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Spatial profiling technologies in biology, such as imaging mass cytometry (IMC) and spatial transcriptomics (ST), generate high-dimensional, multi-channel data with strong spatial alignment and complex inter-channel relationships.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Haoran Zhang , Mingyuan Zhou , Wesley Tansey

Spatial Transcriptomics is a novel technology that aligns histology images with spatially resolved gene expression profiles. Although groundbreaking, it struggles with gene capture yielding high corruption in acquired data. Given potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Gabriel Mejia , Daniela Ruiz , Paula Cárdenas , Leonardo Manrique , Daniela Vega , Pablo Arbeláez

Causality -- referring to temporal, uni-directional cause-effect relationships between components -- underlies many complex generative processes, including videos, language, and robot trajectories. Current causal diffusion models entangle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Xingjian Bai , Guande He , Zhengqi Li , Eli Shechtman , Xun Huang , Zongze Wu

Spatial Transcriptomics (ST) allows a high-resolution measurement of RNA sequence abundance by systematically connecting cell morphology depicted in Hematoxylin and Eosin (H&E) stained histology images to spatially resolved gene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Sichen Zhu , Yuchen Zhu , Molei Tao , Peng Qiu

Score-based Generative Models (SGMs) have demonstrated exceptional synthesis outcomes across various tasks. However, the current design landscape of the forward diffusion process remains largely untapped and often relies on physical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Kushagra Pandey , Stephan Mandt

Accurate forecasting of spatiotemporal data remains challenging due to complex spatial dependencies and temporal dynamics. The inherent uncertainty and variability in such data often render deterministic models insufficient, prompting a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Mingze Gong , Lei Chen , Jia Li

We develop a novel approach towards causal inference. Rather than structural equations over a causal graph, we learn stochastic differential equations (SDEs) whose stationary densities model a system's behavior under interventions. These…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Lars Lorch , Andreas Krause , Bernhard Schölkopf

Spatial Transcriptomics enables mapping of gene expression within its native tissue context, but current platforms measure only a limited set of genes due to experimental constraints and excessive costs. To overcome this, computational…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-20 Amit Kumar , Maninder Kaur , Raghvendra Mall , Sukrit Gupta

Perturbation screens hold the potential to systematically map regulatory processes at single-cell resolution, yet modeling and predicting transcriptome-wide responses to perturbations remains a major computational challenge. Existing…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-26 Lars Lorch , Jiaqi Zhang , Charlotte Bunne , Andreas Krause , Bernhard Schölkopf , Caroline Uhler

Understanding causal relationships within Gene Regulatory Networks (GRNs) is essential for unraveling the gene interactions in cellular processes. However, causal discovery in GRNs is a challenging problem for multiple reasons including the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Trang Nguyen , Alexander Tong , Kanika Madan , Yoshua Bengio , Dianbo Liu

Spatial Transcriptomics (ST) provides spatially resolved gene expression profiles within intact tissue architecture, enabling molecular analysis in histological context. However, the high cost, limited throughput, and restricted data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yaoyu Fang , Jiahe Qian , Xinkun Wang , Lee A. Cooper , Bo Zhou

Spatial Transcriptomics is a groundbreaking technology that integrates histology images with spatially resolved gene expression profiles. Among the various Spatial Transcriptomics techniques available, Visium has emerged as the most widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Daniela Ruiz , Paula Cárdenas , Leonardo Manrique , Daniela Vega , Gabriel M. Mejia , Pablo Arbeláez

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data are important for studying the laws of life at single-cell level. However, it is still challenging to obtain enough high-quality scRNA-seq data. To mitigate the limited availability of data,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-06 Erpai Luo , Minsheng Hao , Lei Wei , Xuegong Zhang

Spatial Transcriptomics (ST) offers spatially resolved gene expression but remains costly. Predicting expression directly from widely available Hematoxylin and Eosin (H&E) stained images presents a cost-effective alternative. However, most…

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Gene expression depends on thousands of factors and we usually only have access to tens or hundreds of observations of gene expression levels meaning we are in a high-dimensional setting. Additionally we don't always observe or care about…

Applications · Statistics 2017-04-04 Emiliano Diaz

Standard diffusion models are flexible estimators of complex distributions, but they do not encode causal structures and therefore do not by themselves support causal analysis. We propose a causality-encoded diffusion framework that…

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Spatio-temporal (ST) prediction has garnered a De facto attention in earth sciences, such as meteorological prediction, human mobility perception. However, the scarcity of data coupled with the high expenses involved in sensor deployment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Yifan Duan , Jian Zhao , pengcheng , Junyuan Mao , Hao Wu , Jingyu Xu , Shilong Wang , Caoyuan Ma , Kai Wang , Kun Wang , Xuelong Li

Causal inference in observational studies with high-dimensional covariates presents significant challenges. We introduce CausalBGM, an AI-powered Bayesian generative modeling approach that captures the causal relationship among covariates,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-23 Qiao Liu , Wing Hung Wong

Causal learning has long concerned itself with the accurate recovery of underlying causal mechanisms. Such causal modelling enables better explanations of out-of-distribution data. Prior works on causal learning assume that the high-level…

We introduce Causal Diffusion as the autoregressive (AR) counterpart of Diffusion models. It is a next-token(s) forecasting framework that is friendly to both discrete and continuous modalities and compatible with existing next-token…

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