4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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Early benchmarks in the SCGen paper showed that improving on relatively simple models for the evaluated tasks was not easy or straightforward.

Fabian Theis · Controlling Biology - Fabian Theis, Helmholtz Munich · 6 Nov 2026

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“And then there were a whole bunch of papers coming up where they're basically saying, you know, hey, maybe even more or less linear model were doing a good job. And actually in our SCGen paper early on, we had already some of these benchmarks showing you it's not so, not so super easy and simple task actually to improve on that.”
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