Summary of Faithful Interpretation For Graph Neural Networks, by Lijie Hu et al.
Faithful Interpretation for Graph Neural Networks
by Lijie Hu, Tianhao Huang, Lu Yu, Wanyu Lin, Tianhang Zheng, Di Wang
First submitted to arxiv on: 9 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a new approach to improving the interpretability of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) called Faithful Graph Attention-based Interpretation (FGAI). GNNs like Graph Attention Networks (GATs) and Graph Transformers (GTs) have shown significant performance boosts, but their attention mechanisms can be unstable when subjected to perturbations during training and testing. The proposed FGAI has four key properties ensuring stability and sensitivity to interpretation and output distribution. A novel methodology is introduced for obtaining FGAI as an ad hoc modification to canonical Attention-based GNNs. Experimental results demonstrate the superior stability and interpretability of FGAI under various forms of perturbations and randomness, making it a more faithful and reliable explanation tool. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper solves a problem with attention mechanisms in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) called Faithful Graph Attention-based Interpretation (FGAI). GNNs are good at doing certain tasks, but sometimes the way they do it is hard to understand. The authors came up with FGAI to make GNNs more reliable and easier to interpret. They showed that their approach works well even when things get a bit messy during training or testing. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Attention
