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Fuji Yang

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DMT-Dens: Density-preserving manifold visualization for biological data

Motivation: Low-dimensional embeddings are widely used to explore cell-state heterogeneity in single-cell and other high-dimensional biological data. Although many methods preserve local neighborhoods, they may distort the apparent sampling density of processed observations, altering the visual contrast between dense and sparse regions and complicating the interpretation of rare, transitional, or continuous cell-state populations. Results: We present DMT-Dens, a parametric manifold-visualization method built on a latent-token Transformer encoder. The model integrates rank-based manifold alignment with hard-pair aggregation. To preserve density, it optimizes a loss based on the Pearson correlation between k-nearest-neighbor log-radius estimates in the processed input and two-dimensional embedding spaces. Benchmark evaluations demonstrate strong density preservation, particularly on biological datasets, while retaining competitive label separability. Availability: Source code, data-processing scripts, and resolved experiment configurations are available at https://github.com/Ruizhe-wang/DMT-Dens.

q-bio.QM

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

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.

cs.LG

CellScientist: Dual-Space Hierarchical Orchestration for Closed-Loop Refinement of Virtual Cell Models

Virtual Cell Modeling (VCM) requires models that not only predict perturbation responses, but also support targeted revision when predictions fail. Current LLM-assisted modeling workflows face a refinement-routing problem: prediction discrepancies are observed through executable implementations, but the relevant revision may involve the modeling assumption, representation design, implementation, or task constraint. Without structured feedback propagation across these levels, iterative refinement may repair code while failing to revise the assumption responsible for the discrepancy. We propose CellScientist, a dual-space hierarchical framework that couples a high-level hypothesis space with a low-level executable implementation space. CellScientist represents modeling decisions as structured states, realizes them as admissible programs under task and interface constraints, and routes execution discrepancies back to targeted hypothesis or implementation updates. This enables a closed Hypothesis -> Implementation -> Hypothesis loop where failures become structured signals for model refinement rather than debugging events. Across morphology and transcriptomic benchmarks, with additional single-cell perturbation evaluations, the final executable models selected by CellScientist improve over reference baselines under fixed split and evaluation protocols, while the workflow produces auditable refinement traces.

cs.LG

MAT-Cell: A Multi-Agent Tree-Structured Reasoning Framework for Batch-Level Single-Cell Annotation

Automated single-cell annotation is difficult when the most abundant genes are not the most discriminative ones, or when a target state is poorly covered by a fixed reference atlas. GPTCelltype-style one-shot prompting allows large language models (LLMs) to produce plausible labels from generic expression signals, while reference-based annotators can force unfamiliar states into the nearest known category. We propose MAT-Cell, a prompt-driven framework for batch-level single-cell annotation that separates evidence grounding from label decision. MAT-Cell first uses Reverse Verification Query (RVQ) to combine tissue context, observed differentially expressed genes, and LLM-elicited biological priors into structured candidate-specific premises. Verifier agents then convert these premises into explicit premise-to-claim reasoning trees, and bounded multi-round debate compares,challenges, and revises the resulting claims before consensus or final adjudication.The returned Syllogistic Derivation Tree (SDT) provides an auditable debate trace rather than a formal proof of the annotation. In open-candidate benchmarks across five datasets, a locally deployed Qwen3-30B model with MAT-Cell achieves 75.5% average accuracy, compared with 64.2% for the strongest evaluated CoT baseline and 51.9% for the strongest evaluated scPilot variant. In oracle-candidate bench-marks across three species,MAT-Cell remains competitive across backbones, and local inference substantially reduces monetary cost for batch annotation. Code is available at: https://anonymous.4open.science/r/MATCell-4067

q-bio.QM

The Dawn of Agentic EDA: A Survey of Autonomous Digital Chip Design

The semiconductor industry faces a critical "Productivity Gap" where design complexity outpaces human capacity. While the "AI for EDA" revolution (L2) successfully optimized specific point problems, a paradigm shift toward Agentic EDA (L3) is emerging, evolving from passive prediction to autonomous orchestration of the RTL-to-GDSII flow. This survey presents the first systematic framework for this transition, framing Agentic EDA not merely as "Chat with Tools," but as a Constrained Neuro-Symbolic Optimization problem. We propose a novel taxonomy rooted in a Cognitive Stack--Perception (aligning multimodal semantics), Cognition (planning under strict constraints), and Action (deterministic tool execution)--to dissect how probabilistic agents navigate zero-tolerance physical laws. Through this lens, we analyze the landscape: (1) in Frontend, the shift from one-shot generation to dual-loop syntactic-semantic repair; (2) in Backend, the dichotomy between algorithm-centric solvers and agent-centric orchestrators that treat executable code as a latent space. Finally, we critically examine the Trustworthiness gap, advocating for Sim-to-Silicon benchmarks and formal grounding to transform brittle prototypes into resilient engineering systems.

eess.SY

A Medical Multimodal Diagnostic Framework Integrating Vision-Language Models and Logic Tree Reasoning

With the rapid growth of large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs) in medicine, simply integrating clinical text and medical imaging does not guarantee reliable reasoning. Existing multimodal models often produce hallucinations or inconsistent chains of thought, limiting clinical trust. We propose a diagnostic framework built upon LLaVA that combines vision-language alignment with logic-regularized reasoning. The system includes an input encoder for text and images, a projection module for cross-modal alignment, a reasoning controller that decomposes diagnostic tasks into steps, and a logic tree generator that assembles stepwise premises into verifiable conclusions. Evaluations on MedXpertQA and other benchmarks show that our method improves diagnostic accuracy and yields more interpretable reasoning traces on multimodal tasks, while remaining competitive on text-only settings. These results suggest a promising step toward trustworthy multimodal medical AI.

cs.AI