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New diffusion model scTREAT predicts single-cell drug responses

Researchers have developed scTREAT, a novel diffusion framework designed for predicting single-cell drug responses. This model effectively separates cellular background from drug-specific information, achieving state-of-the-art results on the Tahoe-100M dataset for predicting responses to unseen cell line-drug combinations and unseen drugs. The framework utilizes a shared latent expression space and a Guided Decomposable Attention mechanism to integrate baseline cellular states and dose-conditioned molecular embeddings, demonstrating significant improvements over existing methods. AI

IMPACT This research advances AI's application in drug discovery by improving the prediction of cellular responses to various drugs.

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New diffusion model scTREAT predicts single-cell drug responses

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Zhaokang Liang, Shuyang Zhuang, Xiaoran Jiao, Weian Mao, Hao Chen, Chunhua Shen ·

    scTREAT: Latent Diffusion for Single-Cell Drug-Response Prediction

    arXiv:2510.11726v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generating drug-induced transcriptional responses requires a model to account for cellular background together with molecular identity and dose. We present scTREAT, the first diffusion framework to factorize state and drug…