AI·Jul 7, 2026, 4:00 AM

Score Distributions, Not Cells: Evaluating Single-Cell Perturbations Under Class Overlap

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Score Distributions, Not Cells: Evaluating Single-Cell Perturbations Under Class Overlap

arXiv:2607.04595v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most classification problems assume the classes are roughly separable, so that an individual sample can usually be assigned to one class. Single-cell perturbation data violates this assumption: two perturbations can produce different populations of cells while overlapping so much that an individual cell could belong to either. Per-cell accuracy then measures this overlap rather than model quality. We see this on Tahoe-100M and the Virtual Cell Challenge, where a linear classifier, an MLP, and a Transformer all plateau near macro-F1 0.2-0.3 even t

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