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Counterfactual explanations offer an intuitive way to interpret graph neural networks (GNNs) by identifying minimal changes that alter a model's prediction, thereby answering "what must differ for a different outcome?". In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Yu Zhang , Sean Bin Yang , Arijit Khan , Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora

Explainability is crucial for probing graph neural networks (GNNs), answering questions like "Why the GNN model makes a certain prediction?". Feature attribution is a prevalent technique of highlighting the explanatory subgraph in the input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Xiang Wang , Yingxin Wu , An Zhang , Fuli Feng , Xiangnan He , Tat-Seng Chua

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

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

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

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

Benefiting from the message passing mechanism, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been successful on flourish tasks over graph data. However, recent studies have shown that attackers can catastrophically degrade the performance of GNNs by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Kuan Li , Yang Liu , Xiang Ao , Jianfeng Chi , Jinghua Feng , Hao Yang , Qing He

We consider graph representation learning in a self-supervised manner. Graph neural networks (GNNs) use neighborhood aggregation as a core component that results in feature smoothing among nodes in proximity. While successful in various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Wei Zhuo , Guang Tan

This paper presents an unsupervised method to learn a neural network, namely an explainer, to interpret a pre-trained convolutional neural network (CNN), i.e., explaining knowledge representations hidden in middle conv-layers of the CNN.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Quanshi Zhang , Yu Yang , Yuchen Liu , Ying Nian Wu , Song-Chun Zhu

With the rapid deployment of graph neural networks (GNNs) based techniques into a wide range of applications such as link prediction, node classification, and graph classification the explainability of GNNs has become an indispensable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Yiqiao Li , Jianlong Zhou , Boyuan Zheng , Fang Chen

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have drawn significant research attention recently, mostly under the setting of semi-supervised learning. When task-agnostic representations are preferred or supervision is simply unavailable, the auto-encoder…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Mingyue Tang , Carl Yang , Pan Li

We present the Topology Transformation Equivariant Representation learning, a general paradigm of self-supervised learning for node representations of graph data to enable the wide applicability of Graph Convolutional Neural Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Xiang Gao , Wei Hu , Guo-Jun Qi

Existing Graph Neural Network (GNN) methods that learn inductive unsupervised graph representations focus on learning node and edge representations by predicting observed edges in the graph. Although such approaches have shown advances in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Leonardo Cotta , Carlos H. C. Teixeira , Ananthram Swami , Bruno Ribeiro

Graph representation learning has achieved notable success in encoding graph-structured data into latent vector spaces, enabling a wide range of downstream tasks. However, these node representations remain opaque and difficult to interpret.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Vasiliki Papanikou , Evaggelia Pitoura

Graphical models capture relations between entities in a wide range of applications including social networks, biology, and natural language processing, among others. Graph neural networks (GNN) are neural models that operate over graphs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Xu Zheng , Farhad Shirani , Tianchun Wang , Shouwei Gao , Wenqian Dong , Wei Cheng , Dongsheng Luo

Graph neural network (GNN) explanations have largely been facilitated through post-hoc introspection. While this has been deemed successful, many post-hoc explanation methods have been shown to fail in capturing a model's learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Donald Loveland , Shusen Liu , Bhavya Kailkhura , Anna Hiszpanski , Yong Han

Machine learning models that operate on graph-structured data, such as molecular graphs or social networks, often make accurate predictions but offer little insight into why certain predictions are made. Counterfactual explanations address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-21 David Bechtoldt , Sidney Bender

Due to the superior performance of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in various domains, there is an increasing interest in the GNN explanation problem "\emph{which fraction of the input graph is the most crucial to decide the model's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Qinghua Zheng , Jihong Wang , Minnan Luo , Yaoliang Yu , Jundong Li , Lina Yao , Xiaojun Chang

Nowadays, research into personalization has been focusing on explainability and fairness. Several approaches proposed in recent works are able to explain individual recommendations in a post-hoc manner or by explanation paths. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Giacomo Medda , Francesco Fabbri , Mirko Marras , Ludovico Boratto , Gianni Fenu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful machine learning prediction models on graph-structured data. However, GNNs lack rigorous uncertainty estimates, limiting their reliable deployment in settings where the cost of errors is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Kexin Huang , Ying Jin , Emmanuel Candès , Jure Leskovec