Configuration: 1-NN on GenePT embeddings (Sun et al. 2026) Protocol: Sun et al. 2026 unseen-perturbation DE classification (within cell line) Dataset subset: RPE1 essential-gene Perturb-seq, 40% test perturbations (Sun et al. 2026) 4.63% Proportion (share of perturbation-gene pairs predicted as differentially expressed (compare with the printed true DE prevalence))percent · unknown
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Author-reported evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Methods describe results on both the full data and a PerturbQA-downsampled subset ('We annotate our results to distinguish between these two settings'), but the captions of Tables 1-4 do not say which setting they report. The printed true DE prevalence (1.75-4.41%) matches the full data's 95-98% non-DE share (Table 5), not the downsampled set; this is an inference, not a printed statement.Beyond Expression Prediction: Benchmarking Differential Expression Classification in Single-Cell Perturbation Models · Section 3.2 'Full vs. Curated Dataset'; Tables 1-5
Methods, coverage and source 1-NN on Sun et al. 2026 within-cell-line DE classification, RPE1
lit-cells-networks-20261011-sun2026de-protocol-within-cell-line
Aggregation: Not reported
Beyond Expression Prediction: Benchmarking Differential Expression Classification in Single-Cell Perturbation Models · Table 1, row '1-NN', column 'RPE1' Configuration: Weighted 10-NN on GenePT embeddings (Sun et al. 2026) Protocol: Sun et al. 2026 unseen-perturbation DE classification (within cell line) Dataset subset: RPE1 essential-gene Perturb-seq, 40% test perturbations (Sun et al. 2026) 1.55% Proportion (share of perturbation-gene pairs predicted as differentially expressed (compare with the printed true DE prevalence))percent · unknown
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Author-reported evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Methods describe results on both the full data and a PerturbQA-downsampled subset ('We annotate our results to distinguish between these two settings'), but the captions of Tables 1-4 do not say which setting they report. The printed true DE prevalence (1.75-4.41%) matches the full data's 95-98% non-DE share (Table 5), not the downsampled set; this is an inference, not a printed statement.Beyond Expression Prediction: Benchmarking Differential Expression Classification in Single-Cell Perturbation Models · Section 3.2 'Full vs. Curated Dataset'; Tables 1-5
Methods, coverage and source 10-NN on Sun et al. 2026 within-cell-line DE classification, RPE1
lit-cells-networks-20261011-sun2026de-protocol-within-cell-line
Aggregation: Not reported
Beyond Expression Prediction: Benchmarking Differential Expression Classification in Single-Cell Perturbation Models · Table 1, row '10-NN', column 'RPE1' Configuration: Per-gene L2 logistic regression on GenePT embeddings (Sun et al. 2026) Protocol: Sun et al. 2026 unseen-perturbation DE classification (within cell line) Dataset subset: RPE1 essential-gene Perturb-seq, 40% test perturbations (Sun et al. 2026) 17.1% Proportion (share of perturbation-gene pairs predicted as differentially expressed (compare with the printed true DE prevalence))percent · unknown
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Author-reported evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Methods describe results on both the full data and a PerturbQA-downsampled subset ('We annotate our results to distinguish between these two settings'), but the captions of Tables 1-4 do not say which setting they report. The printed true DE prevalence (1.75-4.41%) matches the full data's 95-98% non-DE share (Table 5), not the downsampled set; this is an inference, not a printed statement.Beyond Expression Prediction: Benchmarking Differential Expression Classification in Single-Cell Perturbation Models · Section 3.2 'Full vs. Curated Dataset'; Tables 1-5
Methods, coverage and source Logistic regression on Sun et al. 2026 within-cell-line DE classification, RPE1
lit-cells-networks-20261011-sun2026de-protocol-within-cell-line
Aggregation: Not reported
Beyond Expression Prediction: Benchmarking Differential Expression Classification in Single-Cell Perturbation Models · Table 1, row 'Logistic regression', column 'RPE1' Configuration: Perturbation majority vote (Sun et al. 2026) Protocol: Sun et al. 2026 unseen-perturbation DE classification (within cell line) Dataset subset: RPE1 essential-gene Perturb-seq, 40% test perturbations (Sun et al. 2026) 0.1% Proportion (share of perturbation-gene pairs predicted as differentially expressed (compare with the printed true DE prevalence))percent · unknown
