arXiv:2606.03495cs.LG2026-06

提出轻量级层次语义解释框架,提升异构图神经网络可解释性。

HiSE: A Lightweight Hierarchical Semantic Explainer for Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks

论文配图:HiSE: A Lightweight Hierarchical Semantic Explainer for Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks
图 1 · 摘自论文原文
  • 分层建模语义结构,用LASSO学习每类语义下的稀疏特征表示。
  • 通过KL散度自适应融合多语义贡献,生成统一解释,精度更高。
  • 计算开销低,适合大规模真实异构图,兼顾效率与可解释性。

异构图神经网络(HGNNs)在建模复杂关系数据方面表现卓越,但在高风险应用中的可解释性仍是关键挑战。现有解释方法存在两大局限:一方面,生成的解释无法反映HGNN内在的语义层次结构,导致与模型内部决策机制不符;另一方面,特征解释常依赖复杂的搜索或扰动机制,带来过高计算开销和低效问题。为此,我们提出HiSE——一种面向特征的轻量级可解释模型。通过分层语义建模实现语义感知的特征解释:在语义层面,基于最小绝对收缩和选择算子(LASSO)的局部代理模型用于学习各语义视图下的稀疏特征表示;在跨语义层面,利用KL散度自适应刻画不同语义视图的贡献,生成统一解释。大量实验表明,HiSE在保真度、鲁棒性和跨语义解释能力上均优于现有方法,且其轻量级架构计算开销极低,可高效应用于大规模复杂的真实异构图。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Heterogeneous graph neural networks (HGNNs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in modeling complex relational data, however their interpretability in high-stakes applications remains a critical challenge. Existing explanation methods suffer from two major limitations: on the one hand, the generated explanations fail to reflect the inherent semantic hierarchy of HGNNs, resulting in a lack of fidelity to the model's internal decision-making mechanism; on the other hand, feature explanations often rely on complex search or perturbation mechanisms, leading to excessive computational complexity and poor efficiency. To address these issues, we propose HiSE, a lightweight feature-oriented interpretable model for HGNNs. HiSE achieves semantically aware feature explanations through hierarchical semantic modeling: at the semantic level, local surrogate models based on the Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO) are employed to learn sparse feature representations under each semantic view; at the cross-semantic level, the contributions of different semantic views are adaptively characterized via KL divergence to produce a unified explanation. Extensive experiments demonstrate that HiSE outperforms existing methods in terms of fidelity, robustness, and cross-semantic explanation capability, while its lightweight framework incurs low computational overhead, enabling efficient application to large-scale, complex real-world heterogeneous graphs.

可解释性异构图轻量级语义建模

Thank you to arXiv for use of its open access interoperability. PaperDance 不是 arXiv 官方产品;中文卡片由大模型生成,请以原文为准。