arXiv:2602.22387cs.LG2026-02

提出一种新方法,从复杂生物数据中分离出目标特异性信号。

Disentangling Shared and Target-Enriched Topics via Background-Contrastive Non-negative Matrix Factorization

  • 通过对比背景与目标数据,用非负矩阵分解提取特异性主题
  • 在多种真实生物数据中发现传统方法掩盖的疾病相关信号
  • 高效可扩展,适合大规模单细胞数据,结果直观可解释

高维生物数据中的兴趣信号常被跨条件共有的主导变异所掩盖,这些变异源于基础生物学结构或技术效应,使标准降维方法难以识别条件特异性结构。现有背景校正方法要么无法处理高维度,要么缺乏可解释性。本文提出背景对比非负矩阵分解(Background-Contrastive Non-negative Matrix Factorization, BC-NMF),通过联合分解目标数据与匹配背景数据,在共享非负基底下使用对比目标抑制背景表达结构,从而提取目标富集的潜在主题。该方法生成的非负成分可在特征层面直接解释,并明确分离目标特异性变异。模型采用高效的乘法更新算法,通过矩阵乘法实现,可在GPU上快速运行,支持类似深度学习的随机小批量训练,适用于大数据。在模拟及多种生物数据集上,BC-NMF揭示了传统方法无法发现的信号,包括尸检抑郁大脑单细胞RNA-seq中的疾病相关程序、小鼠基因型关联的蛋白表达模式、白血病治疗特异性转录变化,以及癌细胞系中TP53依赖的药物响应。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Biological signals of interest in high-dimensional data are often masked by dominant variation shared across conditions. This variation, arising from baseline biological structure or technical effects, can prevent standard dimensionality reduction methods from resolving condition-specific structure. The challenge is that these confounding topics are often unknown and mixed with biological signals. Existing background correction methods are either unscalable to high dimensions or not interpretable. We introduce background contrastive Non-negative Matrix Factorization (\model), which extracts target-enriched latent topics by jointly factorizing a target dataset and a matched background using shared non-negative bases under a contrastive objective that suppresses background-expressed structure. This approach yields non-negative components that are directly interpretable at the feature level, and explicitly isolates target-specific variation. \model is learned by an efficient multiplicative update algorithm via matrix multiplication such that it is highly efficient on GPU hardware and scalable to big data via minibatch training akin to deep learning approach. Across simulations and diverse biological datasets, \model reveals signals obscured by conventional methods, including disease-associated programs in postmortem depressive brain single-cell RNA-seq, genotype-linked protein expression patterns in mice, treatment-specific transcriptional changes in leukemia, and TP53-dependent drug responses in cancer cell lines.

单细胞测序非负矩阵分解背景校正生物信号分离

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