awesome-graph-explainability-papers
Papers about the explainability of GNNs
Surveys
- [Proceedings of the IEEE 24] Trustworthy Graph Neural Networks: Aspects, Methods and Trends paper
- [Preprint 24] Graph-Based Explainable AI: A Comprehensive Survey paper
- [Arixv 23] A Survey on Explainability of Graph Neural Networks paper
- [ACM computing survey] A Survey on Graph Counterfactual Explanations: Definitions, Methods, Evaluation, and Research Challenges paper
- [TPAMI 22]Explainability in graph neural networks: A taxonomic survey. Yuan Hao, Yu Haiyang, Gui Shurui, Ji Shuiwang. paper
- [Arxiv 22]A Survey of Explainable Graph Neural Networks: Taxonomy and Evaluation Metrics paper
- [Arxiv 22] A Survey of Trustworthy Graph Learning: Reliability, Explainability, and Privacy Protection paper
- [Big Data 2022]A Survey of Explainable Graph Neural Networks for Cyber Malware Analysis paper
- [Arxiv 23] A Comprehensive Survey on Trustworthy Graph Neural Networks: Privacy, Robustness, Fairness, and Explainabilitypaper
- [Arxiv 22] Explaining the Explainers in Graph Neural Networks: a Comparative Study paper
- [Book 23] Generative Explanation for Graph Neural Network: Methods and Evaluation paper
Platforms
- PyTorch Geometric [Document] [Blog]
- DIG: A Turnkey Library for Diving into Graph Deep Learning Research paper Code
- GraphXAI: Evaluating Explainability for Graph Neural Networks paper Code
- GraphFramEx: Towards Systematic Evaluation of Explainability Methods for Graph Neural Networks paper Code
- GNNExplainer and PGExplainer paper Code
- BAGEL: A Benchmark for Assessing Graph Neural Network Explanations [paper]Code
- Explainability in graph neural networks: A taxonomic survey. Yuan Hao, Yu Haiyang, Gui Shurui, Ji Shuiwang. ARXIV 2020. paper
- Gnnexplainer: Generating explanations for graph neural networks. Ying Rex, Bourgeois Dylan, You Jiaxuan, Zitnik Marinka, Leskovec Jure. NeurIPS 2019. paper code
- Explainability methods for graph convolutional neural networks. Pope Phillip E, Kolouri Soheil, Rostami Mohammad, Martin Charles E, Hoffmann Heiko. CVPR 2019.paper
- Parameterized Explainer for Graph Neural Network. Luo Dongsheng, Cheng Wei, Xu Dongkuan, Yu Wenchao, Zong Bo, Chen Haifeng, Zhang Xiang. NeurIPS 2020. paper code
- Xgnn: Towards model-level explanations of graph neural networks. Yuan Hao, Tang Jiliang, Hu Xia, Ji Shuiwang. KDD 2020. paper.
- Evaluating Attribution for Graph Neural Networks. Sanchez-Lengeling Benjamin, Wei Jennifer, Lee Brian, Reif Emily, Wang Peter, Qian Wesley, McCloskey Kevin, Colwell Lucy, Wiltschko Alexander. NeurIPS 2020.paper
- PGM-Explainer: Probabilistic Graphical Model Explanations for Graph Neural Networks. Vu Minh, Thai My T.. NeurIPS 2020.paper
- Explanation-based Weakly-supervised Learning of Visual Relations with Graph Networks. Federico Baldassarre and Kevin Smith and Josephine Sullivan and Hossein Azizpour. ECCV 2020.paper
- GCAN: Graph-aware Co-Attention Networks for Explainable Fake News Detection on Social Media. Lu, Yi-Ju and Li, Cheng-Te. ACL 2020.paper
- On Explainability of Graph Neural Networks via Subgraph Explorations. Yuan Hao, Yu Haiyang, Wang Jie, Li Kang, Ji Shuiwang. ICML 2021.paper
Year 2024
- [NeurIPS 24] RegExplainer: Generating Explanations for Graph Neural Networks in Regression Task [paper]
- [NeurIPS 24] GraphTrail: Translating GNN Predictions into Human-Interpretable Logical Rules[paper]
- [ICML 24] Generating In-Distribution Proxy Graphs for Explaining Graph Neural Networks[paper]
- [ICML 24] Predicting and Interpreting Energy Barriers of Metallic Glasses with Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [ICML 24] Graph Neural Network Explanations are Fragile [paper]
- [ICML 24] How Interpretable Are Interpretable Graph Neural Networks? [paper]
- [ICML 24] Feature Attribution with Necessity and Sufficiency via Dual-stage Perturbation Test for Causal Explanation[paper]
- [ICML 24] Explaining Graph Neural Networks via Structure-aware Interaction Index [paper]
- [ICML 24] EiG-Search: Generating Edge-Induced Subgraphs for GNN Explanation in Linear Time [paper]
- [ICLR 24] GraphChef: Decision-Tree Recipes to Explain Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [ICLR 24] GOAt: Explaining Graph Neural Networks via Graph Output Attribution [paper]
- [ICLR 24] Towards Robust Fidelity for Evaluating Explainability of Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [ICLR 24] GNNX-BENCH: Unravelling the Utility of Perturbation-based GNN Explainers through In-depth Benchmarking [paper]
- [ICLR 24] UNR-Explainer: Counterfactual Explanations for Unsupervised Node Representation Learning Models [paper]
- [TPAMI 24] Towards Inductive and Efficient Explanations for Graph Neural Networks[paper]
- [Openreview 24] Robust Graph Attention for Graph Adversarial Attacks: An Information Bottleneck Inspired Approach[paper]
- [Openreview 24] AIMing for Explainability in GNNs[paper]
- [Openreview 24] Exact Computation of Any-Order Shapley Interactions for Graph Neural Networks[paper]
- [Openreview 24] Graph Distributional Analytics: Enhancing GNN Explainability through Scalable Embedding and Distribution Analysis[paper]
- [Openreview 24] From GNNs to Trees: Multi-Granular Interpretability for Graph Neural Networks[paper]
- [Openreview 24] Watermarking Graph Neural Networks Via Explanations For Ownership Protection[paper]
- [Openreview 24] Explainable Graph Representation Learning via Graph Pattern Analysis [paper]
- [Openreview 24] Provably Robust Explainable Graph Neural Networks against Graph Perturbation Attacks [paper]
- [Openreview 24] Robust Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network Explainer with Graph Information Bottleneck [paper]
- [Openreview 24] A Hierarchical Language Model Design For Interpretable Graph Reasoning [paper]
