Hierarchical Multi-Label Contrastive Learning for Protein-Protein Interaction Prediction Across Organisms

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02724v3
• Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2025 11:32:04 GMT
• Title: Hierarchical Multi-Label Contrastive Learning for Protein-Protein Interaction Prediction Across Organisms
• Authors: Shiyi Liu, Buwen Liang, Yuetong Fang, Zixuan Jiang, Renjing Xu,
• Abstract summary: We propose HIPPO, a hierarchical contrastive framework for protein-protein interaction prediction.<n>The proposed approach incorporates hierarchical contrastive loss functions that emulate the structured relationship among functional classes of proteins.<n> Experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that HIPPO achieves state-of-the-art performance, outperforming existing methods and showing robustness in low-data regimes.
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• Abstract: Recent advances in AI for science have highlighted the power of contrastive learning in bridging heterogeneous biological data modalities. Building on this paradigm, we propose HIPPO (HIerarchical Protein-Protein interaction prediction across Organisms), a hierarchical contrastive framework for protein-protein interaction(PPI) prediction, where protein sequences and their hierarchical attributes are aligned through multi-tiered biological representation matching. The proposed approach incorporates hierarchical contrastive loss functions that emulate the structured relationship among functional classes of proteins. The framework adaptively incorporates domain and family knowledge through a data-driven penalty mechanism, enforcing consistency between the learned embedding space and the intrinsic hierarchy of protein functions. Experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that HIPPO achieves state-of-the-art performance, outperforming existing methods and showing robustness in low-data regimes. Notably, the model demonstrates strong zero-shot transferability to other species without retraining, enabling reliable PPI prediction and functional inference even in less characterized or rare organisms where experimental data are limited. Further analysis reveals that hierarchical feature fusion is critical for capturing conserved interaction determinants, such as binding motifs and functional annotations. This work advances cross-species PPI prediction and provides a unified framework for interaction prediction in scenarios with sparse or imbalanced multi-species data.

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