让复杂控制决策变透明,HCA通过三重证据生成可懂解释。
Hierarchical Causal Abduction: A Foundation Framework for Explainable Model Predictive Control

- 用知识图谱、优化乘子和时序因果发现融合解释控制决策。
- 跨领域解释准确率比LIME高53%,调参后达88%。
- 适合需要信任的工业控制场景,也适用于其他预测系统。
模型预测控制(MPC)广泛用于安全关键基础设施中,通过预测未来轨迹并优化控制动作来运行系统。然而,非线性动态、严格的安全约束及数值优化常使单个控制动作对操作员不透明,削弱信任并阻碍部署。本文提出分层因果反演(HCA),结合(i)基于领域知识图谱的物理启发推理,(ii)来自Karush--Kuhn--Tucker(KKT)乘子的优化证据,以及(iii)基于PCMCI算法的时序因果发现,生成忠实且人类可理解的控制动作解释。在三个不同控制应用(温室气候、建筑暖通空调、化工过程工程)中,经专家验证,HCA使用一组跨领域参数,解释准确率比LIME提高53%(0.478 vs. 0.311);经过2–3天的领域特定KKT阈值校准,准确率进一步提升至0.88。消融实验表明,每个证据源均至关重要,移除任一组件导致准确率下降32%–37%。HCA的排序与验证方法可推广至其他基于预测的决策系统,包括学习型控制与轨迹规划。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Model Predictive Control (MPC) is widely used to operate safety-critical infrastructure by predicting future trajectories and optimizing control actions. However, nonlinear dynamics, hard safety constraints, and numerical optimization often render individual control moves opaque to human operators, undermining trust and hindering deployment. This paper presents Hierarchical Causal Abduction (HCA), which combines (i) physics-informed reasoning via domain knowledge graphs, (ii) optimization evidence from Karush--Kuhn--Tucker (KKT) multipliers, and (iii) temporal causal discovery via the PCMCI algorithm to generate faithful, human-interpretable explanations for control actions computed by nonlinear MPC. Across three diverse control applications (greenhouse climate, building HVAC, chemical process engineering) with expert validation, HCA improves explanation accuracy by 53\% over LIME (0.478 vs. 0.311) using a single set of cross-domain parameters without per-domain tuning; domain-specific KKT-threshold calibration over 2--3 days further increases accuracy to 0.88. Ablation studies confirm that each evidence source is essential, with 32--37\% accuracy degradation when any component is removed, and HCA's ranking-and-validation methodology generalizes beyond MPC to other prediction-based decision systems, including learning-based control and trajectory planning.
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