- [Openreview 24] The GECo algorithm for Graph Neural Networks Explanation [paper]
- [Openreview 24] On Explaining Equivariant Graph Networks via Improved Relevance Propagation [paper]
- [Openreview 24] SIG: Self-Interpretable Graph Neural Network for Continuous-time Dynamic Graphs [paper]
- [Openreview 24] Interpretable and Adaptive Graph Contrastive Learning with Information Sharing for Biomedical Link Prediction [paper]
- [Openreview 24] Towards Explaining the Power of Constant-depth Graph Neural Networks for Linear Programming [paper]
- [Openreview 24] TAGExplainer: Narrating Graph Explanations for Text-Attributed Graph Learning Models [paper]
- [Openreview 24] Explanations of GNN on Evolving Graphs via Axiomatic Layer edges [paper]
- [Openreview 24] TreeX: Generating Global Graphical GNN Explanations via Critical Subtree Extraction [paper]
- [TMLR 24] InduCE: Inductive Counterfactual Explanations for Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [PLDI 24] PL4XGL: A Programming Language Approach to Explainable Graph Learning[paper]
- [Usenix Security 24] INSIGHT: Attacking Industry-Adopted Learning Resilient Logic Locking Techniques Using Explainable Graph Neural Network[paper]
- [SIGMOD 24]View-based Explanations for Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [ACM SIGMOD Record] The Road to Explainable Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [Thesis UCLA] Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Graph Data[paper]
- [Thesis UVA] Algorithmic Fairness in Graph Machine Learning: Explanation, Optimization, and Certification[paper]
- [KDD 24] SEFraud: Graph-based Self-Explainable Fraud Detection via Interpretative Mask Learning[paper]
- [KDD 24] Self-Explainable Temporal Graph Networks based on Graph Information Bottleneck[paper]
- [KDD 24] Unveiling Global Interactive Patterns across Graphs: Towards Interpretable Graph Neural Networks[paper]
- [ICDE 24] Generating Robust Counterfactual Witnesses for Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [ICDE 24] SES: Bridging the Gap Between Explainability and Prediction of Graph Neural Networks[paper]
- [ICSE 24] Coca: Improving and Explaining Graph Neural Network-Based Vulnerability Detection Systems[paper]
- [AAAI 24] Generating Diagnostic and Actionable Explanations for Fair Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [AAAI 24] Stratifed GNN Explanations through Sufficient Expansion[paper]
- [AAAI 24] Factorized Explainer for Graph Neural Networks[paper]
- [AAAI 24] Self-Interpretable Graph Learning with Sufficient and Necessary Explanations
- [AAAI 24] Explainable Origin-Destination Crowd Flow Interpolation via Variational Multi-Modal Recurrent Graph Auto-Encoder [paper]
- [AISTATS 24] Two Birds with One Stone: Enhancing Uncertainty Quantification and Interpretability with Graph Functional Neural Process [paper]
- [WWW 24] Game-theoretic Counterfactual Explanation for Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [WWW 24] EXGC: Bridging Efficiency and Explainability in Graph Condensation[paper]
- [WWW 24] Adversarial Mask Explainer for Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [WWW 24] Globally Interpretable Graph Learning via Distribution Matching[paper]
- [WWW 24] GNNShap: Scalable and Accurate GNN Explanation using Shapley Values [paper]
- [TAI 24] Learning Counterfactual Explanation of Graph Neural Networks via Generative Flow Network[paper]
- [TAI 24] Traffexplainer: A Framework towards GNN-based Interpretable Traffic Prediction [paper]
- [TMC 24] HGExplainer: Heterogeneous Graph Explainer for IoT Device Identification[paper]
- [IEEE TMI 24] Multi-Modal Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease using Interpretable Graph Convolutional Networks[paper]
- [IEEE IoT 24] EXVul: Toward Effective and Explainable Vulnerability Detection for IoT Devices[paper]
- [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems] Towards Embedding Ambiguity-Sensitive Graph Neural Network Explainability [paper]
- [IEEE JBHI] Interpretable Dynamic Directed Graph Convolutional Network for Multi-Relational Prediction of Missense Mutation and Drug Response[paper]
- [IDEAL 2024] Causal Explanation of Graph Neural Networks[paper]
- [CIKM 24] EDGE: Evaluation Framework for Logical vs. Subgraph Explanations for Node Classifiers on Knowledge Graphs[paper]
- [ECML/PKDD 24] Towards Few-shot Self-explaining Graph Neural Networks[paper]
- [SDM 24] XGExplainer: Robust Evaluation-based Explanation for Graph Neural Networks[paper]
- [DASFAA 24] Multi-objective Graph Neural Network Explanatory Model with Local and Global Information Preservation[paper]
- [ISSTA 2024] Graph Neural Networks for Vulnerability Detection: A Counterfactual Explanation [paper]
- [KBS 24] Shapley-based graph explanation in embedding space[paper]
- [KBS 24] GEAR: Learning graph neural network explainer via adjusting gradients[paper]
- [IEEE TNSM 24] Ensemble Graph Attention Networks for Cellular Network Analytics: From Model Creation to Explainability[paper]
- [IEEE TNSE 24] GAXG: A Global and Self-adaptive Optimal Graph Topology Generation Framework for Explaining Graph Neural Networks[paper]
- [IEEE TETCI 24] GF-LRP: A Method for Explaining Predictions Made by Variational Graph Auto-Encoders[paper]
- [AAAI workshop] Semi-Supervised Graph Representation Learning with Human-centric Explanation for Predicting Fatty Liver Disease[paper]
- [xAI 24] Global Concept Explanations for Graphs by Contrastive Learning [paper]
- [Arxiv 24.11] Rethinking Node Representation Interpretation through Relation Coherence[paper]
- [Arxiv 24.11] MBExplainer: Multilevel bandit-based explanations for downstream models with augmented graph embeddings [paper]
