Table 1.

Disentanglement metrics for two splatter-simulated single-cell RNA-seq datasets with four ground truth variables

		Spearman correlation gap	FactorVAE metric	MIG
Linear step	PCA	0.68 0.00	0.35 0.01	0.54 0.00
	VAE	0.3 0.04	0.4 0.02	0.48 0.13
	-TCVAE	0.18 0.05	0.48 0.03	0.72 0.02
Non-linear step	PCA	0.72 0.00	0.35 0.01	0.55 0.00
	VAE	0.27 0.07	0.41 0.02	0.43 0.08
	-TCVAE	0.16 0.06	0.51 0.04	0.66 0.16

The mean and standard deviation over 5 runs are presented for each method. The dimensionality of the latent space was 10 for all three approaches