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Author-reported evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Methods describe results on both the full data and a PerturbQA-downsampled subset ('We annotate our results to distinguish between these two settings'), but the captions of Tables 1-4 do not say which setting they report. The printed true DE prevalence (1.75-4.41%) matches the full data's 95-98% non-DE share (Table 5), not the downsampled set; this is an inference, not a printed statement.Beyond Expression Prediction: Benchmarking Differential Expression Classification in Single-Cell Perturbation Models · Section 3.2 'Full vs. Curated Dataset'; Tables 1-5
Methods, coverage and source Majority vote on Sun et al. 2026 within-cell-line DE classification, RPE1
lit-cells-networks-20261011-sun2026de-protocol-within-cell-line
Aggregation: Not reported
Beyond Expression Prediction: Benchmarking Differential Expression Classification in Single-Cell Perturbation Models · Table 1, row 'Majority vote', column 'RPE1' Configuration: Scouter (Sun et al. 2026) Protocol: Sun et al. 2026 unseen-perturbation DE classification (within cell line) Dataset subset: RPE1 essential-gene Perturb-seq, 40% test perturbations (Sun et al. 2026) 67.2% Proportion (share of perturbation-gene pairs predicted as differentially expressed (compare with the printed true DE prevalence))percent · unknown
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Author-reported evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Methods describe results on both the full data and a PerturbQA-downsampled subset ('We annotate our results to distinguish between these two settings'), but the captions of Tables 1-4 do not say which setting they report. The printed true DE prevalence (1.75-4.41%) matches the full data's 95-98% non-DE share (Table 5), not the downsampled set; this is an inference, not a printed statement.Beyond Expression Prediction: Benchmarking Differential Expression Classification in Single-Cell Perturbation Models · Section 3.2 'Full vs. Curated Dataset'; Tables 1-5
Methods, coverage and source Scouter on Sun et al. 2026 within-cell-line DE classification, RPE1
lit-cells-networks-20261011-sun2026de-protocol-within-cell-line
Aggregation: Not reported
Beyond Expression Prediction: Benchmarking Differential Expression Classification in Single-Cell Perturbation Models · Table 1, row 'Scouter', column 'RPE1' Configuration: scVI perturbation model, mean output (Sun et al. 2026) Protocol: Sun et al. 2026 unseen-perturbation DE classification (within cell line) Dataset subset: RPE1 essential-gene Perturb-seq, 40% test perturbations (Sun et al. 2026) 76.7% Proportion (share of perturbation-gene pairs predicted as differentially expressed (compare with the printed true DE prevalence))percent · unknown
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Independent external evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Methods describe results on both the full data and a PerturbQA-downsampled subset ('We annotate our results to distinguish between these two settings'), but the captions of Tables 1-4 do not say which setting they report. The printed true DE prevalence (1.75-4.41%) matches the full data's 95-98% non-DE share (Table 5), not the downsampled set; this is an inference, not a printed statement.Beyond Expression Prediction: Benchmarking Differential Expression Classification in Single-Cell Perturbation Models · Section 3.2 'Full vs. Curated Dataset'; Tables 1-5
Methods, coverage and source scVI mean on Sun et al. 2026 within-cell-line DE classification, RPE1
lit-cells-networks-20261011-sun2026de-protocol-within-cell-line
Aggregation: Not reported
Beyond Expression Prediction: Benchmarking Differential Expression Classification in Single-Cell Perturbation Models · Table 1, row 'scVI mean', column 'RPE1' Configuration: scVI perturbation model, sampled output (Sun et al. 2026) Protocol: Sun et al. 2026 unseen-perturbation DE classification (within cell line) Dataset subset: RPE1 essential-gene Perturb-seq, 40% test perturbations (Sun et al. 2026) 3.92% Proportion (share of perturbation-gene pairs predicted as differentially expressed (compare with the printed true DE prevalence))percent · unknown
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Independent external evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Methods describe results on both the full data and a PerturbQA-downsampled subset ('We annotate our results to distinguish between these two settings'), but the captions of Tables 1-4 do not say which setting they report. The printed true DE prevalence (1.75-4.41%) matches the full data's 95-98% non-DE share (Table 5), not the downsampled set; this is an inference, not a printed statement.Beyond Expression Prediction: Benchmarking Differential Expression Classification in Single-Cell Perturbation Models · Section 3.2 'Full vs. Curated Dataset'; Tables 1-5
