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Computational prediction can prioritize candidate miRNA\u2013disease associations, but reliable evaluation is complicated by sparse labels, cold-start entities, limited biological context in bipartite graphs, and leakage when association-derived features are constructed before data splitting.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We present RGCNMDA, a leakage-controlled multi-view framework that integrates global latent structure, local profiles and similarities, and pathway context. Within every fold, interaction profiles, GIP similarities, PCA inputs, MDMF factors, and miRNA\u2013disease graph edges are reconstructed exclusively from training positives. Four independent factorized encoders transform the miRNA and disease interaction profiles and GIP similarities, while a fold-local MDMF branch captures global latent structure. 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