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Main Authors: Nair, Rekha R, Babu, Tina, Panthakkan, Alavikunhu, Al-Ahmad, Hussain, Balusamy, Balamurugan
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.21820
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author Nair, Rekha R
Babu, Tina
Panthakkan, Alavikunhu
Al-Ahmad, Hussain
Balusamy, Balamurugan
author_facet Nair, Rekha R
Babu, Tina
Panthakkan, Alavikunhu
Al-Ahmad, Hussain
Balusamy, Balamurugan
contents The proliferation of high-dimensional datasets in fields such as genomics, healthcare, and finance has created an urgent need for machine learning models that are both highly accurate and inherently interpretable. While traditional deep learning approaches deliver strong predictive performance, their lack of transparency often impedes their deployment in critical, decision-sensitive applications. In this work, we introduce the Hierarchical Attention-based Interpretable Network (HAIN), a novel architecture that unifies multi-level attention mechanisms, dimensionality reduction, and explanation-driven loss functions to deliver interpretable and robust analysis of complex biomedical data. HAIN provides feature-level interpretability via gradientweighted attention and offers global model explanations through prototype-based representations. Comprehensive evaluation on The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) dataset demonstrates that HAIN achieves a classification accuracy of 94.3%, surpassing conventional post-hoc interpretability approaches such as SHAP and LIME in both transparency and explanatory power. Furthermore, HAIN effectively identifies biologically relevant cancer biomarkers, supporting its utility for clinical and research applications. By harmonizing predictive accuracy with interpretability, HAIN advances the development of transparent AI solutions for precision medicine and regulatory compliance.
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spellingShingle Unlocking Biomedical Insights: Hierarchical Attention Networks for High-Dimensional Data Interpretation
Nair, Rekha R
Babu, Tina
Panthakkan, Alavikunhu
Al-Ahmad, Hussain
Balusamy, Balamurugan
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
The proliferation of high-dimensional datasets in fields such as genomics, healthcare, and finance has created an urgent need for machine learning models that are both highly accurate and inherently interpretable. While traditional deep learning approaches deliver strong predictive performance, their lack of transparency often impedes their deployment in critical, decision-sensitive applications. In this work, we introduce the Hierarchical Attention-based Interpretable Network (HAIN), a novel architecture that unifies multi-level attention mechanisms, dimensionality reduction, and explanation-driven loss functions to deliver interpretable and robust analysis of complex biomedical data. HAIN provides feature-level interpretability via gradientweighted attention and offers global model explanations through prototype-based representations. Comprehensive evaluation on The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) dataset demonstrates that HAIN achieves a classification accuracy of 94.3%, surpassing conventional post-hoc interpretability approaches such as SHAP and LIME in both transparency and explanatory power. Furthermore, HAIN effectively identifies biologically relevant cancer biomarkers, supporting its utility for clinical and research applications. By harmonizing predictive accuracy with interpretability, HAIN advances the development of transparent AI solutions for precision medicine and regulatory compliance.
title Unlocking Biomedical Insights: Hierarchical Attention Networks for High-Dimensional Data Interpretation
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.21820