Circular RNA-Drug Association Prediction Based on Multi-Scale Convolutional Neural Networks and Adversarial Autoencoders
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The prediction of circular RNA (circRNA)-drug associations plays a crucial role in understanding disease mechanisms and identifying potential therapeutic targets. Traditional methods often struggle to cope with the complexity of heterogeneous networks and the high dimensionality of biological data. In this study, we propose a circRNA-drug association prediction method based on multi-scale convolutional neural networks (MSCNN) and adversarial autoencoders, named AAECDA. First, we construct a feature network by integrating circRNA sequence similarity, drug structure similarity, and known circRNA-drug associations. Then, unlike conventional convolutional neural networks, we employ MSCNN to extract hierarchical features from this integrated network. Subsequently, adversarial characteristics are introduced to further refine these features through an adversarial autoencoder, obtaining low-dimensional representations. Finally, the learned representations are fed into a deep neural network to predict novel circRNA-drug associations. Experiments show that AAECDA outperforms various baseline methods in predicting circRNA-drug associations. Additionally, case studies demonstrate that our model is applicable in practical related tasks.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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