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Graph-structured data consisting of objects (i.e., nodes) and relationships among objects (i.e., edges) are ubiquitous. Graph-level learning is a matter of studying a collection of graphs instead of a single graph. Traditional graph-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Ge Zhang , Jia Wu , Jian Yang , Shan Xue , Wenbin Hu , Chuan Zhou , Hao Peng , Quan Z. Sheng , Charu Aggarwal

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are a type of deep learning models that are trained on graphs and have been successfully applied in various domains. Despite the effectiveness of GNNs, it is still challenging for GNNs to efficiently scale to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Yingxia Shao , Hongzheng Li , Xizhi Gu , Hongbo Yin , Yawen Li , Xupeng Miao , Wentao Zhang , Bin Cui , Lei Chen

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have advanced significantly in handling graph-structured data, but a comprehensive framework for evaluating explainability remains lacking. Existing evaluation frameworks primarily involve post-hoc explanations,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Magdalena Proszewska , N. Siddharth

The explainability of deep networks is becoming a central issue in the deep learning community. It is the same for learning on graphs, a data structure present in many real world problems. In this paper, we propose a method that is more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Adrien Raison , Pascal Bourdon , David Helbert

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are effective machine learning models for various graph learning problems. Despite their empirical successes, the theoretical limitations of GNNs have been revealed recently. Consequently, many GNN models have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Ryoma Sato

As large-scale graphs become more widespread, more and more computational challenges with extracting, processing, and interpreting large graph data are being exposed. It is therefore natural to search for ways to summarize these expansive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Nasrin Shabani , Jia Wu , Amin Beheshti , Quan Z. Sheng , Jin Foo , Venus Haghighi , Ambreen Hanif , Maryam Shahabikargar

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become a standard approach for learning from graph-structured data. However, their reliance on parametric classifiers (most often linear softmax layers) limits interpretability and sometimes hinders…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zeljko Bolevic , Milos Brajovic , Isidora Stankovic , Ljubisa Stankovic

Graph learning has rapidly evolved into a critical subfield of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). Its development began with early graph-theoretic methods, gaining significant momentum with the advent of graph neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Feng Xia , Ciyuan Peng , Jing Ren , Falih Gozi Febrinanto , Renqiang Luo , Vidya Saikrishna , Shuo Yu , Xiangjie Kong

Deep learning's performance has been extensively recognized recently. Graph neural networks (GNNs) are designed to deal with graph-structural data that classical deep learning does not easily manage. Since most GNNs were created using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Zhiqian Chen , Fanglan Chen , Lei Zhang , Taoran Ji , Kaiqun Fu , Liang Zhao , Feng Chen , Lingfei Wu , Charu Aggarwal , Chang-Tien Lu

Recently, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have significantly advanced the performance of machine learning tasks on graphs. However, this technological breakthrough makes people wonder: how does a GNN make such decisions, and can we trust its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Xiaoqi Wang , Han-Wei Shen

Explaining Graph Neural Networks predictions to end users of AI applications in easily understandable terms remains an unsolved problem. In particular, we do not have well developed methods for automatically evaluating explanations, in ways…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Vanya BK , Balaji Ganesan , Aniket Saxena , Devbrat Sharma , Arvind Agarwal

Deep neural networks (DNNs) achieve state-of-the-art performance on many tasks, but this often requires increasingly larger model sizes, which in turn leads to more complex internal representations. Explainability techniques (XAI) have made…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Tom Pelletreau-Duris , Ruud van Bakel , Michael Cochez

Explainability has been widely stated as a cornerstone of the responsible and trustworthy use of machine learning models. With the ubiquitous use of Deep Neural Network (DNN) models expanding to risk-sensitive and safety-critical domains,…

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) achieve outstanding performance across graph-based tasks but remain difficult to interpret. In this paper, we revisit foundational assumptions underlying model-level explanation methods for GNNs, namely: (1)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Hsiao-Ying Lu , Yiran Li , Ujwal Pratap Krishna Kaluvakolanu Thyagarajan , Kwan-Liu Ma

Explainability in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) is a new field growing in the last few years. In this publication we address the problem of determining how important is each neighbor for the GNN when classifying a node and how to measure the…

The success of deep learning has revolutionized many fields of research including areas of computer vision, text and speech processing. Enormous research efforts have led to numerous methods that are capable of efficiently analyzing data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Christoph Heindl

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are the most widely adopted model in graph-structured data oriented learning and representation. Despite their extraordinary success in real-world applications, understanding their working mechanism by theory is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Huayi Tang , Yong Liu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have recently emerged as a robust framework for graph-structured data. They have been applied to many problems such as knowledge graph analysis, social networks recommendation, and even Covid19 detection and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Thanh-Dat Nguyen , Thanh Le-Cong , ThanhVu H. Nguyen , Xuan-Bach D. Le , Quyet-Thang Huynh

The exploration of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for processing graph-structured data has expanded, particularly their potential for causal analysis due to their universal approximation capabilities. Anticipated to significantly enhance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Simi Job , Xiaohui Tao , Taotao Cai , Lin Li , Haoran Xie , Jianming Yong

Graphs neural networks (GNNs) learn node features by aggregating and combining neighbor information, which have achieved promising performance on many graph tasks. However, GNNs are mostly treated as black-boxes and lack human intelligible…

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