LaPro-DTA: Latent Dual-View Drug Representations and Salient Protein Feature Extraction for Generalizable Drug--Target Affinity Prediction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.14792v1
• Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 03:46:51 GMT
• Title: LaPro-DTA: Latent Dual-View Drug Representations and Salient Protein Feature Extraction for Generalizable Drug--Target Affinity Prediction
• Abstract summary: Existing methods suffer from significant performance degradation in realistic cold-start scenarios.<n>We propose LaPro-DTA, a framework designed to achieve robust and generalizable DTA prediction.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Drug--target affinity prediction is pivotal for accelerating drug discovery, yet existing methods suffer from significant performance degradation in realistic cold-start scenarios (unseen drugs/targets/pairs), primarily driven by overfitting to training instances and information loss from irrelevant target sequences. In this paper, we propose LaPro-DTA, a framework designed to achieve robust and generalizable DTA prediction. To tackle overfitting, we devise a latent dual-view drug representation mechanism. It synergizes an instance-level view to capture fine-grained substructures with stochastic perturbation and a distribution-level view to distill generalized chemical scaffolds via semantic remapping, thereby enforcing the model to learn transferable structural rules rather than memorizing specific samples. To mitigate information loss, we introduce a salient protein feature extraction strategy using pattern-aware top-$k$ pooling, which effectively filters background noise and isolates high-response bioactive regions. Furthermore, a cross-view multi-head attention mechanism fuses these purified features to model comprehensive interactions. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that LaPro-DTA significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods, achieving an 8\% MSE reduction on the Davis dataset in the challenging unseen-drug setting, while offering interpretable insights into binding mechanisms.

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