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GFlowNets for Learning Better Drug-Drug Interaction Representations

Machine Learning 2025-10-31 v2 Biomolecules Molecular Networks

Abstract

Drug-drug interactions pose a significant challenge in clinical pharmacology, with severe class imbalance among interaction types limiting the effectiveness of predictive models. Common interactions dominate datasets, while rare but critical interactions remain underrepresented, leading to poor model performance on infrequent cases. Existing methods often treat DDI prediction as a binary problem, ignoring class-specific nuances and exacerbating bias toward frequent interactions. To address this, we propose a framework combining Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNet) with Variational Graph Autoencoders (VGAE) to generate synthetic samples for rare classes, improving model balance and generate effective and novel DDI pairs. Our approach enhances predictive performance across interaction types, ensuring better clinical reliability.

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@article{arxiv.2508.06576,
  title  = {GFlowNets for Learning Better Drug-Drug Interaction Representations},
  author = {Azmine Toushik Wasi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.06576},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Accepted to ICANN 2025:AIDD and NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Structured Probabilistic Inference & Generative Modeling (https://openreview.net/forum?id=LZW1jSgfCI)

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