Summary of Unveiling Global Interactive Patterns Across Graphs: Towards Interpretable Graph Neural Networks, by Yuwen Wang et al.
Unveiling Global Interactive Patterns across Graphs: Towards Interpretable Graph Neural Networks
by Yuwen Wang, Shunyu Liu, Tongya Zheng, Kaixuan Chen, Mingli Song
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Jul 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 This paper proposes a novel framework for interpreting decisions made by Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in graph classification tasks. Existing methods focus on node-wise representations, but GNNs require global interactions and long-range dependencies to handle complex graph-level tasks. The proposed Global Interactive Pattern (GIP) learning scheme tackles this complexity by clustering nodes into coarsened instances and matching them with interpretable graph prototypes. This allows for a transparent reasoning process that yields superior interpretability and competitive performance on both synthetic and real-world benchmarks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Graph Neural Networks are good at classifying graphs, but they’re not very good at telling us why they made those decisions. Existing methods only look at individual nodes, but GNNs need to understand the whole graph to make accurate predictions. This paper introduces a new way of interpreting GNN decisions called Global Interactive Pattern learning. It works by grouping similar nodes together and matching them with simple examples that show how the decision was made. This makes it easier for humans to understand why the GNN chose a particular class. The method performs well on many different types of graphs. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Classification * Clustering * Gnn