- [Preprint 24.10] Reliable and Faithful Generative Explainers for Graph Neural Networks[paper]
- [Arxiv 24.10] Explaining Hypergraph Neural Networks: From Local Explanations to Global Concepts[paper]
- [Arxiv 24.10] Explaining Hypergraph Neural Networks: From Local Explanations to Global Concepts [paper]
- [Arxiv 24.09] GraphGI:A GNN Explanation Method using Game Interaction [paper]
- [Arxiv 24.09] GINTRIP: Interpretable Temporal Graph Regression using Information bottleneck and Prototype-based method [paper]
- [Arxiv 24.09] PAGE: Parametric Generative Explainer for Graph Neural Network [paper]
- [Arxiv 24.09] Higher Order Structures For Graph Explanations [paper]
- [Arxiv 24.08] SE-SGformer: A Self-Explainable Signed Graph Transformer for Link Sign Prediction[paper]
- [Preprint 24.08] CIDER: Counterfactual-Invariant Diffusion-based GNN Explainer for Causal Subgraph Inference[paper]
- [Arxiv 24.07] LLMExplainer: Large Language Model based Bayesian Inference for Graph Explanation Generation[paper]
- [Arxiv 24.07] xAI-Drop: Don't Use What You Cannot Explain[paper]
- [Arxiv 24.07] Explaining Graph Neural Networks for Node Similarity on Graphs[paper]
- [Arxiv 24.07] SLInterpreter: An Exploratory and Iterative Human-AI Collaborative System for GNN-based Synthetic Lethal Prediction[paper]
- [Arxiv 24.07] Graph Neural Network Causal Explanation via Neural Causal Models[paper]
- [Arxiv 24.06] GNNAnatomy: Systematic Generation and Evaluation of Multi-Level Explanations for Graph Neural Networks[paper]
- [Arxiv 24.06] On GNN explanability with activation rules[paper]
- [Arxiv 24.06] Revisiting Attention Weights as Interpretations of Message-Passing Neural Networks[paper]
- [Arxiv 24.05] SIG: Efficient Self-Interpretable Graph Neural Network for Continuous-time Dynamic Graphs[paper]
- [Arxiv 24.06] Towards Understanding Sensitive and Decisive Patterns in Explainable AI: A Case Study of Model Interpretation in Geometric Deep Learning[paper]
- [Arxiv 24.06] Explainable Graph Neural Networks Under Fire [paper]
- [Arxiv 24.06] Explainable AI Security: Exploring Robustness of Graph Neural Networks to Adversarial Attacks [paper]
- [Arxiv 24.06] Perks and Pitfalls of Faithfulness in Regular, Self-Explainable and Domain Invariant GNNs [paper]
- [Arxiv 24.05] Utilizing Description Logics for Global Explanations of Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [Arxiv 24.05] MAGE: Model-Level Graph Neural Networks Explanations via Motif-based Graph Generation [paper]
- [Arxiv 24.05] Detecting Complex Multi-step Attacks with Explainable Graph Neural Network [paper]
- [Arxiv 24.05] SynHING: Synthetic Heterogeneous Information Network Generation for Graph Learning and Explanation[paper]
- [Preprint 24.05] Explainable Graph Neural Networks: An Application to Open Statistics Knowledge Graphs for Estimating House Prices [paper]
- [Arxiv 24.04] Superior Polymeric Gas Separation Membrane Designed by Explainable Graph Machine Learning [paper]
- [Arxiv 24.04] Improving the interpretability of GNN predictions through conformal-based graph sparsification [paper]
- [Arxiv 24.03] GreeDy and CoDy: Counterfactual Explainers for Dynamic Graph[paper]
- [Arxiv 24.03] Explainable Graph Neural Networks for Observation Impact Analysis in Atmospheric State Estimation[paper]
- [Arxiv 24.03] Securing GNNs: Explanation-Based Identification of Backdoored Training Graphs[paper]
- [Arixv 24.03] Iterative Graph Neural Network Enhancement via Frequent Subgraph Mining of Explanations[paper]
- [Arxiv 24.03] Explainable Graph Neural Networks for Observation Impact Analysis in Atmospheric State Estimation[paper]
- [Arxiv 24.02] PAC Learnability under Explanation-Preserving Graph Perturbations[paper]
- [Arxiv 24.02] Explainable Global Wildfire Prediction Models using Graph Neural Networks[paper]
- [Arxiv 24.02] Incorporating Retrieval-based Causal Learning with Information Bottlenecks for Interpretable Graph Neural Networks[paper]
- [Arxiv 24.01] On Discprecncies between Perturbation Evaluations of Graph Neural Network Attributions[paper]
- [ASP=DAC 24] LIPSTICK: Corruptibility-Aware and Explainable Graph Neural Network-based Oracle-Less Attack on Logic Locking[paper]
- [Biorxiv 24] Community-aware explanations in knowledge graphs with XP-GNN[paper]
- [ISCV 24] Adaptive Subgraph Feature Extraction for Explainable Multi-Modal Learning[paper]
- [IJCNN] Explanations for Graph Neural Networks using A Game-theoretic Value[paper]
- [Neurocomputing] GeoExplainer: Interpreting Graph Convolutional Networks with geometric masking[paper]
- [Technologies] Explainable Graph Neural Networks: An Application to Open Statistics Knowledge Graphs for Estimating House Prices[paper]
- [Reliab. Eng. Syst. Saf.] Causal intervention graph neural network for fault diagnosis of complex industrial processes[paper]
- [Frontiers in big data] Global explanation supervision for Graph Neural Networks[paper]
- [Information and Software Technology] Graph-based explainable vulnerability prediction[paper]
- [Information Systems] Heterogeneous graph neural networks for fraud detection and explanation in supply chain finance[paper]
- [Information Procs. & Mana.] Towards explaining graph neural networks via preserving prediction ranking and structural dependency[paper]
- [Applied Energy] Explainable Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Networks for multi-site photovoltaic energy production [paper]
- [PAKDD 24] Random Mask Perturbation Based Explainable Method of Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [Computational Materials Science] Graph isomorphism network for materials property prediction along with explainability analysis[paper]
- [NN 24] Explanatory subgraph attacks against Graph Neural Networks[paper]
- [NN 24] GRAM: An interpretable approach for graph anomaly detection using gradient attention maps[paper]
