The speaker's group showed that nonlinearities in its scTab tabular predictive model improved on the baseline for more complex cell-type prediction.

“Suddenly, you know, there you need to do a bit more. And we-- like for us, there was one paper called scTab, like a tabular foundation model, uh, predictive model type of thing. We actually showed that this non-linearity was really adding be-beyond the, the baseline.”