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arxiv: 2607.00931 · v1 · pith:BOPOAMZWnew · submitted 2026-07-01 · 💻 cs.LG

Explainable AI for Cancer Drug Response Prediction: Beyond Univariate Feature Attributions

Martino Ciaperoni , Margherita Lalli , Simone Piaggesi , Martina Varisco , Francesco Carli , Riccardo Guidotti , Dino Pedreschi , Francesco Raimondi
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ILLUME+ is a post-hoc framework that generates multi-form explanations for AI models predicting cancer drug responses from gene profiles, going beyond single-gene scores.

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The paper introduces ILLUME+, a scalable explainability method for machine learning models that predict how cancers respond to drugs using transcriptomic data. It argues that existing approaches are limited by high computational cost, instability, and a focus only on individual gene contributions while ignoring coordinated gene activity. ILLUME+ integrates multiple complementary explanation types into the prediction pipeline. This produces gene importance scores that hold up better across runs, align with established drug-gene links and drug mechanisms, and support generating new hypotheses about interaction-based molecular signals. A sympathetic reader would see value in turning accurate but opaque predictions into tools for biological discovery in precision oncology.

Core claim

ILLUME+ is a scalable post-hoc explainability framework that moves beyond single-gene assessments to capture multiple, complementary forms of explanation. Integrated into an end-to-end pipeline for cancer drug response prediction from transcriptomic profiles, it produces more stable gene importance scores than existing baselines, recovers established drug-gene associations and mechanisms of action, and enables AI-assisted hypothesis generation to uncover novel interaction-driven molecular signals in cancer biology.

What carries the argument

ILLUME+, the post-hoc explainability framework that integrates multiple complementary explanation types to capture coordinated gene activity rather than univariate attributions.

If this is right

  • Gene importance scores remain consistent when models are retrained or data splits change.
  • Explanations recover known drug targets and mechanisms of action documented in cancer biology.
  • AI outputs can be used to propose new hypotheses about gene interaction effects on drug sensitivity.
  • The framework scales to large transcriptomic datasets without the computational limits of prior methods.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same multi-explanation approach could transfer to other high-dimensional biological tasks such as predicting protein interactions or disease subtypes.
  • If the novel signals hold up in follow-up experiments, the method could shorten the cycle from computational prediction to lab validation of drug mechanisms.
  • Comparing ILLUME+ outputs against purely statistical gene correlation methods would clarify how much the AI model itself adds beyond data patterns.

Load-bearing premise

The post-hoc explanations generated by ILLUME+ accurately capture coordinated biological mechanisms rather than model-specific artifacts or data biases.

