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arXiv Machine Learning By Jicheng Ma, Yunyan Yang, Juan Zhao, Liang Zhao

CurvFlow-DTA: dual-graph discrete Ricci curvature flow for drug--target affinity prediction

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CurvFlow-DTA introduces a dual-graph discrete Ricci curvature flow framework for drug–target affinity prediction, replacing static curvature with weighted Forman curvature flow on both drug and protein residue–residue contact graphs. The method precomputes a label‑independent flow trajectory for each entity and uses a pair‑conditioned selector to guide a dual‑branch Flow‑GINE, leveraging frozen ESM‑2 residue representations. Experiments on Davis and KIBA datasets show significant improvements over the Ricci‑GraphDTA baseline, with reductions in mean squared error of up to 19.9% in warm‑start and 27.4% in cold‑start settings, and higher concordance indices across benchmarks.

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