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Self-explainable deep neural networks are a recent class of models that can output ante-hoc local explanations that are faithful to the model's reasoning, and as such represent a step forward toward filling the gap between expressiveness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Marc Christiansen , Lea Villadsen , Zhiqiang Zhong , Stefano Teso , Davide Mottin

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are powerful graph-based deep-learning models that have gained significant attention and demonstrated remarkable performance in various domains, including natural language processing, drug discovery, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Jaykumar Kakkad , Jaspal Jannu , Kartik Sharma , Charu Aggarwal , Sourav Medya

Machine learning techniques often lack formal correctness guarantees, evidenced by the widespread adversarial examples that plague most deep-learning applications. This lack of formal guarantees resulted in several research efforts that aim…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Anahita Baninajjar , Ahmed Rezine , Amir Aminifar

Revealing the transparency of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has been widely studied to describe the decision mechanisms of network inner structures. In this paper, we propose a novel post-hoc framework, Unfold and Conquer Attribution Guidance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jung-Ho Hong , Woo-Jeoung Nam , Kyu-Sung Jeon , Seong-Whan Lee

To solve the problem that convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are difficult to process non-grid type relational data like graphs, Kipf et al. proposed a graph convolutional neural network (GCN). The core idea of the GCN is to perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Shangsheng Xie , Mingming Lu

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

Feature attribution is often loosely presented as the process of selecting a subset of relevant features as a rationale of a prediction. Task-dependent by nature, precise definitions of "relevance" encountered in the literature are however…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Darius Afchar , Romain Hennequin , Vincent Guigue

Recent years have witnessed an increasing number of interpretation methods being developed for improving transparency of NLP models. Meanwhile, researchers also try to answer the question that whether the obtained interpretation is faithful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Ninghao Liu , Yunsong Meng , Xia Hu , Tie Wang , Bo Long

Recent legislative regulations have underlined the need for accountable and transparent artificial intelligence systems and have contributed to a growing interest in the Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) field. Nonetheless, the lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Ilaria Vascotto , Alex Rodriguez , Alessandro Bonaita , Luca Bortolussi

Understanding the decision-making process of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) is crucial to their interpretability. Most existing methods for explaining GNNs typically rely on training auxiliary models, resulting in the explanations remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Shengyao Lu , Keith G. Mills , Jiao He , Bang Liu , Di Niu

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

To advance the transparency of learning machines such as Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), the field of Explainable AI (XAI) was established to provide interpretations of DNNs' predictions. While different explanation techniques exist, a popular…

We analyze state-of-the-art deep learning models for three tasks: question answering on (1) images, (2) tables, and (3) passages of text. Using the notion of \emph{attribution} (word importance), we find that these deep networks often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Pramod Kaushik Mudrakarta , Ankur Taly , Mukund Sundararajan , Kedar Dhamdhere

Faithfully summarizing the knowledge encoded by a deep neural network (DNN) into a few symbolic primitive patterns without losing much information represents a core challenge in explainable AI. To this end, Ren et al. (2024) have derived a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Lu Chen , Siyu Lou , Benhao Huang , Quanshi Zhang

With the rapid growth of machine learning, deep neural networks (DNNs) are now being used in numerous domains. Unfortunately, DNNs are "black-boxes", and cannot be interpreted by humans, which is a substantial concern in safety-critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Shahaf Bassan , Guy Katz

There is broad agreement in the literature that explanation methods should be faithful to the model that they explain, but faithfulness remains a rather vague term. We revisit faithfulness in the context of continuous data and propose two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Nico Potyka , Xiang Yin , Francesca Toni

This paper studies faithful explanations for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). First, we provide a new and general method for formally characterizing the faithfulness of explanations for GNNs. It applies to existing explanation methods,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Zifan Wang , Yuhang Yao , Chaoran Zhang , Han Zhang , Youjie Kang , Carlee Joe-Wong , Matt Fredrikson , Anupam Datta

As Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have demonstrated superhuman performance in a variety of fields, there is an increasing interest in understanding the complex internal mechanisms of DNNs. In this paper, we propose Relative Attributing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Woo-Jeoung Nam , Shir Gur , Jaesik Choi , Lior Wolf , Seong-Whan Lee

DeConvNet, Guided BackProp, LRP, were invented to better understand deep neural networks. We show that these methods do not produce the theoretically correct explanation for a linear model. Yet they are used on multi-layer networks with…

State of the art Deep Neural Networks (DNN) can now achieve above human level accuracy on image classification tasks. However their outstanding performances come along with a complex inference mechanism making them arduously interpretable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Fei Wu , Thomas Michel , Alexandre Briot