arXiv:2505.07635cs.LGcs.DB2025-05中稿 · ICDE 2026被引 2

用多维度优化解释图神经网络预测结果,避免单一视角偏差。

Interpreting Graph Inference with Skyline Explanations

  • 将解释看作多个评价指标的帕累托最优解集,兼顾多种可解释性需求。
  • 提出洋葱剥皮算法,逐步筛选关键节点与边,高效生成解释子图。
  • 支持大规模图推理,适合需要全面理解模型决策的研究者使用。

图机器学习模型(如图神经网络)常用于各类网络分析任务,但其输出难以全面解释。现有方法通常依赖单一可解释性度量(如保真度),导致解释片面。本文提出天空线解释(skyline explanation)新范式,通过同时优化用户关注的多种可解释性度量来解释GNN输出。首先,将天空线解释定义为在多个度量上占优的解释子图集合,并将其建模为多目标优化问题,证明其计算复杂性。其次,设计基于洋葱剥皮策略的高效算法,优先处理关键节点并逐步剔除无意义边,增量构建解释。第三,提出多样化算法以丰富解释内容。第四,开发具有负载均衡策略的并行算法,实现对大规模图推理的高效扩展。在真实与合成图数据上的实验验证了方法的有效性与可扩展性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Inference queries have been routinely issued to graph machine learning models such as graph neural networks (GNNs) for various network analytical tasks. Nevertheless, GNN outputs are often hard to interpret comprehensively. Existing methods typically conform to individual pre-defined explainability measures (such as fidelity), which often leads to biased, ``one-side'' interpretations. This paper introduces skyline explanation, a new paradigm that interprets GNN outputs by simultaneously optimizing multiple explainability measures of users' interests. (1) We propose skyline explanations as a Pareto set of explanatory subgraphs that dominate others over multiple explanatory measures. We formulate skyline explanation as a multi-criteria optimization problem, and establish its hardness results. (2) We design efficient algorithms with an onion-peeling approach, which strategically prioritizes nodes and removes unpromising edges to incrementally assemble skyline explanations. (3) We also develop an algorithm to diversify the skyline explanations to enrich the comprehensive interpretation. (4) We introduce efficient parallel algorithms with load-balancing strategies to scale skyline explanation for large-scale GNN-based inference. Using real-world and synthetic graphs, we experimentally verify our algorithms' effectiveness and scalability.

图神经网络可解释性多目标优化

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