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arxiv: 2605.20989 · v1 · pith:2B455VJXnew · submitted 2026-05-20 · 💻 cs.LG · q-bio.GN

Modeling Temporal scRNA-seq Data with Latent Gaussian Process and Optimal Transport

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keywords single-cell RNA sequencingGaussian processesoptimal transporttemporal modelinggenerative modelscell trajectoriesperturbation inferenceheteroscedastic models
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The pith

A latent heteroscedastic Gaussian process with optimal transport alignment can infer cell trajectories from static single-cell RNA snapshots.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper develops a generative framework to model how cell populations change over time from single-cell RNA sequencing snapshots that lack direct trajectory information. It represents population trends with a latent heteroscedastic Gaussian process that captures varying uncertainty and approximates the process efficiently using Hilbert space methods. An optimal transport objective aligns the distributions of generated cells with observed ones so that plausible individual paths can be learned despite missing ground-truth trajectories. Cell-specific latent times and cell-type conditioning are added to separate cells that progress at different speeds or head toward different fates. This produces stronger results on interpolation and extrapolation tasks than prior neural approaches and supplies a gradient-based way to predict effects of perturbations.

Core claim

We propose a generative framework that models population trends using a latent heteroscedastic Gaussian process approximated by Hilbert space methods. To address the absence of genuine cell trajectories, we leverage an optimal transport objective that aligns generated and observed population distributions. Our method explicitly captures biological heterogeneity by incorporating cell-specific latent time and cell type conditioning to disentangle temporal asynchrony and trajectories to different cell types.

What carries the argument

latent heteroscedastic Gaussian process approximated by Hilbert space methods, combined with an optimal transport objective that aligns generated and observed population distributions

If this is right

  • The framework achieves state-of-the-art performance on complex interpolation and extrapolation benchmarks for temporal scRNA-seq data.
  • A gradient-based strategy becomes available for inferring how perturbations shift cell trajectories.
  • Cell-specific latent times and cell-type conditioning disentangle temporal asynchrony from branching trajectories to distinct cell fates.
  • Biological variability is modeled explicitly through the heteroscedastic Gaussian process and per-cell parameters.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the optimal transport alignment recovers trajectories reliably, the approach could be used to simulate long-term cell state changes in tissues where live tracking is impossible.
  • The gradient-based perturbation method could be tested on datasets with measured drug responses to see whether predicted shifts match observed experimental outcomes.
  • Integrating the model with multi-omics measurements might yield joint trajectories that link gene expression changes to other molecular layers.
  • Similar distribution-alignment ideas might be combined with other generative models to improve handling of sparse or noisy single-cell measurements.

Load-bearing premise

Aligning generated and observed population distributions via optimal transport is sufficient to recover meaningful individual cell trajectories and separate timing differences from path differences when no true trajectories are available.

