待翻译：Beyond Attention: Signed Integrated Gradients Attribution in a BiomeGPT-Style Microbiome Transformer

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--> [Submitted on 6 Aug 2026] Title:Beyond Attention: Signed Integrated Gradients Attribution in a BiomeGPT-Style Microbiome Transformer View a PDF of the paper titled Beyond Attention: Signed Integrated Gradients Attribution in a BiomeGPT-Style Microbiome Transformer, by Oren Nelson View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:In a feature-tokenized transformer (arXiv:2106.11959) such as BiomeGPT (doi:https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.01.05.697599), each input token is built by fusing a fixed identity with a sample-specific measurement: a fixed species and a variable abundance, T = S + A. To interpret downstream classification in such models, prior work inspects the attention weights of the special [CLS] token (arXiv:2106.11959, arXiv:1810.04805, BiomeGPT) to rank sample tokens by importance. These weights have two critical limitations: they are nonnegative, so they cannot separate disease-supporting from health-supporting evidence (arXiv:2201.12114), and they act after token fusion, obscuring how the input sources S and A each affect the output. To address this we use Integrated Gradients (arXiv:1703.01365), a signed, fusion-aware attribution method, and propose a source-derived baseline T' = S + A_0 for feature-tokenized models such as BiomeGPT, which preserves species identity as a fixed biological coordinate while isolating the effect of abundance variation. Applied to a disease-versus-health decision margin, it yields polarity that explicitly separates pathogenic from protective microbial signals. We show that this gradient-based approach uncovers species-abundance directional relationships and sensitivity diagnostics entirely obscured by unsigned [CLS] attention weights. We further recommend second-order Integrated Hessians (arXiv:2002.04138) to expose microbiome community interaction rules: how a perturbation in one member alters the model's sensitivity to another, and which other species drive ambiguous cases toward disease or health at a given abundance level. This provides a principled approach to explainability in BiomeGPT that generalizes to other smooth and differentiable feature-tokenized transformers. Code is available at this https URL Comments: 15 pages, 6 figures. Code: this https URL Subjects: Machine Learning (cs.LG) Cite as: arXiv:2608.06486 [cs.LG] (or arXiv:2608.06486v1 [cs.LG] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.06486 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Oren Nelson [view email] [v1] Thu, 6 Aug 2026 18:26:05 UTC (873 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Beyond Attention: Signed Integrated Gradients Attribution in a BiomeGPT-Style Microbiome Transformer, by Oren Nelson View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: cs.LG new | recent | 2026-08 Change to browse by: cs References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Loading... Data provided by: Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) IArxiv recommender toggle IArxiv Recommender (What is IArxiv?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)