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Evaluating the learnability of single-cell large language models on multiple tasks.

Yu Yan1, Xutao Wang2,3, Dongyuan Song4

  • 1Interdepartmental Program of Bioinformatics, University of California, Los Angeles, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA. yuyan666@g.ucla.edu.

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Single-cell foundation models (scFMs) show task-dependent utility. Performance gains from large-scale pretraining are limited, and bigger models do not always improve results for perturbation prediction or cell type annotation.

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Area of Science:

  • Computational Biology
  • Genomics
  • Artificial Intelligence in Biology

Background:

  • Single-cell foundation models (scFMs) offer potential for unifying diverse biological tasks.
  • The practical utility and scaling laws of scFMs require thorough investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To systematically evaluate the performance of two representative scFMs, Geneformer and scGPT.
  • To assess the impact of model and data size on scFM performance across different biological tasks.

Main Methods:

  • Comparative analysis of Geneformer and scGPT on perturbation prediction and cell type annotation.
  • Evaluation of model performance using real and synthetic datasets of varying complexity.

Main Results:

  • Task-dependent benefits of large-scale pretraining: substantial gains in cell type annotation, limited in perturbation prediction.
  • Increasing model size did not consistently improve performance and could be detrimental, challenging the 'bigger is better' paradigm.
  • scFMs may capture limited biological interactions for perturbation prediction, potentially relying on simple summary statistics.

Conclusions:

  • The effectiveness of scFMs is highly dependent on the specific biological task.
  • Future development should focus on integrating biological knowledge and task-specific architectures rather than solely relying on scaling.
  • Biologically-informed priors are crucial for advancing foundation models in single-cell biology.