Learning the response of single-cells to various treatments offers great potential to enable targeted therapies.
Neural optimal transport (OT) has emerged as a methodological framework for analyzing unpaired single-cell data induced by cell destruction during data acquisition.
The Conditional Monge Gap is proposed as a method that learns OT maps conditionally on arbitrary covariates, such as time, drug treatment, drug dosage, or cell type.
The conditional models show promising generalization performance to unseen treatments, outperforming other models in capturing heterogeneity in the perturbed population.