arXiv:2512.10640cs.AIcs.LG2025-12AAAI被引 1

通过细胞-基因关联优化,提升单细胞聚类精度。

Refinement Contrastive Learning of Cell-Gene Associations for Unsupervised Cell Type Identification

  • 引入对比分布对齐与基因相关性精炼模块,捕捉细胞-基因关系。
  • 在多个数据集上优于现有方法,准确率显著提升。
  • 适合研究细胞异质性及生物功能解析的科研人员使用。

无监督细胞类型识别在单细胞组学研究中至关重要,有助于发现和表征异质性细胞群体。尽管已有多种聚类方法,但大多仅关注细胞内在结构,忽视细胞-基因关联的关键作用,限制了对相近细胞类型的区分能力。为此,我们提出一种精炼对比学习框架(scRCL),显式融合细胞-基因互作以获得更具信息量的表示。具体而言,设计两个对比分布对齐组件,通过有效利用细胞-细胞结构关系揭示可靠的内在细胞结构;同时构建精炼模块,整合基因相关性结构学习,增强细胞嵌入以捕捉潜在的细胞-基因关联,强化细胞与其关联基因间的联系,优化表征学习以挖掘生物学意义明确的关系。在多个单细胞RNA测序和空间转录组学基准数据集上的大量实验表明,该方法在细胞类型识别准确率上持续优于当前最优基线。下游生物分析进一步验证,恢复的细胞群体表现出一致的基因表达特征,充分证实方法的生物学相关性。代码已公开于https://github.com/THPengL/scRCL。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Unsupervised cell type identification is crucial for uncovering and characterizing heterogeneous populations in single cell omics studies. Although a range of clustering methods have been developed, most focus exclusively on intrinsic cellular structure and ignore the pivotal role of cell-gene associations, which limits their ability to distinguish closely related cell types. To this end, we propose a Refinement Contrastive Learning framework (scRCL) that explicitly incorporates cell-gene interactions to derive more informative representations. Specifically, we introduce two contrastive distribution alignment components that reveal reliable intrinsic cellular structures by effectively exploiting cell-cell structural relationships. Additionally, we develop a refinement module that integrates gene-correlation structure learning to enhance cell embeddings by capturing underlying cell-gene associations. This module strengthens connections between cells and their associated genes, refining the representation learning to exploiting biologically meaningful relationships. Extensive experiments on several single-cell RNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics benchmark datasets demonstrate that our method consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in cell-type identification accuracy. Moreover, downstream biological analyses confirm that the recovered cell populations exhibit coherent gene-expression signatures, further validating the biological relevance of our approach. The code is available at https://github.com/THPengL/scRCL.

单细胞聚类基因关联对比学习

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