arXiv:2508.15015cs.LG2025-08被引 2

让分子图神经网络的预测结果可解释,精准定位关键化学片段。

Fragment-Wise Interpretability in Graph Neural Networks via Molecule Decomposition and Contribution Analysis

  • 通过分解分子为化学有意义的片段,量化各片段对预测的影响。
  • 在真实数据集上,解释结果与模型预测高度一致,优于现有方法。
  • 适合药物发现等需要高可信解释的领域使用。

图神经网络在利用分子图中的丰富结构信息预测分子性质方面表现卓越,但其黑箱特性降低了可解释性,限制了在药物发现和材料设计等重要应用中的信任度。现有解释技术常因消息传递机制的纠缠,难以可靠量化原子或子结构的贡献。我们提出SEAL(基于归因学习的子结构解释),一种可解释的图神经网络,能将模型预测归因于有意义的分子子结构。SEAL将输入图分解为化学相关的片段,并估计其对输出的因果影响。通过在模型架构中显式减少片段间的消息传递,实现了片段贡献与模型预测间的强一致性。在合成基准和真实分子数据集上的广泛评估表明,SEAL在定量归因指标和人类对解释的认同度上均优于其他方法。用户研究进一步证实,SEAL提供的解释更直观、更可信。SEAL弥合了预测性能与可解释性之间的差距,为更透明、可操作的分子建模提供了新方向。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Graph neural networks have demonstrated remarkable success in predicting molecular properties by leveraging the rich structural information encoded in molecular graphs. However, their black-box nature reduces interpretability, which limits trust in their predictions for important applications such as drug discovery and materials design. Furthermore, existing explanation techniques often fail to reliably quantify the contribution of individual atoms or substructures due to the entangled message-passing dynamics. We introduce SEAL (Substructure Explanation via Attribution Learning), a new interpretable graph neural network that attributes model predictions to meaningful molecular subgraphs. SEAL decomposes input graphs into chemically relevant fragments and estimates their causal influence on the output. The strong alignment between fragment contributions and model predictions is achieved by explicitly reducing inter-fragment message passing in our proposed model architecture. Extensive evaluations on synthetic benchmarks and real-world molecular datasets demonstrate that SEAL outperforms other explainability methods in both quantitative attribution metrics and human-aligned interpretability. A user study further confirms that SEAL provides more intuitive and trustworthy explanations to domain experts. By bridging the gap between predictive performance and interpretability, SEAL offers a promising direction for more transparent and actionable molecular modeling.

图神经网络可解释性分子建模子结构分析

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