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Knowledge Graphs (KGs) enable applications in various domains such as semantic search, recommendation systems, and natural language processing. KGs are often incomplete, missing entities and relations, an issue addressed by Knowledge Graph…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Haji Gul , Abul Ghani Naim , Ajaz Ahmad Bhat

This position paper defends post-hoc explainability methods as legitimate tools for scientific knowledge production in machine learning. Addressing criticism of these methods' reliability and epistemic status, we develop a philosophical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Nick Oh

Knowledge Graphs (KGs) store information in the form of (head, predicate, tail)-triples. To augment KGs with new knowledge, researchers proposed models for KG Completion (KGC) tasks such as link prediction; i.e., answering (h; p; ?) or (?;…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Haris Widjaja , Kiril Gashteovski , Wiem Ben Rim , Pengfei Liu , Christopher Malon , Daniel Ruffinelli , Carolin Lawrence , Graham Neubig

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for link prediction. However, GNNs suffer from poor interpretability, which limits their adoptions in critical scenarios that require knowing why certain links are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Huaisheng Zhu , Dongsheng Luo , Xianfeng Tang , Junjie Xu , Hui Liu , Suhang Wang

Neural networks have achieved remarkable success across various fields. However, the lack of interpretability limits their practical use, particularly in critical decision-making scenarios. Post-hoc interpretability, which provides…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Yang Ji , Ying Sun , Yuting Zhang , Zhigaoyuan Wang , Yuanxin Zhuang , Zheng Gong , Dazhong Shen , Chuan Qin , Hengshu Zhu , Hui Xiong

Knowledge graph completion (KGC) aims to alleviate the inherent incompleteness of knowledge graphs (KGs), which is a critical task for various applications, such as recommendations on the web. Although knowledge graph embedding (KGE) models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Tengfei Ma , Xiang song , Wen Tao , Mufei Li , Jiani Zhang , Xiaoqin Pan , Jianxin Lin , Bosheng Song , xiangxiang Zeng

Knowledge graphs, as the cornerstone of many AI applications, usually face serious incompleteness problems. In recent years, there have been many efforts to study automatic knowledge graph completion (KGC), most of which use existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Xin Lv , Yankai Lin , Zijun Yao , Kaisheng Zeng , Jiajie Zhang , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li

While research on applications and evaluations of explanation methods continues to expand, fairness of the explanation methods concerning disparities in their performance across subgroups remains an often overlooked aspect. In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Mahdi Dhaini , Ege Erdogan , Nils Feldhus , Gjergji Kasneci

Post-hoc explanation methods, e.g., Grad-CAM, enable humans to inspect the spatial regions responsible for a particular network decision. However, it is shown that such explanations are not always consistent with human priors, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Vipin Pillai , Soroush Abbasi Koohpayegani , Ashley Ouligian , Dennis Fong , Hamed Pirsiavash

Generative Knowledge Graph Construction (KGC) refers to those methods that leverage the sequence-to-sequence framework for building knowledge graphs, which is flexible and can be adapted to widespread tasks. In this study, we summarize the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Hongbin Ye , Ningyu Zhang , Hui Chen , Huajun Chen

Knowledge Graph Completion (KGC) fundamentally hinges on the coherent fusion of pre-trained entity semantics with heterogeneous topological structures to facilitate robust relational reasoning. However, existing paradigms encounter a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Xuecheng Zou , Yu Tang , Bingbing Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) achieve state-of-the-art performance in various graph-related tasks. However, the black-box nature often limits their interpretability and trustworthiness. Numerous explainability methods have been proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Jialin Chen , Kenza Amara , Junchi Yu , Rex Ying

Using feature attributions for post-hoc explanations is a common practice to understand and verify the predictions of opaque machine learning models. Despite the numerous techniques available, individual methods often produce inconsistent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Thomas Decker , Ananta R. Bhattarai , Jindong Gu , Volker Tresp , Florian Buettner

Most of the work on interpretable machine learning has focused on designing either inherently interpretable models, which typically trade-off accuracy for interpretability, or post-hoc explanation systems, whose explanation quality can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Gregory Plumb , Maruan Al-Shedivat , Angel Alexander Cabrera , Adam Perer , Eric Xing , Ameet Talwalkar

Knowledge graph completion (KGC) has attracted considerable attention in recent years because it is critical to improving the quality of knowledge graphs. Researchers have continuously explored various models. However, most previous efforts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Linyu Li , Zhi Jin , Yuanpeng He , Dongming Jin , Haoran Duan , Zhengwei Tao , Xuan Zhang , Jiandong Li

Knowledge Graphs (KGs) have shown to be very important for applications such as personal assistants, question-answering systems, and search engines. Therefore, it is crucial to ensure their high quality. However, KGs inevitably contain…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Elwin Huaman , Dieter Fensel

Knowledge graph reasoning (KGR), aiming to deduce new facts from existing facts based on mined logic rules underlying knowledge graphs (KGs), has become a fast-growing research direction. It has been proven to significantly benefit the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Ke Liang , Lingyuan Meng , Meng Liu , Yue Liu , Wenxuan Tu , Siwei Wang , Sihang Zhou , Xinwang Liu , Fuchun Sun

In this paper, we introduce a post-hoc and local explainable AI method tailored for Knowledge Graph Embedding (KGE) models. These models are essential to Knowledge Graph Completion yet criticized for their opaque, black-box nature. Despite…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Christoph Wehner , Chrysa Iliopoulou , Ute Schmid , Tarek R. Besold

Knowledge graphs (KGs) have gained prominence for their ability to learn representations for uni-relational facts. Recently, research has focused on modeling hyper-relational facts, which move beyond the restriction of uni-relational facts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Harry Shomer , Wei Jin , Juanhui Li , Yao Ma , Jiliang Tang

Post-hoc interpretability methods play a critical role in explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), as they pinpoint portions of data that a trained deep learning model deemed important to make a decision. However, different post-hoc…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Jiawen Wei , Hugues Turbé , Gianmarco Mengaldo