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    • Pharmacology and Bioinformatics
    • Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

    Background:

    • Accurate prediction of drug-drug interactions (DDIs) is crucial for enhancing drug therapy safety and efficacy.
    • Current DDI prediction models utilizing biomedical knowledge graphs have limitations in feature extraction refinement.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop an advanced knowledge graph-based method for multi-typed DDI prediction.
    • To improve the quality of drug-drug pair embeddings through contrastive learning.

    Main Methods:

    • Developed KG-CLDDI, combining drug knowledge aggregation and topological aggregation features from knowledge and DDI graphs.
    • Implemented a contrastive learning module with horizontal reversal and dropout for high-quality embeddings.

    Main Results:

    • KG-CLDDI demonstrated superior performance over state-of-the-art models in both transductive and inductive settings.
    • In the inductive setting, KG-CLDDI achieved AUC and AUPR improvements of 17.49% and 24.97%, respectively.
    • Ablation analysis and case studies confirmed the method's effectiveness.

    Conclusions:

    • KG-CLDDI offers a significant advancement in DDI prediction accuracy.
    • The findings highlight the potential of KG-CLDDI for improving clinical decision support and drug development.