English
Related papers

Related papers: Towards Fine-Grained Explainability for Heterogene…

200 papers

We consider the problem of explaining the predictions of graph neural networks (GNNs), which otherwise are considered as black boxes. Existing methods invariably focus on explaining the importance of graph nodes or edges but ignore the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Hao Yuan , Haiyang Yu , Jie Wang , Kang Li , Shuiwang Ji

This paper investigates the integration of graph neural networks (GNNs) with Qualitative Explainable Graphs (QXGs) for scene understanding in automated driving. Scene understanding is the basis for any further reactive or proactive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Nassim Belmecheri , Arnaud Gotlieb , Nadjib Lazaar , Helge Spieker

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are gaining extensive attention for their application in graph data. However, the black-box nature of GNNs prevents users from understanding and trusting the models, thus hampering their applicability. Whereas…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Qizhang Feng , Ninghao Liu , Fan Yang , Ruixiang Tang , Mengnan Du , Xia Hu

In recent years, the remarkable success of graph neural networks (GNNs) on graph-structured data has prompted a surge of methods for explaining GNN predictions. However, the state-of-the-art for GNN explainability remains in flux. Different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Jesse He , Akbar Rafiey , Gal Mishne , Yusu Wang

Many real-world datasets, such as citation networks, social networks, and molecular structures, are naturally represented as heterogeneous graphs, where nodes belong to different types and have additional features. For example, in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Pallabee Das , Stefan Heindorf

As post hoc explanations are increasingly used to understand the behavior of graph neural networks (GNNs), it becomes crucial to evaluate the quality and reliability of GNN explanations. However, assessing the quality of GNN explanations is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Chirag Agarwal , Owen Queen , Himabindu Lakkaraju , Marinka Zitnik

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are predominantly tailored for graphs displaying homophily, where similar nodes connect, but often fail on heterophilic graphs. The strategy of adopting distinct approaches to learn from homophilic and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Han Lei , Jiaxing Xu , Xia Dong , Yiping Ke

We formulate an XAI-based model improvement approach for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for node classification, called Explanation Enhanced Graph Learning (EEGL). The goal is to improve predictive performance of GNN using explanations. EEGL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Harish G. Naik , Jan Polster , Raj Shekhar , Tamás Horváth , György Turán

Graph neural network, as a powerful graph representation technique based on deep learning, has shown superior performance and attracted considerable research interest. However, it has not been fully considered in graph neural network for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Xiao Wang , Houye Ji , Chuan Shi , Bai Wang , Peng Cui , P. Yu , Yanfang Ye

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

On graph data, the multitude of node or edge types gives rise to heterogeneous information networks (HINs). To preserve the heterogeneous semantics on HINs, the rich node/edge types become a cornerstone of HIN representation learning.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Trung-Kien Nguyen , Zemin Liu , Yuan Fang

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

With the growing use of deep learning methods, particularly graph neural networks, which encode intricate interconnectedness information, for a variety of real tasks, there is a necessity for explainability in such settings. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Harsh Patel , Shivam Sahni

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 2022-12-20 Tianxiang Zhao , Dongsheng Luo , Xiang Zhang , Suhang Wang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been extensively developed for graph representation learning in various application domains. However, similar to all other neural networks models, GNNs suffer from the black-box problem as people cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Peibo Li , Yixing Yang , Maurice Pagnucco , Yang Song

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as the de facto standard for modeling graph data, with attention mechanisms and transformers significantly enhancing their performance on graph-based tasks. Despite these advancements, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Nikhil Shivakumar Nayak

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have demonstrated excellent performance in semi-supervised node classification tasks. Despite this, two primary challenges persist: heterogeneity and heterophily. Each of these two challenges can significantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Kangkang Lu , Yanhua Yu , Zhiyong Huang , Yunshan Ma , Xiao Wang , Meiyu Liang , Yuling Wang , Yimeng Ren , Tat-Seng Chua

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved outstanding performance across a wide range of graph-related tasks. However, their "black-box" nature poses significant challenges to their explainability, and existing methods often fail to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Lijun Wu , Dong Hao , Zhiyi Fan

Predictions made by graph neural networks (GNNs) usually lack interpretability due to their complex computational behavior and the abstract nature of graphs. In an attempt to tackle this, many GNN explanation methods have emerged. Their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Zhong Li , Simon Geisler , Yuhang Wang , Stephan Günnemann , Matthijs van Leeuwen

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