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It provides an opportunity to get a deeper insight into genomic compartmentalization changes of single cells across different conditions, paving the way to a common understanding of the interplay among compartmental organization, genome functions, and cellular phenotypes. Unfortunately, there are only a few methods currently available for the differential analysis of A\/B compartments on Hi-C data at the bulk level; the computational analysis of compartmentalization changes at the single-cell level is a field in its infancy. Herein, we propose DeepExDC, an interpretable 1D convolutional neural network for differential analysis of A\/B compartments in scHi-C data on a genome-wide scale. It accepts Hi-C contact matrices at the single-cell level, runs without any distribution assumption and differential pattern limitation, and interprets genomic compartmentalization changes across multiple conditions. 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