The speaker's group uses methods such as flow matching for generative perturbation modeling; the CellFlow paper reports substantially better generation of perturbation effects, but the methods depend heavily on a good latent space.

“So for this we use something like flow matching or something like that. And in our cell flow paper, this is not just, uh, got accepted for nature methods, we actually really show that these, uh, approaches are much better generating the effect of, of, of, of perturbations, but they're very much dependent on a good latent space.”