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Deep learning perturbation models can outperform baselines on calibrated metrics.
Nature Biotechnology · · Journal Article · Open access
Miller, Mejia + more
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Deep-learning-based genetic perturbation models outperform uninformative baselines on calibrated metrics across 14 datasets and 18 measures.
- Why it matters: Accurate benchmarking of these models is crucial for assessing their true predictive power, but current metrics often lack proper calibration, risking misleading conclusions about model performance.
- What they did: The authors developed a positive control baseline and a metric calibration framework, applying them to evaluate models across multiple datasets and metrics, revealing issues with standard measures like mean squared error and Pearson Δ.
- The result: When using well-calibrated metrics, deep-learning models demonstrate superior performance over uninformative baselines, highlighting the importance of calibration for accurate model assessment.
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