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When reliable target structures are unavailable at scale or phenotypes arise from dysregulated pathways, transcriptomic perturbations provide a system-level functional readout for drug action. In this work, we formalize…

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Time series generation is critical for a wide range of applications, which greatly supports downstream analytical and decision-making tasks. However, the inherent temporal heterogeneous induced by localized perturbations present significant…

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Flow matching has emerged as a powerful generative framework, with recent few-step methods achieving remarkable inference acceleration. However, we identify a critical yet overlooked limitation: these models suffer from severe diversity…

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