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ArticleCommunications chemistry2025

Human interpretable structure-property relationships in chemistry using explainable machine learning and large language models.

Geemi P Wellawatte, Philippe Schwaller

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Article in Communications chemistry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Geemi P WellawatteLaboratory of Artificial Chemical Intelligence, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. geemi.wellawatte@epfl.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3772-6927
Philippe SchwallerLaboratory of Artificial Chemical Intelligence, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. philippe.schwaller@epfl.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3046-6576

Funding

Swiss National Science Foundation | National Center of Competence in Research Affective Sciences - Emotions in Individual Behaviour and Social Processes (National Centre of Competence in Research Affective Sciences) 180544
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) is an emerging field in AI that aims to address the opaque nature of machine learning models. Furthermore, it has been shown that XAI can be used to extract input-output relationships, making them a useful tool in chemistry to understand structure-property relationships. However, one of the main limitations of XAI methods is that they are developed for technically oriented users. We propose the XpertAI framework that integrates XAI methods with large language models (LLMs) accessing scientific literature to generate accessible natural language explanations of raw chemical data automatically. We conducted 5 case studies to evaluate the performance of XpertAI. Our results show that XpertAI combines the strengths of LLMs and XAI tools in generating specific, scientific, and interpretable explanations.

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PMID39809811
PMCPMC11733140

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