arXiv:2605.18576cs.LG2026-05KDD

区分基因类型,更精准地消除数据批次干扰

scHelix: Asymmetric Dual-Stream Integration via Explicit Gene-Level Disentanglement

论文配图:scHelix: Asymmetric Dual-Stream Integration via Explicit Gene-Level Disentanglement
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  • 按基因属性分两类处理:稳定基因与敏感基因
  • 在多个数据集上比现有方法更好保留生物结构
  • 适合需要高精度整合的单细胞研究者

单细胞RNA测序整合的核心挑战在于平衡批次效应消除与生物学真实性的矛盾。最新研究表明,批次效应在不同基因中表现不一,但多数现有方法对转录组进行统一处理,常导致过度校正和微弱生物信号丢失。为此,我们提出scHelix,一种数据自适应框架,通过在输入层显式将基因划分为领域不变的锚点基因(Anchors)和领域敏感的变异基因(Variants),从根本上改变特征处理方式。scHelix采用双流稀疏扩散编码器,并结合梯度停止图缓存,高效学习多尺度结构表征。其核心为新颖的非对称对齐-精炼-融合协议:不稳定的变异流先对齐到稳健的锚点流拓扑,随后在保守精炼阶段,锚点流通过有界残差门控吸收去噪细节。这种分而治之架构防止捷径学习,实现鲁棒批次去除且不破坏生物簇完整性。大量基准测试表明,scHelix优于当前最优方法。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

A critical challenge in single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) integration is resolving the tension between eliminating batch effects and maintaining biological fidelity. While recent evidence indicates that batch effects manifest heterogeneously across genes, most existing methods process the transcriptome uniformly, frequently resulting in over-correction and loss of subtle biological signals. To address this, we present scHelix, a dataset-adaptive framework that fundamentally changes how features are processed by explicitly partitioning genes into domain-invariant Anchors and domain-sensitive Variants at the input level. scHelix utilizes a dual-stream sparse diffusion encoder equipped with stop-gradient graph caching to efficiently learn multi-scale structural representations. The core of our approach is a novel asymmetric Align-Refine-Fuse protocol: the unstable Variant stream is first aligned to the robust topology of the Anchor stream, followed by a conservative refinement phase where the Anchor stream absorbs denoised details via bounded residual gating. This divide-and-conquer architecture prevents shortcut learning and ensures robust batch removal without compromising the integrity of biological clusters. Extensive benchmarking demonstrates that scHelix outperforms state-of-the-art methods.

单细胞数据整合基因分组深度学习

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