arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 22

Fragment-Level Graph Encoding for Interpretable Molecular Property Prediction

The paper introduces a fragment‑level graph encoding for molecular property prediction, using BRICS decomposition to represent molecules as graphs of synthetically meaningful fragments. This change of input representation allows any message‑passing GNN and post‑hoc attribution method to produce explanations at the functional‑group level, matching atom‑level accuracy on smaller graphs. Experiments across multiple architectures, tasks, and explainers show that fragment‑level encoding recovers known pharmacophores more reliably than post‑hoc aggregation of atom‑level explanations.

By Rafael Lopes Almeida (School of Pharmacy, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland), Ina P\"ohner (School of Pharmacy, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland)
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 3

An Additive MLP-GNN Framework for Characterizing Chemical and Structural Contributions to Aqueous Solubility

arXiv:2607. 02212v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Aqueous solubility is a key property in early-stage drug discovery, but most predictive models merge physicochemical descriptors and molecular graph information into a single representation, obscuring whether a prediction is driven by global chemistry, molecular structure, or both.

By Sampreeti Bhattacharya, Arkaprava Roy
arXiv Machine Learning
22h ago

B-XAIC Dataset: Benchmarking Explainable AI for Graph Neural Networks Using Chemical Data

The paper introduces B-XAIC, a benchmark for evaluating Explainable AI methods on Graph Neural Networks using real-world chemical data. It addresses shortcomings of previous frameworks that rely on artificial datasets and lack direct links to explanation faithfulness. By providing diverse tasks with known ground-truth rationales, B-XAIC enables a comprehensive assessment of XAI methods in the molecular domain.

By Magdalena Proszewska, Tomasz Danel, Antoni Antoszek, Dawid Rymarczyk