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Tian Zheng

Columbia UniversityORCID 0000-0003-4889-0391Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Cancer Biology· 1 Cell Biology· 1 Neuroscience· 1

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Approach:statistical model· 3 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Approach:contrastive learning· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Research Focus:dimensionality reduction· 1 Research Focus:drug response / drug discovery· 1

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Akihito MaruyaiD· 1 shared Aleksandar ObradovićiD· 1 shared Alexander ChuiiD· 1 shared Andrea CalifanoiD· 1 shared Arianna GiacobbeiD· 1 shared Aunika ZhengiD· 1 shared B Robinson· 1 shared Carlos Pedraz‐ValduncieliD· 1 shared

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Akihito MaruyaORCID

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NeurosciencebioRxivPreprintOct 1, 2026

Foveation as self-supervision signal: Blur masks beat blank masks for learning robust visual representations

Akihito Maruya, Hossein Adeli Jelodar, Tian Zheng…·Ning Qian A

This paper introduces blur and retinal masks as self-supervision signals for vision transformers, showing improved robustness and generalization in visual representation learning.

DOI 10.64898/2026.09.26.754698

imagingcontrastive learning

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Cancer BiologybioRxivPreprintSep 2, 2026

A patient-centric therapeutic paradigm uncouples prostate cancer suppression from systemic metabolic collapse

Ziqun Liu, Hanchu Ye, Haoran Hu…·Zhenfei Li

This paper identifies metabolic dysregulation caused by abiraterone in prostate cancer patients and develops Lifehug-9892 to suppress tumors while preserving systemic metabolic health.

DOI 10.64898/2026.08.30.748180

humanmetabolomics

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Cell BiologybioRxivPreprintDec 27, 2025

TMPO promotes cellular dissemination and metastasis in circulating tumor cells

Arianna Giacobbe, Aleksandar Obradović, Jinqiu Lu…·Cory T. Abate-Shen

This study identifies TMPO as a driver of CTC heterogeneity and metastasis in prostate cancer by enhancing survival under metabolic stress.

DOI 10.64898/2025.12.27.696673

mousebulk RNA-seq

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