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The ATLAS Penalty: Auxiliary-Transformed Location-Aware Smoothing with Applications to Spatial Transcriptomics
Qian Tang, Eric C. Chi, Wenyi Wang
The paper introduces the ATLAS penalty for spatially smooth deconvolution in spatial transcriptomics, showing improved spatial domain detection using auxiliary covariates.
DOI 10.64898/2026.05.18.725545