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Recently, many excellent deep graph learning (DGL) methods have been proposed and used to model ligand bioactivities, which is critical for the virtual screening of drug hits from compound databases in interest. However, pharmacists can find that these well-trained DGL models usually are hard to achieve satisfying performance in real scenarios for virtual screening of drug candidates. The main challenges involve that the datasets for training models were small-sized and biased, and the inner active cliff cases would worsen model performance. These challenges would cause predictors to overfit the training data and have poor generalization in real virtual screening scenarios. Thus, we proposed a novel algorithm named adversarial feature subspace enhancement (AFSE). 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