- [Neural Networks 24] CI-GNN: A Granger Causality-Inspired Graph Neural Network for Interpretable Brain Network-Based Psychiatric Diagnosis [paper]
- [NeuroImage 24] BPI-GNN: Interpretable brain network-based psychiatric diagnosis and subtyping[paper]
- [PAKDD 24] Toward Interpretable Graph Classification via Concept-Focused Structural Correspondence [paper]
- [MedRxiv 24] An Interpretable Population Graph Network to Identify Rapid Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease Using UK Biobank[paper]
- [IEEE TDSC 24] TrustGuard: GNN-based Robust and Explainable Trust Evaluation with Dynamicity Support [paper]
- [IEEE Transactions] IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems[paper]
- [Journal of Physics] Explainer on GNN-based segmentation networks[paper]
- [Energy and AI] Electricity demand forecasting at distribution and household levels using explainable causal graph neural network [paper]
- [HI-AI@KDD 24] Interpretable Graph Model with Prototype-Based Graph Information Bottleneck [paper]
- [NeSy 2024] Towards Understanding Graph Neural Networks: Functional-Semantic Activation Mapping[paper]
- [Thesis 24] Explainable and physics-guided graph deep learning for air pollution modelling [paper]
Year 2023
- [NeurIPS 23] Interpretable Graph Networks Formulate Universal Algebra Conjectures[paper]
- [NeurIPS 23] SAME: Uncovering GNN Black Box with Structure-aware Shapley-based Multipiece Explanation [paper]
- [NeurIPS 23] Train Once and Explain Everywhere: Pre-training Interpretable Graph Neural Networks[paper]
- [NeurIPS 23] D4Explainer: In-distribution Explanations of Graph Neural Network via Discrete Denoising Diffusion [paper]
- [NeurIPS 23] TempME: Towards the Explainability of Temporal Graph Neural Networks via Motif Discovery [paper]
- [NeurIPS 23] V-InFoR: A Robust Graph Neural Networks Explainer for Structurally Corrupted Graphs [paper]
- [NeurIPS 23] Towards Self-Interpretable Graph-Level Anomaly Detection [paper]
- [NeurIPS 23] Evaluating Post-hoc Explanations for Graph Neural Networks via Robustness Analysis [paper]
- [NeurIPS 23] Interpretable Prototype-based Graph Information Bottleneck [paper]
- [ICML 23] Rethinking Explaining Graph Neural Networks via Non-parametric Subgraph Matching [paper]
- [ICML 23] Relevant Walk Search for Explaining Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [ICML 23] Towards Understanding the Generalization of Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [ICLR 23] GNNInterpreter: A Probabilistic Generative Model-Level Explanation for Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [ICLR 23] Global Explainability of GNNs via Logic Combination of Learned Concepts [paper]
- [ICLR 23] Explaining Temporal Graph Models through an Explorer-Navigator Framework [paper]
- [ICLR 23] DAG Matters! GFlowNets Enhanced Explainer for Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [ICLR 23] Interpretable Geometric Deep Learning via Learnable Randomness Injection [paper]
- [ICLR 23] A Differential Geometric View and Explainability of GNN on Evolving Graphs [paper]
- [KDD 23] MixupExplainer: Generalizing Explanations for Graph Neural Networks with Data Augmentation [paper]
- [KDD 23] Counterfactual Learning on Heterogeneous Graphs with Greedy Perturbation [paper]
- [KDD 23] Empower Post-hoc Graph Explanations with Information Bottleneck: A Pre-training and Fine-tuning Perspective[paper]
- [KDD 23] Less is More: SlimG for Accurate, Robust, and Interpretable Graph Mining.[paper]
- [KDD 23] Shift-Robust Molecular Relational Learning with Causal Substructure [paper]
- [AAAI 23] Global Concept-Based Interpretability for Graph Neural Networks via Neuron Analysis [paper]
- [AAAI 23] On the Limit of Explaining Black-box Temporal Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [AAAI 23] Towards Fine-Grained Explainability for Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network [paper]
- [AAAI 23] Interpretable Chirality-Aware Graph Neural Network for Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship Modeling in Drug Discovery [paper]
- [VLDB 23] HENCE-X: Toward Heterogeneity-agnostic Multi-level Explainability for Deep Graph Networks [paper]
- [VLDB 23] On Data-Aware Global Explainability of Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [AISTATS 23] Distill n' Explain: explaining graph neural networks using simple surrogates [Paper]
- [AISTATS 23] Probing Graph Representations [paper]
- [ICDE 23] INGREX: An Interactive Explanation Framework for Graph Neural Networks[paper]
- [ICDE 23] Jointly Attacking Graph Neural Network and its Explanations [paper]
- [WWW 23]PaGE-Link: Path-based Graph Neural Network Explanation for Heterogeneous Link Prediction [paper]
- [ICDM 23] Limitations of Perturbation-based Explanation Methods for Temporal Graph Neural Networks
- [ICDM 23] Interpretable Subgraph Feature Extraction for Hyperlink Prediction[paper]
- [WSDM 23]Interpretable Research Interest Shift Detection with Temporal Heterogeneous Graphs [paper]
- [WSDM 23]Cooperative Explanations of Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [WSDM 23]Towards Faithful and Consistent Explanations for Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [WSDM 23] Global Counterfactual Explainer for Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [CIKM 23] Explainable Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [CIKM 23] DuoGAT: Dual Time-oriented Graph Attention Networks for Accurate, Efficient and Explainable Anomaly Detection on Time-series. [paper]
- [CIKM 23] Heterogeneous Temporal Graph Neural Network Explainer [paper]
- [CIKM 23] ACGAN-GNNExplainer: Auxiliary Conditional Generative Explainer for Graph Neural Networks[[paper]]()
