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Latent variable models such as the Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) have become a go-to tool for analyzing biological data, especially in the field of single-cell genomics. One remaining challenge is the interpretability of latent variables…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2023-02-20 Romain Lopez , Nataša Tagasovska , Stephen Ra , Kyunghyn Cho , Jonathan K. Pritchard , Aviv Regev

Token uniformity is commonly observed in transformer-based models, in which different tokens share a large proportion of similar information after going through stacked multiple self-attention layers in a transformer. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Hanqi Yan , Lin Gui , Wenjie Li , Yulan He

In the past few years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs), particularly U-Net, have been the prevailing technique in the medical image processing era. Specifically, the seminal U-Net, as well as its alternatives, have successfully managed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Reza Azad , Mohammad T. AL-Antary , Moein Heidari , Dorit Merhof

Recently, Space-Time Memory Network (STM) based methods have achieved state-of-the-art performance in semi-supervised video object segmentation (VOS). A crucial problem in this task is how to model the dependency both among different frames…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Jianbiao Mei , Mengmeng Wang , Yeneng Lin , Yi Yuan , Yong Liu

Dynamic representation learning plays a pivotal role in understanding the evolution of linguistic content over time. On this front both context and time dynamics as well as their interplay are of prime importance. Current approaches model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Talia Tseriotou , Adam Tsakalidis , Maria Liakata

Missing value problem in spatiotemporal traffic data has long been a challenging topic, in particular for large-scale and high-dimensional data with complex missing mechanisms and diverse degrees of missingness. Recent studies based on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-15 Xinyu Chen , Yixian Chen , Nicolas Saunier , Lijun Sun

Dealing with missing data in data analysis is inevitable. Although powerful imputation methods that address this problem exist, there is still much room for improvement. In this study, we examined single imputation based on deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Najmeh Abiri , Björn Linse , Patrik Edén , Mattias Ohlsson

The alignment of serial-section electron microscopy (ssEM) images is critical for efforts in neuroscience that seek to reconstruct neuronal circuits. However, each ssEM plane contains densely packed structures that vary from one section to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Inwan Yoo , David G. C. Hildebrand , Willie F. Tobin , Wei-Chung Allen Lee , Won-Ki Jeong

Recent developments in spatial omics technologies have enabled the generation of high dimensional molecular data, such as transcriptomes, proteomes, and epigenomes, within their spatial tissue context, either through coprofiling on the same…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-21 Esra Busra Isik , Yusuf Hakan Usta , Haozhe Liu , Maryam Riazi , William Roach , Hongpeng Zhou , Magnus Rattray , Sokratia Georgaka

Recently, deep-learning-based approaches have been widely studied for deformable image registration task. However, most efforts directly map the composite image representation to spatial transformation through the convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-08 Jiashun Chen , Donghuan Lu , Yu Zhang , Dong Wei , Munan Ning , Xinyu Shi , Zhe Xu , Yefeng Zheng

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) enables dissecting cellular heterogeneity in tissues, resulting in numerous biological discoveries. Various computational methods have been devised to delineate cell types by clustering scRNA-seq data…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-09-18 Tram Huynh , Zixuan Cang

This thesis focuses on representation learning for sequence data over time or space, aiming to improve downstream sequence prediction tasks by using the learned representations. Supervised learning has been the most dominant approach for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-02 Qingming Tang

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) enables single-cell transcriptomic profiling, revealing cellular heterogeneity and rare populations. Recent deep learning models like Geneformer and Mouse-Geneformer perform well on tasks such as…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-11 Yuki Nishio , Takayoshi Yamashita , Keita Ito , Tsubasa Hirakawa , Hironobu Fujiyoshi

Recent research shows synthetic data as a source of supervision helps pretrained language models (PLM) transfer learning to new target tasks/domains. However, this idea is less explored for spatial language. We provide two new data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Roshanak Mirzaee , Parisa Kordjamshidi

Transformers are very effective in capturing both global and local correlations within high-energy particle collisions, but they present deployment challenges in high-data-throughput environments, such as the CERN LHC. The quadratic…

Spatial transcriptomics enables spatial gene expression profiling, motivating computational models that capture spatially conditioned regulatory relationships. We introduce SAGE-FM, a lightweight spatial transcriptomics foundation model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Xianghao Zhan , Jingyu Xu , Yuanning Zheng , Zinaida Good , Olivier Gevaert

While pathology foundation models have transformed cancer image analysis, they often lack integration with molecular data at single-cell resolution, limiting their utility for precision oncology. Here, we present PAST, a pan-cancer…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-10 Changchun Yang , Haoyang Li , Yushuai Wu , Yilan Zhang , Yifeng Jiao , Yu Zhang , Rihan Huang , Yuan Cheng , Yuan Qi , Xin Guo , Xin Gao

Recent advances in single cell sequencing and multi-omics techniques have significantly improved our understanding of biological phenomena and our capacity to model them. Despite combined capture of data modalities showing similar progress,…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-13 Marcello Barylli , Joyaditya Saha , Tineke E. Buffart , Jan Koster , Kristiaan J. Lenos , Louis Vermeulen , Vivek M. Sheraton

The ability to perform arithmetic tasks is a remarkable trait of human intelligence and might form a critical component of more complex reasoning tasks. In this work, we investigate if the surface form of a number has any influence on how…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Rodrigo Nogueira , Zhiying Jiang , Jimmy Lin

Being spontaneous, micro-expressions are useful in the inference of a person's true emotions even if an attempt is made to conceal them. Due to their short duration and low intensity, the recognition of micro-expressions is a difficult task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Liangfei Zhang , Xiaopeng Hong , Ognjen Arandjelovic , Guoying Zhao