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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2024

Evaluating the Utilities of Foundation Models in Single-cell Data Analysis.

Tianyu Liu, Kexing Li, Yuge Wang, Hongyu Li, Hongyu Zhao

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Article in bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Tianyu Liu
Kexing Li
Yuge Wang

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Abstract

Foundation Models (FMs) have made significant strides in both industrial and scientific domains. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of FMs for single-cell sequencing data analysis through comprehensive experiments across eight downstream tasks pertinent to single-cell data. Overall, the top FMs include scGPT, Geneformer, and CellPLM by considering model performances and user accessibility among ten single-cell FMs. However, by comparing these FMs with task-specific methods, we found that single-cell FMs may not consistently excel than task-specific methods in all tasks, which challenges the necessity of developing foundation models for single-cell analysis. In addition, we evaluated the effects of hyper-parameters, initial settings, and stability for training single-cell FMs based on a proposed

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