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Auteurs principaux: Jones, Charles, Noutahi, Emmanuel, Hartford, Jason, Eastwood, Cian
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Publié: 2026
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Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26790
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author Jones, Charles
Noutahi, Emmanuel
Hartford, Jason
Eastwood, Cian
author_facet Jones, Charles
Noutahi, Emmanuel
Hartford, Jason
Eastwood, Cian
contents Flow-matching generative models are increasingly used to simulate cell responses to biological perturbations. However, the design space for building such models is large and underexplored. We systematically analyse the design space of flow matching models for cell-microscopy images, finding that many popular techniques are unnecessary and can even hurt performance. We develop a simple, stable, and scalable recipe which we use to train our foundation model. We scale our model to two orders of magnitude larger than prior methods, achieving a two-fold FID and ten-fold KID improvement over prior methods. We then fine-tune our model with pre-trained molecular embeddings to achieve state-of-the-art performance simulating responses to unseen molecules. Code is available at https://github.com/valence-labs/microscopy-flow-matching
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spellingShingle Elucidating the Design Space of Flow Matching for Cellular Microscopy
Jones, Charles
Noutahi, Emmanuel
Hartford, Jason
Eastwood, Cian
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Flow-matching generative models are increasingly used to simulate cell responses to biological perturbations. However, the design space for building such models is large and underexplored. We systematically analyse the design space of flow matching models for cell-microscopy images, finding that many popular techniques are unnecessary and can even hurt performance. We develop a simple, stable, and scalable recipe which we use to train our foundation model. We scale our model to two orders of magnitude larger than prior methods, achieving a two-fold FID and ten-fold KID improvement over prior methods. We then fine-tune our model with pre-trained molecular embeddings to achieve state-of-the-art performance simulating responses to unseen molecules. Code is available at https://github.com/valence-labs/microscopy-flow-matching
title Elucidating the Design Space of Flow Matching for Cellular Microscopy
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26790