SCALE:Scalable Conditional Atlas-Level Endpoint transport for virtual cell perturbation prediction
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| author | Chen, Shuizhou Yu, Lang Jin, Kedu Zhang, Songming Wu, Hao Huang, Wenxuan Xu, Sheng Qian, Quan Chen, Qin Bai, Lei Sun, Siqi Gao, Zhangyang |
| author_facet | Chen, Shuizhou Yu, Lang Jin, Kedu Zhang, Songming Wu, Hao Huang, Wenxuan Xu, Sheng Qian, Quan Chen, Qin Bai, Lei Sun, Siqi Gao, Zhangyang |
| contents | Virtual cell models aim to enable in silico experimentation by predicting how cells respond to genetic, chemical, or cytokine perturbations from single-cell measurements. In practice, however, large-scale perturbation prediction remains constrained by three coupled bottlenecks: inefficient training and inference pipelines, unstable modeling in high-dimensional sparse expression space, and evaluation protocols that overemphasize reconstruction-like accuracy while underestimating biological fidelity. In this work we present a specialized large-scale foundation model SCALE for virtual cell perturbation prediction that addresses the above limitations jointly. First, we build a BioNeMo-based training and inference framework that substantially improves data throughput, distributed scalability, and deployment efficiency, yielding 12.51* speedup on pretrain and 1.29* on inference over the prior SOTA pipeline under matched system settings. Second, we formulate perturbation prediction as conditional transport and implement it with a set-aware flow architecture that couples LLaMA-based cellular encoding with endpoint-oriented supervision. This design yields more stable training and stronger recovery of perturbation effects. Third, we evaluate the model on Tahoe-100M using a rigorous cell-level protocol centered on biologically meaningful metrics rather than reconstruction alone. On this benchmark, our model improves PDCorr by 12.02% and DE Overlap by 10.66% over STATE. Together, these results suggest that advancing virtual cells requires not only better generative objectives, but also the co-design of scalable infrastructure, stable transport modeling, and biologically faithful evaluation. |
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| spellingShingle | SCALE:Scalable Conditional Atlas-Level Endpoint transport for virtual cell perturbation prediction Chen, Shuizhou Yu, Lang Jin, Kedu Zhang, Songming Wu, Hao Huang, Wenxuan Xu, Sheng Qian, Quan Chen, Qin Bai, Lei Sun, Siqi Gao, Zhangyang Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Quantitative Methods Virtual cell models aim to enable in silico experimentation by predicting how cells respond to genetic, chemical, or cytokine perturbations from single-cell measurements. In practice, however, large-scale perturbation prediction remains constrained by three coupled bottlenecks: inefficient training and inference pipelines, unstable modeling in high-dimensional sparse expression space, and evaluation protocols that overemphasize reconstruction-like accuracy while underestimating biological fidelity. In this work we present a specialized large-scale foundation model SCALE for virtual cell perturbation prediction that addresses the above limitations jointly. First, we build a BioNeMo-based training and inference framework that substantially improves data throughput, distributed scalability, and deployment efficiency, yielding 12.51* speedup on pretrain and 1.29* on inference over the prior SOTA pipeline under matched system settings. Second, we formulate perturbation prediction as conditional transport and implement it with a set-aware flow architecture that couples LLaMA-based cellular encoding with endpoint-oriented supervision. This design yields more stable training and stronger recovery of perturbation effects. Third, we evaluate the model on Tahoe-100M using a rigorous cell-level protocol centered on biologically meaningful metrics rather than reconstruction alone. On this benchmark, our model improves PDCorr by 12.02% and DE Overlap by 10.66% over STATE. Together, these results suggest that advancing virtual cells requires not only better generative objectives, but also the co-design of scalable infrastructure, stable transport modeling, and biologically faithful evaluation. |
| title | SCALE:Scalable Conditional Atlas-Level Endpoint transport for virtual cell perturbation prediction |
| topic | Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Quantitative Methods |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.17380 |