OCOO-T : A Simple and Scalable Virtual Cell Model for Transcriptional Perturbation Response Prediction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12838v1
• Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 03:04:38 GMT
• Title: OCOO-T : A Simple and Scalable Virtual Cell Model for Transcriptional Perturbation Response Prediction
• Abstract summary: This paper introduces OCOO-T, a flow-matching-based AIVC model for perturbation response prediction.<n>OCOO-T formulates perturbation response prediction as a continuous-time denoising process.<n>It achieves state-of-the-art performance across diverse perturbations and cell types.
• Score: 0.8574682463936006
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Predicting single-cell transcriptional responses to genetic, chemical and cytokine perturbations is a fundamental challenge in computational biology and AI Virtual Cell (AIVC) modeling, with direct implications for drug discovery and the elucidation of gene regulatory networks. Existing approaches often rely on auxiliary cell-state encoders, hierarchical variational autoencoders, dedicated Transformer encoder-decoder modules, or gene-interaction priors to compress high-dimensional expression profiles into latent representations. While effective, these designs increase architectural complexity and may limit scalability and generalizability. This paper introduces OCOO-T, a minimalist flow-matching-based AIVC model for transcriptional perturbation response prediction. OCOO-T utilizes a vanilla Transformer stack that operates directly on continuous gene expression profiles and formulates perturbation response prediction as a continuous-time denoising process. Perturbation embeddings, dosage information, and cell-line/cell-type specificity are integrated through adaptive layer normalization and in-context tokens. Comprehensive evaluations on Tahoe100M, Replogle, and PBMC benchmarks demonstrate that OCOO-T achieves state-of-the-art performance across diverse perturbations and cell types while effectively scaling to long transcriptional profiles through patching and depatching of cellular contexts. By leveraging the simplicity of Transformer-based denoising for single-cell omics, OCOO-T provides an effective and scalable framework for in-silico cellular simulation.

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