RAVEN: Frozen Random Graph Reservoirs with Physics-Informed Interaction Fingerprints for Protein-Ligand Binding Affinity Prediction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.09099v1
• Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 03:58:21 GMT
• Title: RAVEN: Frozen Random Graph Reservoirs with Physics-Informed Interaction Fingerprints for Protein-Ligand Binding Affinity Prediction
• Abstract summary: RAVEN utilizes a multihead reservoir of independently and fully frozen atomistic graph encoders to generate diverse structural projections.<n>The results indicate that frozen multi-view graph representations, explicit physicochemical statistics, and heterogeneous model fusion provide a robust and flexible framework for protein-ligand binding-affinity prediction.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Quantitative estimation of protein-ligand binding affinity from three-dimensional complex structures is a fundamental task in structure-based computational chemistry and molecular modeling. Reliable prediction remains challenging because available structure-affinity data are limited, experimentally heterogeneous, conformation-dependent, and sensitive to dataset partitioning. RAVEN (Randomized Atomistic Views with Ensemble Neural Reservoirs) utilizes a multihead reservoir of independently initialized and fully frozen atomistic graph encoders to generate diverse structural projections without end-to-end optimization of the graph representation. These projections are integrated with a deterministic physicochemical interaction fingerprint and processed by heterogeneous supervised readers, including neural and tree-based regressors, whose outputs are combined through validation-based nonnegative fusion. The random reservoir expands structural feature coverage across independent encoder realizations, whereas the explicit physicochemical descriptors and heterogeneous readers contribute complementary information and distinct inductive biases. Evaluation on a similarity-isolated PDBbind 2020R1 split reconstructed using GEMS similarity resources, together with the protected CASF-2016 subset, demonstrated strong predictive performance. The results indicate that frozen multi-view graph representations, explicit physicochemical statistics, and heterogeneous model fusion provide a robust and flexible framework for protein-ligand binding-affinity prediction.

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