Methods, coverage and source scVI sampling on Sun et al. 2026 within-cell-line DE classification, RPE1
lit-cells-networks-20261011-sun2026de-protocol-within-cell-line
Aggregation: Not reported
Beyond Expression Prediction: Benchmarking Differential Expression Classification in Single-Cell Perturbation Models · Table 1, row 'scVI sampling', column 'RPE1' Configuration: VAE adapted from scGen (Sun et al. 2026) Protocol: Sun et al. 2026 unseen-perturbation DE classification (within cell line) Dataset subset: RPE1 essential-gene Perturb-seq, 40% test perturbations (Sun et al. 2026) 65.9% Proportion (share of perturbation-gene pairs predicted as differentially expressed (compare with the printed true DE prevalence))percent · unknown
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Author-reported evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Methods describe results on both the full data and a PerturbQA-downsampled subset ('We annotate our results to distinguish between these two settings'), but the captions of Tables 1-4 do not say which setting they report. The printed true DE prevalence (1.75-4.41%) matches the full data's 95-98% non-DE share (Table 5), not the downsampled set; this is an inference, not a printed statement.Beyond Expression Prediction: Benchmarking Differential Expression Classification in Single-Cell Perturbation Models · Section 3.2 'Full vs. Curated Dataset'; Tables 1-5
Methods, coverage and source VAE scGen on Sun et al. 2026 within-cell-line DE classification, RPE1
lit-cells-networks-20261011-sun2026de-protocol-within-cell-line
Aggregation: Not reported
Beyond Expression Prediction: Benchmarking Differential Expression Classification in Single-Cell Perturbation Models · Table 1, row 'VAE scGen', column 'RPE1' Configuration: 1-NN on GenePT embeddings (Sun et al. 2026) Protocol: Sun et al. 2026 cellular-context DE classification (cross cell line) Dataset subset: RPE1 essential-gene Perturb-seq, 40% test perturbations (Sun et al. 2026) 2.16% Proportion (share of perturbation-gene pairs predicted as differentially expressed (compare with the printed true DE prevalence))percent · unknown
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Author-reported evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Methods describe results on both the full data and a PerturbQA-downsampled subset ('We annotate our results to distinguish between these two settings'), but the captions of Tables 1-4 do not say which setting they report. The printed true DE prevalence (1.75-4.41%) matches the full data's 95-98% non-DE share (Table 5), not the downsampled set; this is an inference, not a printed statement.Beyond Expression Prediction: Benchmarking Differential Expression Classification in Single-Cell Perturbation Models · Section 3.2 'Full vs. Curated Dataset'; Tables 1-5
Methods, coverage and source 1-NN on Sun et al. 2026 cross-cell-line DE classification, RPE1
lit-cells-networks-20261011-sun2026de-protocol-cross-cell-line
Aggregation: Not reported
Beyond Expression Prediction: Benchmarking Differential Expression Classification in Single-Cell Perturbation Models · Table 3, row '1-NN', column 'RPE1' Configuration: Weighted 10-NN on GenePT embeddings (Sun et al. 2026) Protocol: Sun et al. 2026 cellular-context DE classification (cross cell line) Dataset subset: RPE1 essential-gene Perturb-seq, 40% test perturbations (Sun et al. 2026) 0.49% Proportion (share of perturbation-gene pairs predicted as differentially expressed (compare with the printed true DE prevalence))percent · unknown
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Author-reported evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Methods describe results on both the full data and a PerturbQA-downsampled subset ('We annotate our results to distinguish between these two settings'), but the captions of Tables 1-4 do not say which setting they report. The printed true DE prevalence (1.75-4.41%) matches the full data's 95-98% non-DE share (Table 5), not the downsampled set; this is an inference, not a printed statement.Beyond Expression Prediction: Benchmarking Differential Expression Classification in Single-Cell Perturbation Models · Section 3.2 'Full vs. Curated Dataset'; Tables 1-5
Methods, coverage and source 10-NN on Sun et al. 2026 cross-cell-line DE classification, RPE1
lit-cells-networks-20261011-sun2026de-protocol-cross-cell-line
Aggregation: Not reported
Beyond Expression Prediction: Benchmarking Differential Expression Classification in Single-Cell Perturbation Models · Table 3, row '10-NN', column 'RPE1' Configuration: Per-gene L2 logistic regression on GenePT embeddings (Sun et al. 2026) Protocol: Sun et al. 2026 cellular-context DE classification (cross cell line) Dataset subset: RPE1 essential-gene Perturb-seq, 40% test perturbations (Sun et al. 2026) 16.6% Proportion (share of perturbation-gene pairs predicted as differentially expressed (compare with the printed true DE prevalence))percent · unknown
