scCBGM: Interpretable Single-Cell Counterfactual Editing
Understanding cellular phenotypes and how they respond to perturbations is critical for disease biology and therapeutic design. Single-cell RNA sequencing enables characterization at cellular resolution, yet the combinatorial space of conditions makes exhaustive experimental mapping infeasible. We introduce single-cell Concept Bottleneck Generative Models (scCBGM), a framework for interpretable and precise counterfactual editing of individual cells. scCBGM adapts concept bottleneck architectures for single-cell data through decoder skip connections and a cross-covariance penalty that promotes disentanglement without dimensional constraints. We extend the framework to flow matching models, enabling concept-guided editing in both encoding-decoding and generation regimes. To enable rigorous evaluation, we develop a synthetic benchmark with ground-truth counterfactuals. Across multiple real datasets, scCBGM demonstrates superior performance in combinatorial generalization and counterfactual prediction, supported by cell-level validation on synthetic data and population-level benchmarks on real datasets.
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