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Transparency and accountability have become major concerns for black-box machine learning (ML) models. Proper explanations for the model behavior increase model transparency and help researchers develop more accountable models. Graph neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Shichang Zhang , Jiani Zhang , Xiang Song , Soji Adeshina , Da Zheng , Christos Faloutsos , Yizhou Sun

Despite recent progress in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), explaining predictions made by GNNs remains a challenging open problem. The leading method independently addresses the local explanations (i.e., important subgraph structure and node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Dongsheng Luo , Wei Cheng , Dongkuan Xu , Wenchao Yu , Bo Zong , Haifeng Chen , Xiang Zhang

Link prediction attempts to predict whether an unseen edge exists based on only a portion of edges of a graph. A flurry of methods have been introduced in recent years that attempt to make use of graph neural networks (GNNs) for this task.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Juanhui Li , Harry Shomer , Haitao Mao , Shenglai Zeng , Yao Ma , Neil Shah , Jiliang Tang , Dawei Yin

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

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely used for node classification, yet their opaque decision-making limits trust and adoption. While local explanations offer insights into individual predictions, global explanation methods, those that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Burouj Armgaan , Eshan Jain , Harsh Pandey , Mahesh Chandran , Sayan Ranu

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

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in a wide range of tasks, such as node classification, link prediction, and graph classification, by exploiting the structural information in graph-structured data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Oscar Llorente , Jaime Boal , Eugenio F. Sánchez-Úbeda , Antonio Diaz-Cano , Miguel Familiar

While graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown a great potential in various tasks on graph, the lack of transparency has hindered understanding how GNNs arrived at its predictions. Although few explainers for GNNs are explored, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Chaojie Ji , Ruxin Wang , Hongyan Wu

Link prediction is a key problem for network-structured data. Link prediction heuristics use some score functions, such as common neighbors and Katz index, to measure the likelihood of links. They have obtained wide practical uses due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Muhan Zhang , Yixin Chen

Identifying critical nodes and links in graphs is a crucial task. These nodes/links typically represent critical elements/communication links that play a key role in a system's performance. However, a majority of the methods available in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Sai Munikoti , Laya Das , Balasubramaniam Natarajan

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) excel in graph-based learning tasks, but their complex, non-linear operations often render them as opaque "black boxes". This opacity hinders user trust, complicates debugging, bias detection, and adoption in…

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Deep learning methods are achieving ever-increasing performance on many artificial intelligence tasks. A major limitation of deep models is that they are not amenable to interpretability. This limitation can be circumvented by developing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Hao Yuan , Haiyang Yu , Shurui Gui , Shuiwang Ji

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have become a popular approach to integrating structural inductive biases into NLP models. However, there has been little work on interpreting them, and specifically on understanding which parts of the graphs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Michael Sejr Schlichtkrull , Nicola De Cao , Ivan Titov

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are widely used in the applications based on graph structured data, such as node classification and link prediction. However, GNNs are often used as a black-box tool and rarely get in-depth investigated…

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As Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are increasingly being employed in critical real-world applications, several methods have been proposed in recent literature to explain the predictions of these models. However, there has been little to no…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Chirag Agarwal , Marinka Zitnik , Himabindu Lakkaraju

One significant challenge of exploiting Graph neural networks (GNNs) in real-life scenarios is that they are always treated as black boxes, therefore leading to the requirement of interpretability. To address this, model-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Xiao Yue , Guangzhi Qu , Lige Gan

Graph neural networks are prominent models for representation learning over graph-structured data. While the capabilities and limitations of these models are well-understood for simple graphs, our understanding remains incomplete in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Xingyue Huang , Miguel Romero Orth , İsmail İlkan Ceylan , Pablo Barceló

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown remarkable effectiveness in capturing abundant information in graph-structured data. However, the black-box nature of GNNs hinders users from understanding and trusting the models, thus leading to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Jiaxuan Xie , Yezi Liu , Yanning Shen

Inferring missing links or detecting spurious ones based on observed graphs, known as link prediction, is a long-standing challenge in graph data analysis. With the recent advances in deep learning, graph neural networks have been used for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Xingping Xian , Tao Wu , Xiaoke Ma , Shaojie Qiao , Yabin Shao , Chao Wang , Lin Yuan , Yu Wu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful models that can manage complex data sources and their interconnection links. One of GNNs' main drawbacks is their lack of interpretability, which limits their application in sensitive fields. In…

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