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Graph-structured data are pervasive in the real-world such as social networks, molecular graphs and transaction networks. Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved great success in representation learning on graphs, facilitating various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Zhimeng Guo , Teng Xiao , Zongyu Wu , Charu Aggarwal , Hui Liu , Suhang Wang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) find applications in various domains such as computational biology, natural language processing, and computer security. Owing to their popularity, there is an increasing need to explain GNN predictions since…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Mert Kosan , Zexi Huang , Sourav Medya , Sayan Ranu , Ambuj Singh

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have various practical applications, such as drug discovery, recommendation engines, and chip design. However, GNNs lack transparency as they cannot provide understandable explanations for their predictions. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Samidha Verma , Burouj Armgaan , Sourav Medya , Sayan Ranu

Vulnerability detection is crucial for ensuring the security and reliability of software systems. Recently, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a prominent code embedding approach for vulnerability detection, owing to their ability…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Zhaoyang Chu , Yao Wan , Qian Li , Yang Wu , Hongyu Zhang , Yulei Sui , Guandong Xu , Hai Jin

Graph neural networks have shown great ability in representation (GNNs) learning on graphs, facilitating various tasks. Despite their great performance in modeling graphs, recent works show that GNNs tend to inherit and amplify the bias…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Zhimeng Guo , Jialiang Li , Teng Xiao , Yao Ma , Suhang Wang

Massive deployment of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in high-stake applications generates a strong demand for explanations that are robust to noise and align well with human intuition. Most existing methods generate explanations by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Mohit Bajaj , Lingyang Chu , Zi Yu Xue , Jian Pei , Lanjun Wang , Peter Cho-Ho Lam , Yong Zhang

Hypergraph neural networks (HGNNs) effectively model higher-order interactions in many real-world systems but remain difficult to interpret, limiting their deployment in high-stakes settings. We introduce CF-HyperGNNExplainer, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Fabiano Veglianti , Lorenzo Antonelli , Gabriele Tolomei

Machine learning models that operate on graph-structured data, such as molecular graphs or social networks, often make accurate predictions but offer little insight into why certain predictions are made. Counterfactual explanations address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-21 David Bechtoldt , Sidney Bender

Counterfactual learning is emerging as an important paradigm, rooted in causality, which promises to alleviate common issues of graph neural networks (GNNs), such as fairness and interpretability. However, as in many real-world application…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Dazhuo Qiu , Jinwen Chen , Arijit Khan , Yan Zhao , Francesco Bonchi

Node representation learning, such as Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), has emerged as a pivotal method in machine learning. The demand for reliable explanation generation surges, yet unsupervised models remain underexplored. To bridge this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hyunju Kang , Geonhee Han , Hogun Park

Counterfactuals have been established as a popular explainability technique which leverages a set of minimal edits to alter the prediction of a classifier. When considering conceptual counterfactuals on images, the edits requested should…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Angeliki Dimitriou , Nikolaos Chaidos , Maria Lymperaiou , Giorgos Stamou

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a powerful tool for machine learning on graphs.GNNs combine node feature information with the graph structure by recursively passing neural messages along edges of the input graph. However, incorporating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Rex Ying , Dylan Bourgeois , Jiaxuan You , Marinka Zitnik , Jure Leskovec

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been widely deployed in various real-world applications. However, most GNNs are black-box models that lack explanations. One strategy to explain GNNs is through counterfactual explanation, which aims to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yinhan He , Wendy Zheng , Yaochen Zhu , Jing Ma , Saumitra Mishra , Natraj Raman , Ninghao Liu , Jundong Li

Counterfactual explanations have emerged as a powerful tool to unveil the opaque decision-making processes of graph neural networks (GNNs). However, existing techniques primarily focus on edge modifications, often overlooking the crucial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Flavio Giorgi , Fabrizio Silvestri , Gabriele Tolomei

Deep graph learning models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in processing graph-structured data and have been widely applied across various fields. However, their complex internal architectures and lack of transparency make it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jinlong Hu , Jiacheng Liu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) perform well in community detection and molecule classification. Counterfactual Explanations (CE) provide counter-examples to overcome the transparency limitations of black-box models. Due to the growing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Mario Alfonso Prado-Romero , Bardh Prenkaj , Giovanni Stilo , Fosca Giannotti

Existing rule-based explanations for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) provide global interpretability but often optimize and assess fidelity in an intermediate, uninterpretable concept space, overlooking grounding quality for end users in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Chuqin Geng , Ziyu Zhao , Zhaoyue Wang , Haolin Ye , Yuhe Jiang , Xujie Si

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown satisfying performance in various graph analytical problems. Hence, they have become the \emph{de facto} solution in a variety of decision-making scenarios. However, GNNs could yield biased results…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Yushun Dong , Song Wang , Yu Wang , Tyler Derr , Jundong Li

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are powerful graph-based deep-learning models that have gained significant attention and demonstrated remarkable performance in various domains, including natural language processing, drug discovery, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Jaykumar Kakkad , Jaspal Jannu , Kartik Sharma , Charu Aggarwal , Sourav Medya

Given the increasing promise of graph neural networks (GNNs) in real-world applications, several methods have been developed for explaining their predictions. Existing methods for interpreting predictions from GNNs have primarily focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Ana Lucic , Maartje ter Hoeve , Gabriele Tolomei , Maarten de Rijke , Fabrizio Silvestri
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