Article ; Online: PAGE: Prototype-Based Model-Level Explanations for Graph Neural Networks.
IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence
2024 Volume PP
Abstract: Aside from graph neural networks (GNNs) attracting significant attention as a powerful framework revolutionizing graph representation learning, there has been an increasing demand for explaining GNN models. Although various explanation methods for GNNs ... ...
| Abstract | Aside from graph neural networks (GNNs) attracting significant attention as a powerful framework revolutionizing graph representation learning, there has been an increasing demand for explaining GNN models. Although various explanation methods for GNNs have been developed, most studies have focused on instance-level explanations, which produce explanations tailored to a given graph instance. In our study, we propose Prototype-bAsed GNN-Explainer ([Formula: see text]), a novel model-level GNN explanation method that explains what the underlying GNN model has learned for graph classification by discovering human-interpretable prototype graphs. Our method produces explanations for a given class, thus being capable of offering more concise and comprehensive explanations than those of instance-level explanations. First, [Formula: see text] selects embeddings of class-discriminative input graphs on the graph-level embedding space after clustering them. Then, [Formula: see text] discovers a common subgraph pattern by iteratively searching for high matching node tuples using node-level embeddings via a prototype scoring function, thereby yielding a prototype graph as our explanation. Using six graph classification datasets, we demonstrate that [Formula: see text] qualitatively and quantitatively outperforms the state-of-the-art model-level explanation method. We also carry out ystematic experimental studies by demonstrating the relationship between [Formula: see text] and instance-level explanation methods, the robustness of [Formula: see text] to input data scarce environments, and the computational efficiency of the proposed prototype scoring function in [Formula: see text]. |
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| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2024-03-19 |
| Publishing country | United States |
| Document type | Journal Article |
| ISSN | 1939-3539 |
| ISSN (online) | 1939-3539 |
| DOI | 10.1109/TPAMI.2024.3379251 |
| Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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