- [CIKM 23] KG4Ex: An Explainable Knowledge Graph-Based Approach for Exercise Recommendation [paper]
- [ECML-PKDD 23] ENGAGE: Explanation Guided Data Augmentation for Graph Representation Learning [paper]
- [TPAMI 23] FlowX: Towards Explainable Graph Neural Networks via Message Flows [paper]
- [TAI] Prototype-based interpretable graph neural networks. [paper]
- [TKDE 23] Counterfactual Graph Learning for Anomaly Detection on Attributed Networks [paper]
- [Scientific Data 23 ] Evaluating explainability for graph neural networks [paper]
- [Nature Communications 23] Chemistry-intuitive explanation of graph neural networks for molecular property prediction with substructure masking [paper]
- [ACM Computing Surveys 23] A Survey on Graph Counterfactual Explanations: Definitions, Methods, Evaluation [paper]
- [TIST 23] Faithful and Consistent Graph Neural Network Explanations with Rationale Alignment [paper]
- [Openreview 23] STExplainer: Global Explainability of GNNs via Frequent SubTree Mining [paper]
- [GLFrontiers 23] Everybody Needs a Little HELP: Explaining Graphs via Hierarchical Concepts [paper]
- [Openreview 23] Iterative Graph Neural Network Enhancement Using Explanations [paper]
- [Openreview 23] Interpretable and Convergent Graph Neural Network Layers at Scale [paper]
- [NeurIPS 2023 Workshop XAIA] GInX-Eval: Towards In-Distribution Evaluation of Graph Neural Networks Explanations [paper]
- [NeurIPS 2023 Workshop XAIA] On the Consistency of GNN Explainability Methods [paper]
- [Arxiv 23] Evaluating Neighbor Explainability for Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [Arxiv 23] DyExplainer: Explainable Dynamic Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [Arxiv 23] Explainability-Based Adversarial Attack on Graphs Through Edge Perturbation[paper]
- [AICS 23] A subgraph interpretation generative model for knowledge graph link prediction based on uni-relation transformation [paper]
- [GUT 23] Screening of normal endoscopic large bowel biopsies with interpretable graph learning: a retrospective study [paper]
- [PR 2023] Towards self-explainable graph convolutional neural network with frequency adaptive inception [paper]
- [MLG 2023] Understanding how explainers work in graph neural networks [paper]
- [MLG 2023] Graph Model Explainer Tool [paper]
- [Information Science 23] Robust explanations for graph neural network with neuron explanation component [paper]
- [Recsys 23] Explainable Graph Neural Network Recommenders; Challenges and Opportunities [paper]
- [xAI 23] Counterfactual Explanations for Graph Classification Through the Lenses of Density [paper]
- [XAI 23] Evaluating Link Prediction Explanations for Graph Neural Networks [[paper]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01682
- [xAI 23] XInsight: Revealing Model Insights for GNNs with Flow-based Explanations [paper]
- [xAI 23] Quantifying the Intrinsic Usefulness of Attributional Explanations for Graph Neural Networks with Artificial Simulatability Studies [paper]
- [xAI 23] MEGAN: Multi Explanation Graph Attention Network [paper]
- [XKDD 23] Game Theoretic Explanations for Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [XKDD 23] From Black Box to Glass Box: Evaluating Faithfulness of Process Predictions with GCNNs [paper]
- [IJCNN 23] MEGA: Explaining Graph Neural Networks with Network Motifs [paper]
- [LOG Poster 23] On the Robustness of Post-hoc GNN Explainers to Label Noise [paper]
- [LOG Poster 23] How Faithful are Self-Explainable GNNs? [paper]
- [LOG Poster 23] Explaining Link Predictions in Knowledge Graph Embedding Models with Influential Examples [paper]
- [Bioriv 23] Building explainable graph neural network by sparse learning for the drug-protein binding prediction [paper]
- [ICAID 2023] Explanations for Graph Neural Networks via Layer Analysis. [paper]
- [ECAI 23] XGBD: Explanation-Guided Graph Backdoor Detection [paper]
- [IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics 23] Human Pose Prediction Using Interpretable Graph Convolutional Network for Smart Home [paper]
- [KBS 23] KE-X: Towards subgraph explanations of knowledge graph embedding based on knowledge information gain [paper]
- [ICML workshop 23] Generating Global Factual and Counterfactual Explainer for Molecule under Domain Constraints [paper]
- [Thesis 23] Developing interpretable graph neural networks for high dimensional feature spaces [paper]
- [Thesis 23] Evaluation of Explainability Methods on Single-Cell Classification Tasks Using Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [Arxiv 23] On the Interplay of Subset Selection and Informed Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [ISSTA23] Interpreters for GNN-Based Vulnerability Detection: Are We There Yet? [paper]
- [ICECAI23] Improved GraphSVX for GNN Explanations Based on Cross Entropy [paper]
- [ICRA Workshop 23] Towards Semantic Interpretation and Validation of Graph Attention-based Explanations [paper]
- [Arxiv 23] Graph Neural Network based Log Anomaly Detection and Explanation [paper]
- [Arxiv 23] Interpreting GNN-based IDS Detections Using Provenance Graph Structural Features [paper]
- [Thesis 23] Interpretability of Graphical Models [paper]
- [Bioengineering 2023] Personalized Explanations for Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease Using Explainable Graph Neural Networks with Population Graphs [paper]
- [BDSC 2023] MDC: An Interpretable GNNs Method Based on Node Motif Degree and Graph Diffusion Convolution [[paper]] (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-99-3925-1_24)
- [Information Science 2023] Explainability techniques applied to road traffic forecasting using Graph Neural Network models [paper]
- [Arxiv 23] Efficient GNN Explanation via Learning Removal-based Attribution [paper]
