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Joint Flow Matching Enables Continuous Dose-Conditioned Cell Morphing

arXiv cs.CV Bioinformatics AI Lea Bogensperger, Manuela Merlo, Martin Baumgartner, Michael Krauthammer, Bernard Ciraulo 2026-08-17
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TL;DR - A joint flow-matching model continuously conditions predicted single-cell morphology on drug concentration, overcoming methods that ignore dosage or represent it as discrete classes. It also estimates concentration from morphology and generalizes to a held-out dose.

  • Uses dual timesteps to jointly model cell latents and drug concentration.
  • Flow invertibility enables dose-conditioned cell morphing and concentration estimation.
  • Produces a monotonic dose-response geometry in latent space.
  • Achieves competitive or improved per-concentration metrics on two compounds versus representative baselines.

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