Models first beat baseline zero-shot on Arc Institute's Virtual Cell Challenge
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-09-12
The Arc Institute's Virtual Cell Challenge leaderboard shows multiple models turning green: several entries now beat the baseline on zero-shot perturbation predictions across 6 robust metrics. Virtual cell modeling is a frontier AI-for-Science direction, and these first baseline-beating results mark the field entering real competitive territory.
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