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Towards Universal Gene Regulatory Network Inference: Unlocking Generalizable Regulatory Knowledge in Single-cell Foundation Models

arXiv CS.AI

ArXi:2605.08128v1 Announce Type: cross Gene Regulatory Network (GRN) inference is essential for understanding complex cellular mechanisms, rendered tractable through single-cell transcriptomic data. With the emergence of single-cell Foundation Models (scFMs), enhanced transcriptomic encoding is widely expected to revolutionize GRN inference. However, we observe that their performance remains far from satisfactory. The primary reason is that the standard reconstruction-based pre-