Drug Synergy Prediction via Residual Graph Isomorphism Networks and Attention Mechanisms

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Main Authors: Song, Jiyan, Wang, Wenyang, Yan, Chengcheng, Han, Zhiquan, Zhao, Feifei
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Published: 2026
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author Song, Jiyan
Wang, Wenyang
Yan, Chengcheng
Han, Zhiquan
Zhao, Feifei
author_facet Song, Jiyan
Wang, Wenyang
Yan, Chengcheng
Han, Zhiquan
Zhao, Feifei
contents In the treatment of complex diseases, treatment regimens using a single drug often yield limited efficacy and can lead to drug resistance. In contrast, combination drug therapies can significantly improve therapeutic outcomes through synergistic effects. However, experimentally validating all possible drug combinations is prohibitively expensive, underscoring the critical need for efficient computational prediction methods. Although existing approaches based on deep learning and graph neural networks (GNNs) have made considerable progress, challenges remain in reducing structural bias, improving generalization capability, and enhancing model interpretability. To address these limitations, this paper proposes a collaborative prediction graph neural network that integrates molecular structural features and cell-line genomic profiles with drug-drug interactions to enhance the prediction of synergistic effects. We introduce a novel model named the Residual Graph Isomorphism Network integrated with an Attention mechanism (ResGIN-Att). The model first extracts multi scale topological features of drug molecules using a residual graph isomorphism network, where residual connections help mitigate over-smoothing in deep layers. Subsequently, an adaptive Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) module fuses structural information from local to global scales. Finally, a cross-attention module is designed to explicitly model drug-drug interactions and identify key chemical substructures. Extensive experiments on five public benchmark datasets demonstrate that ResGIN-Att achieves competitive performance, comparing favorably against key baseline methods while exhibiting promising generalization capability and robustness.
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spellingShingle Drug Synergy Prediction via Residual Graph Isomorphism Networks and Attention Mechanisms
Song, Jiyan
Wang, Wenyang
Yan, Chengcheng
Han, Zhiquan
Zhao, Feifei
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
In the treatment of complex diseases, treatment regimens using a single drug often yield limited efficacy and can lead to drug resistance. In contrast, combination drug therapies can significantly improve therapeutic outcomes through synergistic effects. However, experimentally validating all possible drug combinations is prohibitively expensive, underscoring the critical need for efficient computational prediction methods. Although existing approaches based on deep learning and graph neural networks (GNNs) have made considerable progress, challenges remain in reducing structural bias, improving generalization capability, and enhancing model interpretability. To address these limitations, this paper proposes a collaborative prediction graph neural network that integrates molecular structural features and cell-line genomic profiles with drug-drug interactions to enhance the prediction of synergistic effects. We introduce a novel model named the Residual Graph Isomorphism Network integrated with an Attention mechanism (ResGIN-Att). The model first extracts multi scale topological features of drug molecules using a residual graph isomorphism network, where residual connections help mitigate over-smoothing in deep layers. Subsequently, an adaptive Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) module fuses structural information from local to global scales. Finally, a cross-attention module is designed to explicitly model drug-drug interactions and identify key chemical substructures. Extensive experiments on five public benchmark datasets demonstrate that ResGIN-Att achieves competitive performance, comparing favorably against key baseline methods while exhibiting promising generalization capability and robustness.
title Drug Synergy Prediction via Residual Graph Isomorphism Networks and Attention Mechanisms
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21473