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In practice, temporal single-cell datasets tend to contain only a limited number of measured time points, which are often unevenly spaced, resulting in irregular intervals between observations due to experimental constraints. Existing methods typically address these intervals by sequentially predicting one time point after another, yet lack mechanisms to explicitly model time intervals, leading to error accumulation.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In this work, we introduce scMix, a language-model-based framework for predicting single-cell gene expression, which enables prediction from multiple historical time points. We build scMix on the Receptance Weighted Key Value architecture and use its time decay mechanism to model temporal dependencies over time. Moreover, scMix proposes a delta-time mechanism that allows the model to bypass unmeasured time points, reducing error accumulation and improving robustness. 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