| scRNA-seq | single-cell RNA sequencing |
| SDE | Stochastic Differential Equation |
| ODE | Ordinary Differential Equation |
| PDE | Partial Differential Equation |
| OT | Optimal Transport |
| ICA | Independent Component Analysis |
| PCA | Principle Component Analysis |
| MST | Minimum Spanning Tree |
| MCE | Markov Chain Entropy |
| GPCCA | Generalized Perron Cluster Cluster Analysis |
| EM | Expectation Maximum |
| VAE | Variational Autoencoder |
| RKHS | Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space |
| CNF | Continuous Normalizing Flow |
| FM | Flow Matching |
| CFM | Conditional Flow Matching |
| SB | Schrödinger Bridge |
| RUOT | Regularized Unbalanced Optimal Transport |
| GWOT | Gromov–Wasserstein optimal transport |
| FGWOT | Fused Gromov–Wasserstein optimal transport |