- [Arxiv 23] Empowering Counterfactual Reasoning over Graph Neural Networks through Inductivity [paper]
- [ICLR Tiny 23] Message-passing selection: Towards interpretable GNNs for graph classification [paper]
- [ICLR Tiny 23] Revisiting CounteRGAN for Counterfactual Explainability of Graphs [paper]
- [MICCAI Workshop 23] IA-GCN: Interpretable Attention based Graph Convolutional Network for Disease prediction [paper]
- [Arxiv 23] Robust Ante-hoc Graph Explainer using Bilevel Optimization [paper]
- [GRADES & NDA'23] A Demonstration of Interpretability Methods for Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [Arxiv 23] Self-Explainable Graph Neural Networks for Link Prediction [paper]
- [ChemRxiv 23] Interpreting Graph Neural Networks with Myerson Values for Cheminformatics Approaches [paper]
- [Neural Networks 23] Generating Post-hoc Explanations for Skip-gram-based Node Embeddings by Identifying Important Nodes with Bridgeness [paper]
- [ICASSP 23] Towards a More Stable and General Subgraph Information Bottleneck [paper]
- [ESANN 23] Combining Stochastic Explainers and Subgraph Neural Networks can Increase Expressivity and Interpretability [Paper]
- [IEEE Access] Generating Real-Time Explanations for GNNs via Multiple Specialty Learners and Online Knowledge Distillation [Paper]
- [IEEE Access] Providing Post-Hoc Explanation for Node Representation Learning Models Through Inductive Conformal Predictions [paper]
- [Journal of Software 23] A Slice-level vulnerability detection and interpretation method based on graph neural network [paper]
- [Automation in Construction 23] Learning from explainable data-driven tunneling graphs: A spatio-temporal graph convolutional network for clogging detection [paper]
- [Briefings in Bioinformatics] Predicting molecular properties based on the interpretable graph neural network with multistep focus mechanism [paper]
- [Briefings in Bioinformatics] Identification of vital chemical information via visualization of graph neural networks [paper]
- [Bioinformatics 23] Explainable Multilayer Graph Neural Network for Cancer Gene Prediction [paper]
- [ICLR Workshop 23] GCI: A Graph Concept Interpretation Framework [paper]
- [Arxiv 23] Structural Explanations for Graph Neural Networks using HSIC [paper]
- [Internet of Things 23] XG-BoT: An Explainable Deep Graph Neural Network for Botnet Detection and Forensics [paper]
- [JOS23] A Generic Explaining & Locating Method for Malware Detection based on Graph Neural Networks [paper]
Year 2022
- [NeurIPS 22] GStarX:Explaining Graph-level Predictions with Communication Structure-Aware Cooperative Games [paper]
- [NeurIPS 22] Debiasing Graph Neural Networks via Learning Disentangled Causal Substructure [paper]
- [NeurIPS 22] Task-Agnostic Graph Neural Explanations [paper]
- [NeurIPS 22] CLEAR: Generative Counterfactual Explanations on Graphs[paper]
- [ICML 22] Interpretable and Generalizable Graph Learning via Stochastic Attention Mechanism [paper]
- [ICLR 22] DEGREE: Decomposition Based Explanation for Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [ICLR 22] Explainable GNN-Based Models over Knowledge Graphs [paper]
- [ICLR 22] Discovering Invariant Rationales for Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [KDD 22] On Structural Explanation of Bias in Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [KDD 22] Causal Attention for Interpretable and Generalizable Graph Classification [paper]
- [CVPR 22] OrphicX: A Causality-Inspired Latent Variable Model for Interpreting Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [CVPR 22] Improving Subgraph Recognition with Variational Graph Information Bottleneck [paper]
- [AISTATS 22] Probing GNN Explainers: A Rigorous Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of GNN Explanation Methods [paper]
- [AISTATS 22] CF-GNNExplainer: Counterfactual Explanations for Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [TPAMI 22] Differentially Private Graph Neural Networks for Whole-Graph Classification [paper]
- [TPAMI 22] Reinforced Causal Explainer for Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [VLDB 22] xFraud: Explainable Fraud Transaction Detection on Heterogeneous Graphs [paper]
- [LOG 22]GraphFramEx: Towards Systematic Evaluation of Explainability Methods for Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [LOG 22] Towards Training GNNs using Explanation Directed Message Passing [paper]
- [The Webconf 22] Learning and Evaluating Graph Neural Network Explanations based on Counterfactual and Factual Reasoning [paper]
- [AAAI 22] Prototype-Based Explanations for Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [AAAI 22] KerGNNs: Interpretable Graph Neural Networks with Graph Kernels[paper]
- [AAAI 22] ProtGNN: Towards Self-Explaining Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [IEEE Big Data 22] Trade less Accuracy for Fairness and Trade-off Explanation for GNN [paper]
- [CIKM 22] GRETEL: A unified framework for Graph Counterfactual Explanation Evaluation [paper]
- [CIKM 22] GRETEL: Graph Counterfactual Explanation Evaluation Framework[paper]
- [CIKM 22] A Model-Centric Explainer for Graph Neural Network based Node Classification [paper]
- [IJCAI 22] What Does My GNN Really Capture? On Exploring Internal GNN Representations [paper]
- [ECML PKDD 22] Improving the quality of rule-based GNN explanations [paper]
- [MICCAI 22] Interpretable Graph Neural Networks for Connectome-Based Brain Disorder Analysis [paper]
- [MICCAI 22] Sparse Interpretation of Graph Convolutional Networks for Multi-modal Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease [paper]
- [EuroS&P 22] Illuminati: Towards Explaining Graph Neural Networks for Cybersecurity Analysis [paper]
- [INFOCOM 22] Interpretability Evaluation of Botnet Detection Model based on Graph Neural Network [paper]
