Chemistry-intuitive explanation of graph neural networks for molecular property prediction with substructure masking

Abstract Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely used in molecular property prediction, but explaining their black-box predictions is still a challenge. Most existing explanation methods for GNNs in chemistry focus on attributing model predictions to individual nodes, edges or fragments that a...

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Main Authors: Zhenxing Wu, Jike Wang, Hongyan Du, Dejun Jiang, Yu Kang, Dan Li, Peichen Pan, Yafeng Deng, Dongsheng Cao, Chang-Yu Hsieh, Tingjun Hou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38192-3