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| author | Yan, Xichen Zang, Zelin Chi, Changxi Zhou, Jingbo Yu, Chang Wu, Jinlin Cheng, Shenghui Yang, Fuji Luo, Jiebo Lei, Zhen Li, Stan Z. |
| author_facet | Yan, Xichen Zang, Zelin Chi, Changxi Zhou, Jingbo Yu, Chang Wu, Jinlin Cheng, Shenghui Yang, Fuji Luo, Jiebo Lei, Zhen Li, Stan Z. |
| contents | A critical challenge in single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) integration is resolving the tension between eliminating batch effects and maintaining biological fidelity. While recent evidence indicates that batch effects manifest heterogeneously across genes, most existing methods process the transcriptome uniformly, frequently resulting in over-correction and loss of subtle biological signals. To address this, we present scHelix, a dataset-adaptive framework that fundamentally changes how features are processed by explicitly partitioning genes into domain-invariant Anchors and domain-sensitive Variants at the input level. scHelix utilizes a dual-stream sparse diffusion encoder equipped with stop-gradient graph caching to efficiently learn multi-scale structural representations. The core of our approach is a novel asymmetric Align-Refine-Fuse protocol: the unstable Variant stream is first aligned to the robust topology of the Anchor stream, followed by a conservative refinement phase where the Anchor stream absorbs denoised details via bounded residual gating. This divide-and-conquer architecture prevents shortcut learning and ensures robust batch removal without compromising the integrity of biological clusters. Extensive benchmarking demonstrates that scHelix outperforms state-of-the-art methods. |
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| publishDate | 2026 |
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| spellingShingle | scHelix: Asymmetric Dual-Stream Integration via Explicit Gene-Level Disentanglement Yan, Xichen Zang, Zelin Chi, Changxi Zhou, Jingbo Yu, Chang Wu, Jinlin Cheng, Shenghui Yang, Fuji Luo, Jiebo Lei, Zhen Li, Stan Z. Machine Learning A critical challenge in single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) integration is resolving the tension between eliminating batch effects and maintaining biological fidelity. While recent evidence indicates that batch effects manifest heterogeneously across genes, most existing methods process the transcriptome uniformly, frequently resulting in over-correction and loss of subtle biological signals. To address this, we present scHelix, a dataset-adaptive framework that fundamentally changes how features are processed by explicitly partitioning genes into domain-invariant Anchors and domain-sensitive Variants at the input level. scHelix utilizes a dual-stream sparse diffusion encoder equipped with stop-gradient graph caching to efficiently learn multi-scale structural representations. The core of our approach is a novel asymmetric Align-Refine-Fuse protocol: the unstable Variant stream is first aligned to the robust topology of the Anchor stream, followed by a conservative refinement phase where the Anchor stream absorbs denoised details via bounded residual gating. This divide-and-conquer architecture prevents shortcut learning and ensures robust batch removal without compromising the integrity of biological clusters. Extensive benchmarking demonstrates that scHelix outperforms state-of-the-art methods. |
| title | scHelix: Asymmetric Dual-Stream Integration via Explicit Gene-Level Disentanglement |
| topic | Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18576 |