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Author-reported evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Methods describe results on both the full data and a PerturbQA-downsampled subset ('We annotate our results to distinguish between these two settings'), but the captions of Tables 1-4 do not say which setting they report. The printed true DE prevalence (1.75-4.41%) matches the full data's 95-98% non-DE share (Table 5), not the downsampled set; this is an inference, not a printed statement.Beyond Expression Prediction: Benchmarking Differential Expression Classification in Single-Cell Perturbation Models · Section 3.2 'Full vs. Curated Dataset'; Tables 1-5
Methods, coverage and source Logistic regression on Sun et al. 2026 cross-cell-line DE classification, RPE1
lit-cells-networks-20261011-sun2026de-protocol-cross-cell-line
Aggregation: Not reported
Beyond Expression Prediction: Benchmarking Differential Expression Classification in Single-Cell Perturbation Models · Table 3, row 'Logistic regression', column 'RPE1' Configuration: Perturbation majority vote (Sun et al. 2026) Protocol: Sun et al. 2026 cellular-context DE classification (cross cell line) Dataset subset: RPE1 essential-gene Perturb-seq, 40% test perturbations (Sun et al. 2026) 0% Proportion (share of perturbation-gene pairs predicted as differentially expressed (compare with the printed true DE prevalence))percent · unknown
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Author-reported evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Methods describe results on both the full data and a PerturbQA-downsampled subset ('We annotate our results to distinguish between these two settings'), but the captions of Tables 1-4 do not say which setting they report. The printed true DE prevalence (1.75-4.41%) matches the full data's 95-98% non-DE share (Table 5), not the downsampled set; this is an inference, not a printed statement.Beyond Expression Prediction: Benchmarking Differential Expression Classification in Single-Cell Perturbation Models · Section 3.2 'Full vs. Curated Dataset'; Tables 1-5
Methods, coverage and source Majority vote on Sun et al. 2026 cross-cell-line DE classification, RPE1
lit-cells-networks-20261011-sun2026de-protocol-cross-cell-line
Aggregation: Not reported
Beyond Expression Prediction: Benchmarking Differential Expression Classification in Single-Cell Perturbation Models · Table 3, row 'Majority vote', column 'RPE1' Configuration: scVI perturbation model, mean output (Sun et al. 2026) Protocol: Sun et al. 2026 cellular-context DE classification (cross cell line) Dataset subset: RPE1 essential-gene Perturb-seq, 40% test perturbations (Sun et al. 2026) 82.6% Proportion (share of perturbation-gene pairs predicted as differentially expressed (compare with the printed true DE prevalence))percent · unknown
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Independent external evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Methods describe results on both the full data and a PerturbQA-downsampled subset ('We annotate our results to distinguish between these two settings'), but the captions of Tables 1-4 do not say which setting they report. The printed true DE prevalence (1.75-4.41%) matches the full data's 95-98% non-DE share (Table 5), not the downsampled set; this is an inference, not a printed statement.Beyond Expression Prediction: Benchmarking Differential Expression Classification in Single-Cell Perturbation Models · Section 3.2 'Full vs. Curated Dataset'; Tables 1-5
Methods, coverage and source scVI mean on Sun et al. 2026 cross-cell-line DE classification, RPE1
lit-cells-networks-20261011-sun2026de-protocol-cross-cell-line
Aggregation: Not reported
Beyond Expression Prediction: Benchmarking Differential Expression Classification in Single-Cell Perturbation Models · Table 3, row 'scVI mean', column 'RPE1' Configuration: scVI perturbation model, sampled output (Sun et al. 2026) Protocol: Sun et al. 2026 cellular-context DE classification (cross cell line) Dataset subset: RPE1 essential-gene Perturb-seq, 40% test perturbations (Sun et al. 2026) 27.4% Proportion (share of perturbation-gene pairs predicted as differentially expressed (compare with the printed true DE prevalence))percent · unknown
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Independent external evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Methods describe results on both the full data and a PerturbQA-downsampled subset ('We annotate our results to distinguish between these two settings'), but the captions of Tables 1-4 do not say which setting they report. The printed true DE prevalence (1.75-4.41%) matches the full data's 95-98% non-DE share (Table 5), not the downsampled set; this is an inference, not a printed statement.Beyond Expression Prediction: Benchmarking Differential Expression Classification in Single-Cell Perturbation Models · Section 3.2 'Full vs. Curated Dataset'; Tables 1-5
