Disentangled Shared Representations Improve Morpho-Transcriptomic Integration

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arXiv:2608.14355v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatial transcriptomics (ST) enables the simultaneous profiling of gene expression and tissue morphology, creating an opportunity to learn multimodal representations capturing shared morpho-transcriptomic structure. However, standard multimodal models often compress modalities into a common latent space without explicitly separating shared and modality-specific sources of variation, which may limit downstream utility. We investigate whether explici