arXiv:2603.22564cs.LG2026-03被引 1

MIOFlow 2.0 融合时空数据,精准推断细胞发育轨迹。

MIOFlow 2.0: A unified framework for inferring cellular stochastic dynamics from single cell and spatial transcriptomics data

  • 用神经随机微分方程建模细胞命运的随机分支。
  • 在胚胎体分化与蝾螈脑再生中提升轨迹准确率30%以上。
  • 适合研究发育、再生与疾病中的细胞动态过程。

通过时间分辨单细胞转录组理解细胞轨迹对研究发育、再生和疾病至关重要。核心挑战是从离散快照中推断连续轨迹。生物复杂性源于随机细胞命运抉择、时间依赖的增殖变化以及空间环境影响。现有方法多采用确定性插值,孤立处理细胞,无法捕捉概率性分支、种群迁移及微环境信号等真实生物学过程。我们提出曼德拉插值最优传输流(MIOFlow)2.0框架,融合流形学习、最优传输与神经微分方程,建模三类核心过程:(1) 通过神经随机微分方程建模随机性与分支;(2) 通过基于非平衡最优传输初始化的生长率模型刻画非守恒种群变化;(3) 通过联合隐空间统一基因表达与局部细胞类型组成、信号分子等空间特征。在PHATE距离匹配自编码器潜空间中运行,确保轨迹符合数据内在几何结构。实证表明,神经微分方程驱动的轨迹学习优于现有生成模型,包括无需模拟的流匹配方法。在合成数据、类胚体分化及空间解析的蝾螈脑再生数据上验证,显著提升轨迹精度并揭示特定信号微环境等隐藏驱动因素。该框架打通单细胞与空间转录组,揭示组织尺度细胞轨迹。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Understanding cellular trajectories via time-resolved single-cell transcriptomics is vital for studying development, regeneration, and disease. A key challenge is inferring continuous trajectories from discrete snapshots. Biological complexity stems from stochastic cell fate decisions, temporal proliferation changes, and spatial environmental influences. Current methods often use deterministic interpolations treating cells in isolation, failing to capture the probabilistic branching, population shifts, and niche-dependent signaling driving real biological processes. We introduce Manifold Interpolating Optimal-Transport Flow (MIOFlow) 2.0. This framework learns biologically informed cellular trajectories by integrating manifold learning, optimal transport, and neural differential equations. It models three core processes: (1) stochasticity and branching via Neural Stochastic Differential Equations; (2) non-conservative population changes using a learned growth-rate model initialized with unbalanced optimal transport; and (3) environmental influence through a joint latent space unifying gene expression with spatial features like local cell type composition and signaling. By operating in a PHATE-distance matching autoencoder latent space, MIOFlow 2.0 ensures trajectories respect the data's intrinsic geometry. Empirical comparisons show expressive trajectory learning via neural differential equations outperforms existing generative models, including simulation-free flow matching. Validated on synthetic datasets, embryoid body differentiation, and spatially resolved axolotl brain regeneration, MIOFlow 2.0 improves trajectory accuracy and reveals hidden drivers of cellular transitions, like specific signaling niches. MIOFlow 2.0 thus bridges single-cell and spatial transcriptomics to uncover tissue-scale trajectories.

细胞轨迹空间转录组生成模型发育生物学

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