HypeMed: Enhancing Medication Recommendations with Hypergraph-Based Patient Relationships

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Hauptverfasser: Zhang, Xiangxu, Zhou, Xiao, Xu, Hongteng, Lian, Jianxun
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author Zhang, Xiangxu
Zhou, Xiao
Xu, Hongteng
Lian, Jianxun
author_facet Zhang, Xiangxu
Zhou, Xiao
Xu, Hongteng
Lian, Jianxun
contents Medication recommendations aim to generate safe and effective medication sets from health records. However, accurately recommending medications hinges on inferring a patient's latent clinical condition from sparse and noisy observations, which requires both (i) preserving the visit-level combinatorial semantics of co-occurring entities and (ii) leveraging informative historical references through effective, visit-conditioned retrieval. Most existing methods fall short in one of both aspects: graph-based modeling often fragments higher-order intra-visit patterns into pairwise relations, while inter-visit augmentation methods commonly exhibit an imbalance between learning a globally stable representation space and performing dynamic retrieval within it. To address these limitations, this paper proposes HypeMed, a two-stage hypergraph-based framework unifying intra-visit coherence modeling and inter-visit augmentation. HypeMed consists of two core modules: MedRep for representation pre-training, and SimMR for similarity-enhanced recommendation. In the first stage, MedRep encodes clinical visits as hyperedges via knowledge-aware contrastive pre-training, creating a globally consistent, retrieval-friendly embedding space. In the second stage, SimMR performs dynamic retrieval within this space, fusing retrieved references with the patient's longitudinal data to refine medication prediction. Evaluation on real-world benchmarks shows that HypeMed outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in both recommendation precision and DDI reduction, simultaneously enhancing the effectiveness and safety of clinical decision support.
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spellingShingle HypeMed: Enhancing Medication Recommendations with Hypergraph-Based Patient Relationships
Zhang, Xiangxu
Zhou, Xiao
Xu, Hongteng
Lian, Jianxun
Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
Medication recommendations aim to generate safe and effective medication sets from health records. However, accurately recommending medications hinges on inferring a patient's latent clinical condition from sparse and noisy observations, which requires both (i) preserving the visit-level combinatorial semantics of co-occurring entities and (ii) leveraging informative historical references through effective, visit-conditioned retrieval. Most existing methods fall short in one of both aspects: graph-based modeling often fragments higher-order intra-visit patterns into pairwise relations, while inter-visit augmentation methods commonly exhibit an imbalance between learning a globally stable representation space and performing dynamic retrieval within it. To address these limitations, this paper proposes HypeMed, a two-stage hypergraph-based framework unifying intra-visit coherence modeling and inter-visit augmentation. HypeMed consists of two core modules: MedRep for representation pre-training, and SimMR for similarity-enhanced recommendation. In the first stage, MedRep encodes clinical visits as hyperedges via knowledge-aware contrastive pre-training, creating a globally consistent, retrieval-friendly embedding space. In the second stage, SimMR performs dynamic retrieval within this space, fusing retrieved references with the patient's longitudinal data to refine medication prediction. Evaluation on real-world benchmarks shows that HypeMed outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in both recommendation precision and DDI reduction, simultaneously enhancing the effectiveness and safety of clinical decision support.
title HypeMed: Enhancing Medication Recommendations with Hypergraph-Based Patient Relationships
topic Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.18459