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We investigate the enhancement of graph neural networks' (GNNs) representation power through their ability in substructure counting. Recent advances have seen the adoption of subgraph GNNs, which partition an input graph into numerous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Zuoyu Yan , Junru Zhou , Liangcai Gao , Zhi Tang , Muhan Zhang

Enhancing the interpretability of graph neural networks (GNNs) is crucial to ensure their safe and fair deployment. Recent work has introduced self-explainable GNNs that generate explanations as part of training, improving both faithfulness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Fanzhen Liu , Xiaoxiao Ma , Jian Yang , Alsharif Abuadbba , Kristen Moore , Surya Nepal , Cecile Paris , Quan Z. Sheng , Jia Wu

Graphical models capture relations between entities in a wide range of applications including social networks, biology, and natural language processing, among others. Graph neural networks (GNN) are neural models that operate over graphs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Xu Zheng , Farhad Shirani , Tianchun Wang , Shouwei Gao , Wenqian Dong , Wei Cheng , Dongsheng Luo

We propose a subgraph importance estimation method for pretrained Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) on graph-level tasks, formulated as a linear Group Lasso regression problem in the embedding space. Our method effectively leverages prior domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Changhyun Kim , Seunghwan An , Jong-June Jeon

As Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely adopted in digital pathology, there is increasing attention to developing explanation models (explainers) of GNNs for improved transparency in clinical decisions. Existing explainers discover an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Junchi Yu , Tingyang Xu , Ran He

Interpretable graph neural networks (XGNNs ) are widely adopted in various scientific applications involving graph-structured data. Existing XGNNs predominantly adopt the attention-based mechanism to learn edge or node importance for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Yongqiang Chen , Yatao Bian , Bo Han , James Cheng

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as an efficient alternative to convolutional approaches for vision tasks such as image classification, leveraging patch-based representations instead of raw pixels. These methods construct graphs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Nikolaos Chaidos , Angeliki Dimitriou , Nikolaos Spanos , Athanasios Voulodimos , Giorgos Stamou

Uncovering rationales behind predictions of graph neural networks (GNNs) has received increasing attention over recent years. Instance-level GNN explanation aims to discover critical input elements, like nodes or edges, that the target GNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Tianxiang Zhao , Dongsheng Luo , Xiang Zhang , Suhang Wang

Subgraph-enhanced graph neural networks (SGNN) can increase the expressive power of the standard message-passing framework. This model family represents each graph as a collection of subgraphs, generally extracted by random sampling or with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Indro Spinelli , Michele Guerra , Filippo Maria Bianchi , Simone Scardapane

Graph Neural Networks operate through bottom-up message-passing, fundamentally differing from human visual perception, which intuitively captures global structures first. We investigate the underappreciated potential of vision models for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Xinjian Zhao , Wei Pang , Zhongkai Xue , Xiangru Jian , Lei Zhang , Yaoyao Xu , Xiaozhuang Song , Shu Wu , Tianshu Yu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a predominant method for graph representation learning. However, beyond subgraph frequency estimation, their application to network motif significance-profile (SP) prediction remains under-explored, with no…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Pedro C. Vieira , Miguel E. P. Silva , Pedro Manuel Pinto Ribeiro

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) resurge as a trending research subject owing to their impressive ability to capture representations from graph-structured data. However, the black-box nature of GNNs presents a significant challenge in terms of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Tianchun Wang , Dongsheng Luo , Wei Cheng , Haifeng Chen , Xiang Zhang

The reasoning process of Graph Neural Networks is complex and considered opaque, limiting trust in their predictions. To alleviate this issue, prior work has proposed concept-based explanations, extracted from clusters in the model's node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Lucie Charlotte Magister , Alexander Norcliffe , Iulia Duta , Pietro Lio

Subgraph isomorphism counting is an important problem on graphs, as many graph-based tasks exploit recurring subgraph patterns. Classical methods usually boil down to a backtracking framework that needs to navigate a huge search space with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Xingtong Yu , Zemin Liu , Yuan Fang , Xinming Zhang

Graph neural networks have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance on knowledge graph tasks such as link prediction. However, interpreting GNN predictions remains a challenging open problem. While many GNN explainability methods have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Ryoji Kubo , Djellel Difallah

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have received remarkable success in link prediction (GNNLP) tasks. Existing efforts first predefine the subgraph for the whole dataset and then apply GNNs to encode edge representations by leveraging the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Qiaoyu Tan , Xin Zhang , Ninghao Liu , Daochen Zha , Li Li , Rui Chen , Soo-Hyun Choi , Xia Hu

Many machine learning algorithms for tabular data produce black-box models, which prevent users from understanding the rationale behind the model predictions. In their unconstrained form, graph neural networks fall into this category, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Amr Alkhatib , Henrik Boström

This paper explores the applications and challenges of graph neural networks (GNNs) in processing complex graph data brought about by the rapid development of the Internet. Given the heterogeneity and redundancy problems that graph data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Jianjun Wei , Yue Liu , Xin Huang , Xin Zhang , Wenyi Liu , Xu Yan

We propose the fully explainable Decision Tree Graph Neural Network (DT+GNN) architecture. In contrast to existing black-box GNNs and post-hoc explanation methods, the reasoning of DT+GNN can be inspected at every step. To achieve this, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Peter Müller , Lukas Faber , Karolis Martinkus , Roger Wattenhofer

Graph neural network (GNN) explainers identify the important subgraph that ensures the prediction for a given graph. Until now, almost all GNN explainers are based on association, which is prone to spurious correlations. We propose {\name},…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Arman Behnam , Binghui Wang