What would settle it

Re-running ILLUME+ on the same trained models and data yields gene importance scores that vary substantially across trials, or the recovered associations fail to match independently verified drug-gene relationships from the literature.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2607.00931 by Dino Pedreschi, Fosca Giannotti, Francesco Carli, Francesco Raimondi, Margherita Lalli, Martina Varisco, Martino Ciaperoni, Riccardo Guidotti, Simone Piaggesi.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Example gene graph for Venetoclax-sensitive cell lines. Strongly interacting genes identified by our approach are in red, neighboring genes from the STRING database in grey. Solid edges indicate high-confidence interactions from STRING, dashed links are inferred by our approach. More fundamentally, univariate explanations assess genes indepen￾dently, whereas cellular response to treatment arises from coor￾… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: (a) ILLUME+ extends ILLUME through a 1-layer low-rank hypernetwork and a stochastic Jacobian penalty, improving [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Putative gene recovery (measured via NDCG@k) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Robustness (measured via cosine similarity) across [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Pathway-colored top-20 gene importance profiles for three example drugs for the resistant class. Genes associated [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Examples of factual (top) and counterfactual (bot [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Distribution of pathway overlap across drugs for the top (left box plot) and bottom (right box plot) 1,000 ranked pairs. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Pathway overlap for the top-20 gene pairs in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Empirical p-values for centrality measures of the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Null distribution of conductance and empirical [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_11.png] view at source ↗
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Predicting cancer drug response from transcriptomic profiles is a cornerstone of precision oncology, yet the scientific value of machine learning models hinges not solely on predictive accuracy, but also on their capacity to generate reliable biological insights. Current explainability approaches in this setting are computationally costly, lack robustness, and reduce complex drug response to univariate gene importance scores, overlooking the coordinated gene activity that drives sensitivity and resistance. In this work, we present ILLUME+, a scalable post-hoc explainability framework that moves beyond single-gene assessments to capture multiple, complementary forms of explanation. Integrated into our end-to-end pipeline, ILLUME+ produces more stable gene importance scores than existing baselines, recovers established drug-gene associations and mechanisms of action, and enables AI-assisted hypothesis generation to uncover novel interaction-driven molecular signals in cancer biology.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper introduces ILLUME+, a scalable post-hoc explainability framework integrated into an end-to-end pipeline for predicting cancer drug response from transcriptomic profiles. It claims to move beyond univariate gene importance by capturing multiple complementary explanations, yielding more stable gene importance scores than baselines, recovering known drug-gene associations and mechanisms of action, and supporting AI-assisted hypothesis generation for novel interaction-driven molecular signals.

Significance. If the empirical claims are substantiated, the framework could meaningfully advance XAI applications in precision oncology by addressing limitations of current methods (computational cost, lack of robustness, and reduction to single-gene scores) and enabling more reliable extraction of coordinated biological insights from ML models.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The abstract makes specific performance claims (more stable gene importance scores, recovery of established associations, enabling novel signal discovery) but provides no description of methods, datasets, baselines, stability metrics, validation procedures, or experimental design. Without these details the central claims cannot be evaluated for support.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract: No evidence or tests are supplied to address the risk that the generated explanations reflect model artifacts or data biases rather than coordinated biological mechanisms, leaving the claim of biological fidelity unsupported by the supplied text.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their comments. We address the two major points on the abstract below, noting that the full manuscript provides the supporting details while agreeing that the abstract could be strengthened for standalone clarity.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The abstract makes specific performance claims (more stable gene importance scores, recovery of established associations, enabling novel signal discovery) but provides no description of methods, datasets, baselines, stability metrics, validation procedures, or experimental design. Without these details the central claims cannot be evaluated for support.

    Authors: We agree the abstract is high-level and omits these specifics due to length constraints. The Methods section details the end-to-end pipeline, datasets (GDSC, CCLE, TCGA), baselines (SHAP, LIME, Integrated Gradients), stability metrics (e.g., Jaccard consistency across bootstrap runs and perturbations), and experimental design (cross-validation, known association recovery). We will revise the abstract to briefly reference the key datasets, baselines, and stability evaluation approach. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: No evidence or tests are supplied to address the risk that the generated explanations reflect model artifacts or data biases rather than coordinated biological mechanisms, leaving the claim of biological fidelity unsupported by the supplied text.

    Authors: The abstract summarizes the claims, but the full manuscript supports biological fidelity through recovery of established drug-gene associations and mechanisms of action (detailed in Results), plus stability comparisons. We acknowledge that explicit controls for artifacts (e.g., permutation baselines or bias audits) are not highlighted in the abstract. We will add a short discussion of these controls in the revised manuscript's Discussion section. revision: partial

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No derivation chain or equations present; no circularity identified

full rationale

The manuscript abstract and context describe an empirical XAI framework (ILLUME+) for post-hoc explanations in cancer drug response models. No equations, derivations, fitted parameters presented as predictions, or self-citation load-bearing uniqueness theorems appear in the supplied text. Claims rest on stability metrics, recovery of known associations, and hypothesis generation, which are externally falsifiable via experiments rather than reducing to self-definition or input renaming. The derivation chain is therefore self-contained with no detectable circular steps.

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