用深度学习建模细胞间互动与动态,更准重建发育轨迹。
Modeling Cell Dynamics and Interactions with Unbalanced Mean Field Schrödinger Bridge
- 基于非平衡平均场薛定谔桥框架,显式建模细胞交互与转移
- 在真实单细胞测序数据上显著减少错误分化路径,提升轨迹重构精度
- 适合研究发育生物学、肿瘤异质性等需要追踪细胞演化场景
从稀疏时间点的细胞快照数据中建模动态过程,对理解复杂细胞行为至关重要。现有方法利用最优传输或薛定谔桥理论推断随机、非平衡动态,但难以捕捉细胞间相互作用。而细胞间通讯是生命基本过程,能显著影响状态转移。为此,我们提出非平衡平均场薛定谔桥(UMFSB)框架,用于从快照数据中建模非平衡随机交互动态。基于此,我们设计了深度学习算法CytoBridge,通过神经网络显式学习细胞转移、增殖与交互过程。该方法在合成基因调控数据和真实scRNA-seq数据上均得到验证,相比现有方法能更准确识别生长、转变与交互模式,消除虚假过渡,并重构出更精确的发育景观。代码已公开于https://github.com/zhenyiizhang/CytoBridge-NeurIPS。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Modeling the dynamics from sparsely time-resolved snapshot data is crucial for understanding complex cellular processes and behavior. Existing methods leverage optimal transport, Schrödinger bridge theory, or their variants to simultaneously infer stochastic, unbalanced dynamics from snapshot data. However, these approaches remain limited in their ability to account for cell-cell interactions. This integration is essential in real-world scenarios since intercellular communications are fundamental life processes and can influence cell state-transition dynamics. To address this challenge, we formulate the Unbalanced Mean-Field Schrödinger Bridge (UMFSB) framework to model unbalanced stochastic interaction dynamics from snapshot data. Inspired by this framework, we further propose CytoBridge, a deep learning algorithm designed to approximate the UMFSB problem. By explicitly modeling cellular transitions, proliferation, and interactions through neural networks, CytoBridge offers the flexibility to learn these processes directly from data. The effectiveness of our method has been extensively validated using both synthetic gene regulatory data and real scRNA-seq datasets. Compared to existing methods, CytoBridge identifies growth, transition, and interaction patterns, eliminates false transitions, and reconstructs the developmental landscape with greater accuracy. Code is available at: https://github.com/zhenyiizhang/CytoBridge-NeurIPS.
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