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MKGR: Multimodal Knowledge-Graph Representation Learning for Cold-Start Protein-Protein Interaction Prediction

Wenbo Zhang
Jul 2026 · 0 citations · 90 references
Computer Science

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Experiments on two benchmark datasets under novel-old and novel-novel cold-start settings show that method consistently outperforms competitive sequence, network, and knowledge-graph baselines across ACC, F1, AUC, AUPR, and MCC.

Abstract

Accurate protein-protein interaction (PPI) prediction is central to functional genomics, disease mechanism discovery, and drug development. A difficult setting arises when candidate interactions include proteins that have no observed PPI edges during training, where models relying on network topology alone often lose useful context. This paper presents \method, a multimodal representation framework for cold-start PPI prediction. \method\ combines region-aware protein sequence encoding with four protein-centered biomedical knowledge graphs, including protein-drug, protein-disease, protein-miRNA, and protein-lncRNA associations. The sequence branch extracts contextual representations from structurally informed sequence regions, while graph attention encoders learn modality-specific protein embeddings from sparse biomedical associations. A bridge reconstruction objective regularizes graph learning by recovering shared protein-entity associations, and a pair-level gating module adaptively integrates sequence and graph evidence for each candidate protein pair. Experiments on two benchmark datasets under novel-old and novel-novel cold-start settings show that \method\ consistently outperforms competitive sequence, network, and knowledge-graph baselines across ACC, F1, AUC, AUPR, and MCC.

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