让科学机器学习模型的局部解释能通过全局一致性检验
SEAM: Global consistency beyond local accuracy in scientific machine learning

- 提出SEAM框架,用结构化解释检测不同区域间解释是否自洽
- 在19组实验中发现局部准确但全局不一致的解释矛盾
- 适合关注模型可解释性与可靠性验证的研究者
科学机器学习通常仅在子域、基准划分或单个预测层面验证模型,但此类局部检查无法判断解释能否整合为一个全局合理的整体说明。本文提出科学解释可接受性机器(SEAM),一种无需依赖生成器的框架,可在区域、传感器、运行状态和模型组件间实现局部到全局的一致性计算。有限解释层析实例SEAM-Ω以状态、闭合与观测通道结构化表示每个区域,并通过重叠部分比较相邻解释,将不一致转化为通道解析的障碍。该障碍定位矛盾源头,并通过限制修复仅在特定声明允许范围内进行,精确可行性可判定声明真伪;若无法精确修复,则采用残差感知正则化记录提供独立标注的实证归因。框架还区分不一致与不可识别性,并监控分布偏移下的学习生成器。文中建立最小干预成本与守恒合同可探测性的定理,以及可识别性与闭合恢复性的配套结果。在19组涉及合成偏微分方程系统与分布外傅里叶神经算子(FNO)监测的实验中,即使局部预测准确,SEAM仍能检测出不相容的解释,并定位至具体通道与重叠区域。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Scientific machine learning commonly validates models at the level of a subdomain, a benchmark split, or an explanation for one prediction. Yet such local checks cannot establish whether the resulting explanations can be assembled into one globally admissible explanation. We introduce Scientific Explanation-Admissibility Machines (SEAM), a generator-agnostic framework that makes this local-to-global consistency question computable across regions, sensors, regimes, and model components. The finite explanation-sheaf instantiation SEAM-$Ω$ represents each region by a structured explanation with state, closure, and observation channels together with optional contract metadata; compares neighboring explanations on their overlaps; and converts disagreement into a channel-resolved obstruction. This obstruction locates inconsistency and tests competing declared accounts by restricting each repair to the revisions that one account permits. Exact feasibility refutes or retains an account; when exact repair is unavailable, residual-aware regularized records provide a separately labeled empirical attribution. The framework also separates inconsistency from non-identifiability and monitors learned generators under distribution shift. We establish theorems for minimum-cost intervention and conservation-contract detectability, together with companion results for identifiability and closure recoverability. Across nineteen experiments involving synthetic partial differential equation systems and out-of-distribution Fourier neural operator (FNO) monitoring, SEAM detects incompatible explanations even when local predictions are accurate, and attributes failures to specific channels and overlaps. SEAM adds a global explanation-consistency audit to existing solvers and learning models, testing whether their local explanations form a coherent scientific account.
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