Reverse Item Response Theory for Sparsity-Robust Ranking in Fragmented Cancer Drug-Response Matrices

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arXiv:2610.00002v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce reverse Item Response Theory (IRT) to pharmacogenomic drug-response analysis by treating cancer types as latent "subjects" with resistance ability and drugs as "items" with evasion difficulty. Applied to 242,036 drug sensitivity measurements from the Genomics of Drug Sensitivity in Cancer (GDSC2) database, the model estimates cancer-type-level in-vitro resistance and drug-level broad activity on a shared latent scale. Validation across