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We consider the problem of learning a graph from a finite set of noisy graph signal observations, the goal of which is to find a smooth representation of the graph signal. Such a problem is motivated by the desire to infer relational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Xiaolu Wang , Yuen-Man Pun , Anthony Man-Cho So

Intrinsic interpretability of graph neural networks (GNNs) is to find a small subset of the input graph's features -- rationale -- which guides the model prediction. Unfortunately, the leading rationalization models often rely on data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Ying-Xin Wu , Xiang Wang , An Zhang , Xiangnan He , Tat-Seng Chua

Multi-graph learning is crucial for extracting meaningful signals from collections of heterogeneous graphs. However, effectively integrating information across graphs with differing topologies, scales, and semantics, often in the absence of…

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The need for large amounts of training data in modern machine learning is one of the biggest challenges of the field. Compared to the brain, current artificial algorithms are much less capable of learning invariance transformations and…

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Deep learning based methods hold state-of-the-art results in image denoising, but remain difficult to interpret due to their construction from poorly understood building blocks such as batch-normalization, residual learning, and feature…

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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…

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Unsupervised learning allows us to leverage unlabelled data, which has become abundantly available, and to create embeddings that are usable on a variety of downstream tasks. However, the typical lack of interpretability of unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Gregory Scafarto , Madalina Ciortan , Simon Tihon , Quentin Ferre

Recently a variety of methods have been developed to encode graphs into low-dimensional vectors that can be easily exploited by machine learning algorithms. The majority of these methods start by embedding the graph nodes into a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Yu Jin , Joseph F. JaJa

We propose the Tikhonov layer, a graph neural network layer that is interpretable by design: once trained, its learned parameters directly reveal which node features and which aspects of the graph topology were leveraged for prediction. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Nicolas Tremblay , Benjamin Ricaud , Filippo Maria Bianchi

We introduce Attention Graphs, a new tool for mechanistic interpretability of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and Graph Transformers based on the mathematical equivalence between message passing in GNNs and the self-attention mechanism in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Batu El , Deepro Choudhury , Pietro Liò , Chaitanya K. Joshi

The goal of this work is to address two limitations in autoencoder-based models: latent space interpretability and compatibility with unstructured meshes. This is accomplished here with the development of a novel graph neural network (GNN)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Shivam Barwey , Varun Shankar , Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan , Romit Maulik

Recent work in graph neural networks (GNNs) has led to improvements in molecular activity and property prediction tasks. Unfortunately, GNNs often fail to capture the relative importance of interactions between molecular substructures, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Emmanuel Noutahi , Dominique Beaini , Julien Horwood , Sébastien Giguère , Prudencio Tossou

Spectral-based graph neural networks (SGNNs) have been attracting increasing attention in graph representation learning. However, existing SGNNs are limited in implementing graph filters with rigid transforms (e.g., graph Fourier or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Mingxing Xu , Wenrui Dai , Chenglin Li , Junni Zou , Hongkai Xiong , Pascal Frossard

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

Learning and analysis of network robustness, including controllability robustness and connectivity robustness, is critical for various networked systems against attacks. Traditionally, network robustness is determined by attack simulations,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Yu Zhang , Jia Li , Jie Ding , Xiang Li

Mini-batch training of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) is fundamentally different from training on i.i.d. data: sampling a subgraph alters the topology and introduces boundary effects, leading prior work to develop structure-aware samplers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Clement Wang , Antoine Vialle , Robin Vaysse , Thomas Bonald

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) excel in handling graph-structured data but often underperform in link prediction tasks compared to classical methods, mainly due to the limitations of the commonly used message-passing principle. Notably, their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Niloofar Azizi , Nils Kriege , Horst Bischof

We present a novel methodology to jointly perform multi-task learning and infer intrinsic relationship among tasks by an interpretable and sparse graph. Unlike existing multi-task learning methodologies, the graph structure is not assumed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Shujian Yu , Francesco Alesiani , Ammar Shaker , Wenzhe Yin

The graph neural network (GNN) has demonstrated its superior performance in various applications. The working mechanism behind it, however, remains mysterious. GNN models are designed to learn effective representations for graph-structured…

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