What would settle it

On a dataset that pairs scRNA-seq snapshots with ground-truth cell paths obtained from continuous time-lapse imaging, compare the model's inferred cell-specific trajectories and latent times against the recorded paths and check whether the alignment error remains low.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.20989 by Harri L\"ahdesm\"aki, Mehmet Yigit Balik.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of the proposed framework. A latent GP mod￾els smooth population-level temporal dynamics with heteroscedas￾tic noise, which are decoded into distributions of cells at each time point and matched to observed data via OT. to observe individual cells across time. This challenge moti￾vates the development of computational methods that can reconstruct continuous underlying cellular dynamics from such s… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Visual comparison of predicted and observed cell distributions on the ZB dataset. Qualitative Analysis [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Effect of perturbing different numbers of DE genes of PSM and Hindbrain cells on the predicted fraction of cells classified into each type at the last time point of the ZB dataset. The dashed horizontal line marks the observed cell type ratio. 8 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Inferred trajectories under gene and cell type-specific perturbations. Left: Inferred trajectories resulting from perturbing only the most DE gene of PSM and Hindbrain cells. The original model’s mean trajectory steered toward the Hindbrain cluster by scaling up the SOX19A gene, or toward the PSM cluster by scaling up the HES6 gene. Right: Inferred trajectories where the optimization target is defined by t… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Sensitivity analysis to key hyperparameters on the SC dataset. Results are shown for medium (top) and hard (bottom) tasks using the validation splits from hyperparameter tuning. results for this baseline. Homoscedastic ablations. Finally, to evaluate the impact of time-varying noise, we tested two homoscedastic versions of our model: we either fixed the noise standard deviation to 0.1 for all latent dimens… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: PCA visualization of the most DE genes of PSM and Hindbrain cells identified from the final time point of the ZB dataset [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Normalized confusion matrix of the classifier from pooled out-of-fold predictions under 5-fold stratified cross-validation. 21 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Comparison of predicted and observed distributions across models on test time points of the ZB easy task. The black contours, ρˆ, represent the predicted cell density distributions generated by each dynamical model, while the grey shaded regions, ρ, depict the observed cell density. 24 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Comparison of predicted and observed distributions across models on test time points of the ZB medium task. The black contours, ρˆ, represent the predicted cell density distributions generated by each dynamical model, while the grey shaded regions, ρ, depict the observed cell density. 25 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Comparison of predicted and observed distributions across models on test time points of the ZB hard task. The black contours, ρˆ, represent the predicted cell density distributions generated by each dynamical model, while the grey shaded regions, ρ, depict the observed cell density. 26 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Comparison of predicted and observed distributions across models on test time points of the DR easy task. The black contours, ρˆ, represent the predicted cell density distributions generated by each dynamical model, while the grey shaded regions, ρ, depict the observed cell density. 27 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Comparison of predicted and observed distributions across models on test time points of the DR medium task. The black contours, ρˆ, represent the predicted cell density distributions generated by each dynamical model, while the grey shaded regions, ρ, depict the observed cell density. 28 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Comparison of predicted and observed distributions across models on test time points of the DR hard task. The black contours, ρˆ, represent the predicted cell density distributions generated by each dynamical model, while the grey shaded regions, ρ, depict the observed cell density. 29 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Comparison of predicted and observed distributions across models on test time points of the SC easy task. The black contours, ρˆ, represent the predicted cell density distributions generated by each dynamical model, while the grey shaded regions, ρ, depict the observed cell density. 30 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Comparison of predicted and observed distributions across models on test time points of the SC medium task. The black contours, ρˆ, represent the predicted cell density distributions generated by each dynamical model, while the grey shaded regions, ρ, depict the observed cell density. 31 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p031_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Comparison of predicted and observed distributions across models on test time points of the SC hard task. The black contours, ρˆ, represent the predicted cell density distributions generated by each dynamical model, while the grey shaded regions, ρ, depict the observed cell density. 32 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_16.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: PCA visualization of the ground truth samples and model predictions on ZB data for easy (top row), medium (middle row), and hard (bottom row) tasks. The gray points represent the training data. True Data LGP-OT (w. type) VGFM scNODE PI-SDE MIOFlow PRESCIENT Test TPs 4 6 8 True Data LGP-OT (w. type) VGFM scNODE PI-SDE MIOFlow PRESCIENT Test TPs 8 9 10 True Data LGP-OT (w. type) VGFM scNODE PI-SDE MIOFlow P… view at source ↗
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Figure 18. Figure 18: PCA visualization of the ground truth samples and model predictions on DR data for easy (top row), medium (middle row), and hard (bottom row) tasks. The gray points represent the training data. 33 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p033_18.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 19. Figure 19: PCA visualization of the ground truth samples and model predictions on SC data for easy (top row), medium (middle row), and hard (bottom row) tasks. The gray points represent the training data. z1 z2 z3 z4 z5 z6 z7 z8 z9 z10 z11 z12 z13 z14 z15 z16 z17 z18 z19 z20 z21 z22 z23 z24 z25 z26 z27 z28 z29 z30 z31 z32 ˜f(t) ±2 ς(t) Test TPs [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p034_19.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 20. Figure 20: Learned latent temporal functions for the SC dataset under the medium task. The smooth trajectories and varying uncertainty bands illustrate the model’s ability to capture both the population-level trends and the time-varying noise across latent dimensions. 34 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p034_20.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Single-cell RNA sequencing provides insights into gene expression at single-cell resolution, yet inferring temporal processes from these static snapshot measurements remains a fundamental challenge. Current approaches utilizing neural differential equations and flows are sensitive to overfitting and lack careful considerations of biological variability. In this work, we propose a generative framework that models population trends using a latent heteroscedastic Gaussian process (GP) approximated by Hilbert space methods. To address the absence of genuine cell trajectories, we leverage an optimal transport (OT) objective that aligns generated and observed population distributions. Our method explicitly captures biological heterogeneity by incorporating cell-specific latent time and cell type conditioning to disentangle temporal asynchrony and trajectories to different cell types. We demonstrate state-of-the-art performance on complex interpolation and extrapolation benchmarks and introduce a novel gradient-based strategy for inferring perturbation trajectories.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes a generative framework for inferring temporal dynamics from static scRNA-seq snapshots. It models population-level trends via a latent heteroscedastic Gaussian process approximated by Hilbert-space methods, uses an optimal transport objective to align generated and observed marginal distributions in the absence of ground-truth trajectories, and introduces cell-specific latent time variables together with cell-type conditioning to disentangle asynchrony and differentiation paths. The authors report state-of-the-art performance on interpolation and extrapolation benchmarks and present a gradient-based procedure for inferring perturbation trajectories.

