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Yet, despite its importance and significant efforts to develop machine learning (ML) models for the task of elucidating the molecular structures of unknown compounds from LC-MS/MS spectra, the performance of these ML-based models remains limited. As a result, the performance of current ML-based models has been reported as insufficient for practical applications, thereby warranting a deeper investigation into their limitations to advance ML-based molecular structure elucidation from LC-MS/MS and enable their utility in real-world settings. Here, we leverage data attribution methods to systematically identify and validate hypotheses about the sources of generalization challenges that hinder current model performance. 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