- [GLOBECOM 22] Shapley Explainer - An Interpretation Method for GNNs Used in SDN [paper]
- [GLOBECOM 22] An Explainer for Temporal Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [TKDE 22] Zorro: Valid, Sparse, and Stable Explanations in Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [TNNLS 22] Interpretable Graph Reservoir Computing With the Temporal Pattern Attention [paper]
- [TNNLS22] A Meta-Learning Approach for Training Explainable Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [TNNLS 22] Explaining Deep Graph Networks via Input Perturbation [paper]
- [TNNLS 22] A Meta-Learning Approach for Training Explainable Graph Neural Network [paper]
- [DMKD 22] On GNN explanability with activation patterns [paper]
- [KBS 22] EGNN: Constructing explainable graph neural networks via knowledge distillation [paper]
- [XKDD 22] GREASE: Generate Factual and Counterfactual Explanations for GNN-based Recommendations [paper]
- [AI 22] Are Graph Neural Network Explainers Robust to Graph Noises? [paper]
- [BRACIS 22] ConveXplainer for Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [GLB 22] An Explainable AI Library for Benchmarking Graph Explainers [paper]
- [DASFAA 22] On Global Explainability of Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [ISBI 22] Interpretable Graph Convolutional Network Of Multi-Modality Brain Imaging For Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis [paper]
- [Bioinformatics] GNN-SubNet: disease subnetwork detection with explainable Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [Medical Imaging 2022] Phenotype guided interpretable graph convolutional network analysis of fMRI data reveals changing brain connectivity during adolescence [paper]
- [NeuroComputing 22] Perturb more, trap more: Understanding behaviors of graph neural networks [paper]
- [DSN 22] CFGExplainer: Explaining Graph Neural Network-Based Malware Classification from Control Flow Graphs [paper]
- [IEEE Access 22] Providing Node-level Local Explanation for node2vec through Reinforcement Learning [paper]
- [Patterns 22] Quantitative Evaluation of Explainable Graph Neural Networks for Molecular Property Prediction [paper]
- [Arxiv 22] GRAPHSHAP: Motif-based Explanations for Black-box Graph Classifiers [paper]
- [IEEE Access 22] Providing Post-Hoc Explanation for Node Representation Learning Models Through Inductive Conformal Predictions [paper]
- [IEEE 22] Explaining Graph Neural Networks With Topology-Aware Node Selection: Application in Air Quality Inference [paper]
- [BioRxiv 22] GNN-SubNet: disease subnetwork detection with explainable Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 22] Efficient and Interpretable Robot Manipulation with Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [Arxiv 22] Deconfounding to Explanation Evaluation in Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [ICCPR 22] GANExplainer: GAN-based Graph Neural Networks Explainer [paper]
- [Arxiv 22] On the Probability of Necessity and Sufficiency of Explaining Graph Neural Networks: A Lower Bound Optimization Approach [paper]
- [Arxiv 22] Exploring Explainability Methods for Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [Arxiv 22] PAGE: Prototype-Based Model-Level Explanations for Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [Arxiv 22] Toward Multiple Specialty Learners for Explaining GNNs via Online Knowledge Distillation [paper]
- [Openreview 23] TGP: Explainable Temporal Graph Neural Networks for Personalized Recommendation [paper]
- [Openreview 23] On Regularization for Explaining Graph Neural Networks: An Information Theory Perspective [paper]
- [Arxiv 22] L2XGNN: Learning to Explain Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [Arxiv 22] Towards Prototype-Based Self-Explainable Graph Neural Network [paper]
- [Arxiv 22] PGX: A Multi-level GNN Explanation Framework Based on Separate Knowledge Distillation Processes [paper]
- [Arxiv 22] Explainability in subgraphs-enhanced Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [Arxiv 22] Defending Against Backdoor Attack on Graph Neural Network by Explainability [paper]
- [Arxiv 22] Explaining Dynamic Graph Neural Networks via Relevance Back-propagation [paper]
- [Arxiv 22] EiX-GNN : Concept-level eigencentrality explainer for graph neural networks [paper]
- [Arxiv 22] MotifExplainer: a Motif-based Graph Neural Network Explainer [paper]
- [Arxiv 22] Faithful Explanations for Deep Graph Models [paper]
- [Arxiv 22] Towards Explanation for Unsupervised Graph-Level Representation Learning [paper]
- [Arxiv 22] BAGEL: A Benchmark for Assessing Graph Neural Network Explanations [paper]
- [Arxiv 22] BrainIB: Interpretable Brain Network-based Psychiatric Diagnosis with Graph Information Bottleneck [paper]
- [Arxiv 22] A Comprehensive Survey on Trustworthy Graph Neural Networks: Privacy, Robustness, Fairness, and Explainability [paper]
- [Arxiv 22] Explainability in Graph Neural Networks: An Experimental Survey [paper]
- [IEEE TSIPN 22] Explainability and Graph Learning from Social Interactions [paper]
- [Arxiv 22] Cognitive Explainers of Graph Neural Networks Based on Medical Concepts [paper]
Year 2021
- [NeurIPS 21] SALKG: Learning From Knowledge Graph Explanations for Commonsense Reasoning [paper]
- [NeurIPS 2021] Reinforcement Learning Enhanced Explainer for Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [NeurIPS 2021] Towards Multi-Grained Explainability for Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [NeurIPS 2021] Robust Counterfactual Explanations on Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [ICML 2021] On Explainability of Graph Neural Networks via Subgraph Explorations[paper]
- [ICML 2021] Generative Causal Explanations for Graph Neural Networks[paper]
