradation beyond Layer 11 evidenced by isotropy collapse (angular diversity peaks at L9-L10) and effective rank compression at L11.
摘要: Cross-species antimicrobial resistance (AMR) prediction is fundamentally an out-of-distribution generalization problem: models trained on one set of bacterial taxa must transfer to phylogenetically distinct genomes that may rely on different resistance mechanisms. Critically, resistance is not monolithic. Across species, it arises from a heterogeneous mixture of localized, horizontally transferred gene cassettes and diffuse, species-specific genomic backgrounds, making successful transfer inherently mechanism-dependent. Using a strict species holdout protocol, we first establish an interpretable k-mer baseline with Kover, showing that strong within-species performance collapses under true cross-species evaluation. This motivates the need for representation-level choices that explicitly preserve transferable biological signals rather than amplify phylogenetic shortcuts. We introduce two ingredients that make genomic foundation model embeddings effective for cross-species AMR prediction. First, for layer selection, we develop diagnostics for activation scale, isotropy, effective rank, and cross-seed stability under native bfloat16 inference. These reveal a sharp stability boundary at Layer 11 in Evo-1-8k-base, identifying Layer 10 as the deepest jointly stable layer; extracting embeddings here improves downstream conditioning, reproducibility, and robustness. Second, for feature aggregation, we argue that global pooling obscures localized resistance mechanisms. Instead, we treat per-window embeddings as an ordered multivariate signal and apply MiniRocket to summarize multi-scale local activation patterns. This preserves cassette-scale signals (e.g., plasmid-borne β-lactamases) that global averages dilute, reorganizing feature space toward phenotype-aligned neighborhoods where simple classifiers can generalize across species. On ampicillin resistance across 3,388 genomes from 126 species, we show that cross-species performance depends on which resistance mechanisms dominate the held-out species, not on aggregation method alone. MiniRocket excels when cassette-mediated resistance predominates; Global Pooling remains competitive for chromosomal or diffuse mechanisms. Both approaches perform similarly under same-species evaluation. Beyond accuracy, MiniRocket enables zero-training aggregation, interpretable predictions via neighbor auditing, and biological validation through mechanism-based clustering. Unlike complex decision boundaries learned by gradient boosting, k-NN exposes the underlying geometric reorganization that explains when and why local pattern preservation succeeds: reduced phylogenetic hubness and increased cross-species mechanism sharing. Together, our results establish aggregation choice as a central axis in cross-species AMR prediction and provide a reproducible, diagnostic-driven framework for deploying genomic foundation models under distribution shift.