The Interpretability of Graph Neural Networks

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• Han Xuanyuan, Dept of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge
• Friday 25 November 2022, 15:00-16:00
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Graph neural networks (GNNs) have demonstrated great performance on graph-based data. However, like many machine learning models, GNNs lack transparency and are not interpretable. Due to a lack of trust, practitioners may be reluctant to deploy them in high-stake and safety-critical applications in the real world. This motivates us to develop methods for the explainability of GNNs. In this talk, I provide an overview of the current trends in the frontier of this research area, aiming to discuss the general challenges researchers are currently solving. I then present my recent work accepted to AAAI 2023 : an investigation into the behaviour of individual GNN neurons. We find that GNN neurons behave like concept detectors, and can be used to extract insights from the model which align with human intuition. We then use neuron-level concepts to construct global explanations, outperforming the previous state-of-the-art approach in terms of explanation quality.

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