- [ICML 2021] Improving Molecular Graph Neural Network Explainability with Orthonormalization and Induced Sparsity[paper]
- [ICML 2021] Automated Graph Representation Learning with Hyperparameter Importance Explanation[paper]
- [ICLR 2021] Interpreting Graph Neural Networks for NLP With Differentiable Edge Masking[paper]
- [ICLR 2021] Graph Information Bottleneck for Subgraph Recognition [paper]
- [KDD 2021] When Comparing to Ground Truth is Wrong: On Evaluating GNN Explanation Methods[paper]
- [KDD 2021] Counterfactual Graphs for Explainable Classification of Brain Networks [paper]
- [CVPR 2021] Quantifying Explainers of Graph Neural Networks in Computational Pathology.[paper]
- [NAACL 2021] Counterfactual Supporting Facts Extraction for Explainable Medical Record Based Diagnosis with Graph Network. [paper]
- [AAAI 2021] Motif-Driven Contrastive Learning of Graph Representations [paper]
- [TPAMI 21] Higher-Order Explanations of Graph Neural Networks via Relevant Walks [paper]
- [WWW 2021] Interpreting and Unifying Graph Neural Networks with An Optimization Framework [paper]
- [Genome medicine 21] Explaining decisions of Graph Convolutional Neural Networks: patient-specific molecular subnetworks responsible for metastasis prediction in breast cancer [paper]
- [IJCKG 21] Knowledge Graph Embedding in E-commerce Applications: Attentive Reasoning, Explanations, and Transferable Rules [paper]
- [RuleML+RR 21] Combining Sub-Symbolic and Symbolic Methods for Explainability [paper]
- [PAKDD 21] SCARLET: Explainable Attention based Graph Neural Network for Fake News spreader prediction [paper]
- [J. Chem. Inf. Model] Coloring Molecules with Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Preclinical Relevance Assessment [paper]
- [BioRxiv 21] APRILE: Exploring the Molecular Mechanisms of Drug Side Effects with Explainable Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [ISM 21] Edge-Level Explanations for Graph Neural Networks by Extending Explainability Methods for Convolutional Neural Networks [paper]
- [Arxiv 21] Towards the Explanation of Graph Neural Networks in Digital Pathology with Information Flows [paper]
- [Arxiv 21] SEEN: Sharpening Explanations for Graph Neural Networks using Explanations from Neighborhoods [paper]
- [Arxiv 21] Preserve, Promote, or Attack? GNN Explanation via Topology Perturbation [paper]
- [Arxiv 21] Learnt Sparsification for Interpretable Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [ICML workshop 21] GCExplainer: Human-in-the-Loop Concept-based Explanations for Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [ICML workshop 21] Reliable Graph Neural Network Explanations Through Adversarial Training [paper]
- [ICML workshop 21] Reimagining GNN Explanations with ideas from Tabular Data [paper]
- [ICML workshop 21] Towards Automated Evaluation of Explanations in Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [ICDM 2021] GNES: Learning to Explain Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [ICDM 2021] GCN-SE: Attention as Explainability for Node Classification in Dynamic Graphs [paper]
- [ICDM 2021] Multi-objective Explanations of GNN Predictions [paper]
- [CIKM 2021] Towards Self-Explainable Graph Neural Network [paper]
- [ECML PKDD 2021] GraphSVX: Shapley Value Explanations for Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [WiseML 2021] Explainability-based Backdoor Attacks Against Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [IJCNN 21] MEG: Generating Molecular Counterfactual Explanations for Deep Graph Networks [paper]
- [ICCSA 2021] Understanding Drug Abuse Social Network Using Weighted Graph Neural Networks Explainer [paper]
- [NeSy 21] A New Concept for Explaining Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [Information Fusion 21] Towards multi-modal causability with Graph Neural Networks enabling information fusion for explainable AI [paper]
- [Patterns 21] hcga: Highly Comparative Graph Analysis for network phenotyping [paper]
Year 2020 and Before
- [NeurIPS 2020] Parameterized Explainer for Graph Neural Network.[paper]
- [NeurIPS 2020] PGM-Explainer: Probabilistic Graphical Model Explanations for Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [KDD 2020] XGNN: Towards Model-Level Explanations of Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [ACL 2020]GCAN: Graph-aware Co-Attention Networks for Explainable Fake News Detection on Social Media. paper
- [Arxiv 2020] Graph Neural Networks Including Sparse Interpretability [paper]
- [NeurIPS Workshop 20] Towards explainable message passing networks for predicting carbon dioxide adsorption in metal-organic frameworks [paper]
- [ICML workstop 2020] Contrastive Graph Neural Network Explanation [paper]
- [ICML workstop 2020] Towards Explainable Graph Representations in Digital Pathology [paper]
- [NeurIPS workshop 2020] Explaining Deep Graph Networks with Molecular Counterfactuals [paper]
- [DataMod 2020] Exploring Graph-Based Neural Networks for Automatic Brain Tumor Segmentation" [paper]
- [OpenReview 20] A Framework For Differentiable Discovery Of Graph Algorithms [paper]
- [OpenReview 20] Causal Screening to Interpret Graph Neural Networks [paper]
- [Arxiv 20] Understanding Graph Neural Networks from Graph Signal Denoising Perspectives [paper]
- [Arxiv 20] Understanding the Message Passing in Graph Neural Networks via Power Iteration [paper]
- [Arxiv 20] xERTE: Explainable Reasoning on Temporal Knowledge Graphs for Forecasting Future Links [paper]
- [IJCNN 20] GCN-LRP explanation: exploring latent attention of graph convolutional networks] [paper]
- [CD-MAKE 20] Explain Graph Neural Networks to Understand Weighted Graph Features in Node Classification [paper]
- [ICDM 19] Scalable Explanation of Inferences on Large Graphs[paper]