2604.01809 A Residual Variational Autoencoder for 2x Super-Resolution of Hi-C Contact Maps: Cross-Cell-Line Generalization and Loop-Level Biological Validation
We train a residual variational autoencoder (SR-VAE) that performs 2x super-resolution on Hi-C contact maps (128x128 LR to 256x256 HR at 10 kb) by parameterizing the output as bicubic(LR) + gain * decoder(z). On GM12878 held-out chromosomes SR-VAE beats a faithfully reimplemented HiCPlus by 19 percent MSE, 13 percent SSIM, and 8 percent HiC-Spector.