Methods, coverage and source scVI sampling on Sun et al. 2026 cross-cell-line DE classification, RPE1
lit-cells-networks-20261011-sun2026de-protocol-cross-cell-line
Aggregation: Not reported
Beyond Expression Prediction: Benchmarking Differential Expression Classification in Single-Cell Perturbation Models · Table 3, row 'scVI sampling', column 'RPE1' Configuration: STATE (few-shot cross-cell-line) (Sun et al. 2026) Protocol: Sun et al. 2026 cellular-context DE classification (cross cell line) Dataset subset: RPE1 essential-gene Perturb-seq, 40% test perturbations (Sun et al. 2026) 2.6% Proportion (share of perturbation-gene pairs predicted as differentially expressed (compare with the printed true DE prevalence))percent · unknown
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Independent external evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Methods describe results on both the full data and a PerturbQA-downsampled subset ('We annotate our results to distinguish between these two settings'), but the captions of Tables 1-4 do not say which setting they report. The printed true DE prevalence (1.75-4.41%) matches the full data's 95-98% non-DE share (Table 5), not the downsampled set; this is an inference, not a printed statement.Beyond Expression Prediction: Benchmarking Differential Expression Classification in Single-Cell Perturbation Models · Section 3.2 'Full vs. Curated Dataset'; Tables 1-5
Methods, coverage and source STATE on Sun et al. 2026 cross-cell-line DE classification, RPE1
lit-cells-networks-20261011-sun2026de-protocol-cross-cell-line
Aggregation: Not reported
Beyond Expression Prediction: Benchmarking Differential Expression Classification in Single-Cell Perturbation Models · Table 3, row 'STATE', column 'RPE1' Configuration: TranScouter (Sun et al. 2026) Protocol: Sun et al. 2026 cellular-context DE classification (cross cell line) Dataset subset: RPE1 essential-gene Perturb-seq, 40% test perturbations (Sun et al. 2026) 73.6% Proportion (share of perturbation-gene pairs predicted as differentially expressed (compare with the printed true DE prevalence))percent · unknown
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Author-reported evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Methods describe results on both the full data and a PerturbQA-downsampled subset ('We annotate our results to distinguish between these two settings'), but the captions of Tables 1-4 do not say which setting they report. The printed true DE prevalence (1.75-4.41%) matches the full data's 95-98% non-DE share (Table 5), not the downsampled set; this is an inference, not a printed statement.Beyond Expression Prediction: Benchmarking Differential Expression Classification in Single-Cell Perturbation Models · Section 3.2 'Full vs. Curated Dataset'; Tables 1-5
Methods, coverage and source TranScouter on Sun et al. 2026 cross-cell-line DE classification, RPE1
lit-cells-networks-20261011-sun2026de-protocol-cross-cell-line
Aggregation: Not reported
Beyond Expression Prediction: Benchmarking Differential Expression Classification in Single-Cell Perturbation Models · Table 3, row 'TranScouter', column 'RPE1' Configuration: VAE adapted from scGen (Sun et al. 2026) Protocol: Sun et al. 2026 cellular-context DE classification (cross cell line) Dataset subset: RPE1 essential-gene Perturb-seq, 40% test perturbations (Sun et al. 2026) 73.5% Proportion (share of perturbation-gene pairs predicted as differentially expressed (compare with the printed true DE prevalence))percent · unknown
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Author-reported evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Methods describe results on both the full data and a PerturbQA-downsampled subset ('We annotate our results to distinguish between these two settings'), but the captions of Tables 1-4 do not say which setting they report. The printed true DE prevalence (1.75-4.41%) matches the full data's 95-98% non-DE share (Table 5), not the downsampled set; this is an inference, not a printed statement.Beyond Expression Prediction: Benchmarking Differential Expression Classification in Single-Cell Perturbation Models · Section 3.2 'Full vs. Curated Dataset'; Tables 1-5
Methods, coverage and source VAE scGen on Sun et al. 2026 cross-cell-line DE classification, RPE1
lit-cells-networks-20261011-sun2026de-protocol-cross-cell-line
Aggregation: Not reported
Beyond Expression Prediction: Benchmarking Differential Expression Classification in Single-Cell Perturbation Models · Table 3, row 'VAE scGen', column 'RPE1'