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This paper presents Gem, a model-agnostic approach for providing interpretable explanations for any GNNs on various graph learning tasks. Specifically, we formulate the problem of providing explanations for the decisions of GNNs as a causal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Wanyu Lin , Hao Lan , Baochun Li

Recent advancements in graph learning have revolutionized the way to understand and analyze data with complex structures. Notably, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), i.e. neural network architectures designed for learning graph representations,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Yu Huang , Min Zhou , Menglin Yang , Zhen Wang , Muhan Zhang , Jie Wang , Hong Xie , Hao Wang , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

We consider the explanation problem of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). Most existing GNN explanation methods identify the most important edges or nodes but fail to consider substructures, which are more important for graph data. The only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Zhaoning Yu , Hongyang Gao

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable performance in a wide range of graph-related learning tasks. However, explaining their predictions remains a challenging problem, especially due to the mismatch between the graphs used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zhuomin Chen , Jingchao Ni , Hojat Allah Salehi , Xu Zheng , Dongsheng Luo

Recent advances in the integration of deep learning with automated theorem proving have centered around the representation of logical formulae as inputs to deep learning systems. In particular, there has been a growing interest in adapting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Maxwell Crouse , Ibrahim Abdelaziz , Cristina Cornelio , Veronika Thost , Lingfei Wu , Kenneth Forbus , Achille Fokoue

We propose a multi-explanation graph attention network (MEGAN). Unlike existing graph explainability methods, our network can produce node and edge attributional explanations along multiple channels, the number of which is independent of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Jonas Teufel , Luca Torresi , Patrick Reiser , Pascal Friederich

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become essential tools for analyzing graph-structured data in domains such as drug discovery and financial analysis, leading to growing demands for model transparency. Recent advances in explainable GNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Bin Ma , Yuyuan Feng , Minhua Lin , Enyan Dai

Graph signal processing represents an important advancement in the field of data analysis, extending conventional signal processing methodologies to complex networks and thereby facilitating the exploration of informative patterns and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-07 Keivan Faghih Niresi , Lucas Kuhn , Gaëtan Frusque , Olga Fink

Explaining Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) has garnered significant attention due to the need for interpretability, enabling users to understand the behavior of these black-box models better and extract valuable insights from their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jiaxing Zhang , Xiaoou Liu , Dongsheng Luo , Hua Wei

It is natural for probabilistic programs to use conditionals to express alternative substructures in models, and loops (recursion) to express repeated substructures in models. Thus, probabilistic programs with conditionals and recursion…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-10-26 David Chiang , Chung-chieh Shan

Machine Learning algorithms are increasingly being used in recent years due to their flexibility in model fitting and increased predictive performance. However, the complexity of the models makes them hard for the data analyst to interpret…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-07 Joel Vaughan , Agus Sudjianto , Erind Brahimi , Jie Chen , Vijayan N. Nair

In applications, quantities of interest are often modelled in equilibrium or an equilibrium solution is sought. The presence of confounding makes causal inference in this setting challenging. We provide interpretable graphical models for…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-27 Kai Z. Teh , Kayvan Sadeghi , Terry Soo

Learning an explainable classifier often results in low accuracy model or ends up with a huge rule set, while learning a deep model is usually more capable of handling noisy data at scale, but with the cost of hard to explain the result and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Yuanlong Li , Gaopan Huang , Min Zhou , Chuan Fu , Honglin Qiao , Yan He

Uncovering rationales behind predictions of graph neural networks (GNNs) has received increasing attention over the years. Existing literature mainly focus on selecting a subgraph, through combinatorial optimization, to provide faithful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Wenqian Li , Yinchuan Li , Zhigang Li , Jianye Hao , Yan Pang

Rule-based explanation methods offer rigorous and globally interpretable insights into neural network behavior. However, existing approaches are mostly limited to small fully connected networks and depend on costly layerwise rule extraction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Chuqin Geng , Anqi Xing , Li Zhang , Ziyu Zhao , Yuhe Jiang , Xujie Si

Many explainable AI (XAI) techniques strive for interpretability by providing concise salient information, such as sparse linear factors. However, users either only see inaccurate global explanations, or highly-varying local explanations.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Jessica Y. Bo , Pan Hao , Brian Y. Lim

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are quickly becoming the standard approach for learning on graph structured data across several domains, but they lack transparency in their decision-making. Several perturbation-based approaches have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Anna Himmelhuber , Mitchell Joblin , Martin Ringsquandl , Thomas Runkler

Recent years have witnessed a rapid growth of recommender systems, providing suggestions in numerous applications with potentially high social impact, such as health or justice. Meanwhile, in Europe, the upcoming AI Act mentions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Simon Delarue , Astrid Bertrand , Tiphaine Viard

In this paper, we investigate the degree of explainability of graph neural networks (GNNs). Existing explainers work by finding global/local subgraphs to explain a prediction, but they are applied after a GNN has already been trained. Here,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Indro Spinelli , Simone Scardapane , Aurelio Uncini

This article introduces PAGE, a parameterized generative interpretive framework. PAGE is capable of providing faithful explanations for any graph neural network without necessitating prior knowledge or internal details. Specifically, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Yang Qiu , Wei Liu , Jun Wang , Ruixuan Li