Hypergraph Link Prediction: Learning Drug Interaction Networks Embeddings

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have revolutionized deep learning on non-Euclidean data domains, and are extensively used in fields such as social media and recommendation systems. However, complex relational data structures such as hypergraphs, pose challenges for GNNs in terms of their ability to model, embed, and learn relational complexities of multigraphs. Most GNNs focus on capturing flat local neighborhoods of a node thus failing to account for structural properties of multi-relational graphs. This paper introduces Hypergraph Link Prediction (HLP), a novel approach of encoding the multilink structure of graphs. HLP allows pooling operations to incorporate a 360 degrees overview of a node interaction profile, by learning local neighborhood and global hypergraph structure simultaneously. Global graph information is injected into node representations, such that unique global structural patterns of every node are encoded at the node level. HLP leverages the augmented hypergraph adjacency matrix to incorporate the depth of the hypergraph in the convolutional layers. The model is applied to the task of predicting multi-drug interactions, by modeling relations between pairs of drugs as a hypergraph. The existence and the type of drug interactions between the same pair of drugs are mapped as multiple edges, and can be inferred by learning the multigraph local and global structure concurrently. To account for molecular graph properties of a drug, additional drug chemical graph structural fingerprints are included as node attributes.