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CellRFT: Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for Single-Cell Perturbation Modeling

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 17, 2026 · UTC

Predicting cellular responses to perturbations supports the study of gene function, disease mechanisms, and therapeutic strategies. Despite advances in single-cell perturbation modeling, existing models typically optimize surrogate losses that do not directly reflect the biological criteria used for evaluation, so better data fitting need not yield better biological predictions. To address this mismatch, we introduce \textbf{CellRFT}, a reinforcement fine-tuning framework that uses biological evaluation as direct training feedback. CellRFT uses policy-gradient optimization to learn from non-di

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