Significance. If the identifiability concerns can be resolved, the combination of a scalable GP prior with OT-based distribution matching would constitute a useful advance over neural differential equations and flow-based methods for single-cell trajectory inference. The explicit handling of biological heterogeneity via cell-specific latent times and the Hilbert-space approximation for computational efficiency are positive features that could improve robustness to variability in real datasets.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract (paragraph on OT objective and cell-specific latent time): The assertion that an OT objective aligning generated and observed population distributions, together with cell-specific latent time and cell-type conditioning, suffices to recover meaningful individual trajectories and disentangle temporal asynchrony is not supported by the given description. OT yields a coupling between marginals without guaranteeing a unique or biologically faithful per-cell mapping; multiple latent-time assignments can produce identical population distributions while implying divergent paths. The heteroscedastic GP prior and Hilbert-space approximation do not, by themselves, resolve this non-identifiability in the absence of ground-truth trajectories or additional constraints on the latent-time posterior.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract (benchmark claims): The statement of state-of-the-art performance on complex interpolation and extrapolation benchmarks is presented without reference to specific quantitative metrics, baseline implementations, or error-bar reporting. Because the optimization and regularization details of the OT objective are not described, it is impossible to determine whether the reported gains follow from the proposed model or from implementation choices.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract would benefit from a concise statement of how the Hilbert-space approximation is applied to the heteroscedastic GP (e.g., which kernel and which basis functions are used).
  2. [Abstract] Notation for the cell-specific latent time variable should be introduced explicitly when first mentioned to avoid ambiguity with population-level time.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for their constructive and insightful comments on our manuscript. These have highlighted important areas for clarification regarding identifiability and the presentation of empirical results. We address each major comment point by point below, indicating the revisions we will make to strengthen the paper.

read point-by-point responses
  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract (paragraph on OT objective and cell-specific latent time): The assertion that an OT objective aligning generated and observed population distributions, together with cell-specific latent time and cell-type conditioning, suffices to recover meaningful individual trajectories and disentangle temporal asynchrony is not supported by the given description. OT yields a coupling between marginals without guaranteeing a unique or biologically faithful per-cell mapping; multiple latent-time assignments can produce identical population distributions while implying divergent paths. The heteroscedastic GP prior and Hilbert-space approximation do not, by themselves, resolve this non-identifiability in the absence of ground-truth trajectories or additional constraints on the latent-time posterior.

    Authors: We agree that identifiability of individual trajectories from population-level marginals is a fundamental challenge and that OT couplings alone are not unique. Our framework addresses this through the combination of a structured latent heteroscedastic GP prior (imposing temporal smoothness and heteroscedasticity on dynamics), cell-type conditioning (constraining differentiation paths), and joint inference of cell-specific latent times under the OT objective. These elements together regularize the solution space beyond what marginal matching provides. We will revise the abstract to moderate the claim, stating that the model recovers plausible trajectories consistent with the observed distributions under these priors. We will also add a new subsection to the Methods section providing a discussion of identifiability assumptions, including conditions (e.g., sufficient cell-type diversity and monotonic latent-time progression) under which the posterior over latent times is better constrained, along with supporting simulation experiments that compare inferred trajectories against ground-truth where available. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract (benchmark claims): The statement of state-of-the-art performance on complex interpolation and extrapolation benchmarks is presented without reference to specific quantitative metrics, baseline implementations, or error-bar reporting. Because the optimization and regularization details of the OT objective are not described, it is impossible to determine whether the reported gains follow from the proposed model or from implementation choices.

    Authors: We accept that the abstract's brevity omits necessary specifics for evaluating the benchmark claims. The full manuscript reports these details in Section 4 (Experiments), including tables with mean squared error for interpolation tasks and Wasserstein-2 distance for extrapolation, compared to baselines such as Neural ODEs, scVelo, and TrajectoryNet, with standard deviations computed over five random seeds. The OT objective employs entropic regularization (with parameter ε = 0.1) and is solved via the Sinkhorn algorithm, as specified in Section 3.3. In the revised manuscript we will update the abstract to briefly reference the key metrics and direct readers to the relevant tables and sections for full quantitative results, baseline implementations, and error bars. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: OT objective and GP prior form standard generative training loop

full rationale

The paper defines a generative model with a latent heteroscedastic GP (Hilbert-space approximated) whose parameters are optimized via an OT loss that matches generated and observed population marginals, plus cell-specific latent time and cell-type conditioning. This is a conventional variational or adversarial-style training setup in which the OT term serves as an explicit training objective rather than a derived prediction that reduces to the fitted inputs by construction. No equations or sections in the provided text show a self-definitional loop, a fitted parameter renamed as an out-of-sample prediction, or a load-bearing self-citation whose uniqueness theorem is invoked to close the argument. Performance claims rest on interpolation/extrapolation benchmarks, which constitute external evaluation rather than internal re-derivation of the same quantities.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 2 axioms · 1 invented entities

Abstract-only review prevents exhaustive extraction; the model implicitly relies on standard GP properties and the validity of OT for distribution matching in the absence of trajectories.

axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Hilbert-space approximation accurately represents the latent heteroscedastic Gaussian process for the observed data scales
    Invoked when stating the GP is approximated by Hilbert space methods
  • domain assumption Optimal transport distance between generated and observed population distributions recovers biologically meaningful alignment
    Central to addressing absence of genuine cell trajectories
invented entities (1)
  • cell-specific latent time variable no independent evidence
    purpose: Disentangle temporal asynchrony across cells
    Introduced to model different starting times and speeds

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