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PopPert: Population-level Joint-Distribution Modeling for Single-Cell Perturbation Prediction
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Predicting transcriptional responses to specific perturbations is critical for understanding cellular regulatory mechanisms and accelerating drug discovery. Single-cell RNA sequencing destroys each measured cell, yielding only unpaired populations of control and perturbed cells. However, existing methods typically model perturbation prediction at the single-cell level and assume cell-to-cell correspondence, which conflicts with the unpaired nature of the observed data. To address this challenge, we propose PopPert, a framework that explicitly parameterizes population-level joint gene expression distributions for collective transcriptional state modeling. Given a control population distribution and a perturbation condition, PopPert predicts perturbation-induced changes in distribution parameters, eliminating the need for cell-level correspondence and reducing sensitivity to single-cell noise. To effectively capture gene co-expression patterns, PopPert leverages a low-rank Gaussian Copula to model cross-gene statistical dependencies and construct the joint gene expression distribution, additionally allowing sampling of synthetic perturbed single-cell profiles. Across multiple single-cell benchmarks spanning both genetic and chemical perturbations, PopPert achieves superior overall performance in differential expression recovery, perturbation effect estimation, and population-level distribution matching. These results establish population-level joint distribution learning as an effective paradigm for predicting transcriptional responses from unpaired single-cell populations. Code for PopPert is publicly available at https://github.com/whd1125/PopPert.
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