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Identifying potential miRNA-disease associations contributes to understanding the molecular mechanisms of miRNA-related diseases. Most of the existing computational methods mainly focus on predicting whether a miRNA-disease association exists or not. However, the roles of miRNAs in diseases are prominently diverged, for instance, Genetic variants of miRNA (mir-15) may affect the expression level of miRNAs leading to B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia, while circulating miRNAs (including mir-1246, mir-1307-3p, etc.) have potentials to detecting breast cancer in the early stage. In this paper, we aim to predict multi-type miRNA-disease associations instead of taking them as binary. To this end, we innovatively represent miRNA-disease-type triples as a tensor and introduce tensor decomposition methods to solve the prediction task. Experimental results on two widely-adopted miRNA-disease datasets: HMDD v2.0 and HMDD v3.2 show that tensor decomposition methods improve a recent baseline in a large scale (up to $38\\%$ in Top-1F1). We then propose a novel method, Tensor Decomposition with Relational Constraints (TDRC), which incorporates biological features as relational constraints to further the existing tensor decomposition methods. 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