Year: 2022
Type: preprint
Abstract: Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been extensively developed for graph representation learning in various application domains. However, similar to all other neural networks models, GNNs suffer from the black-box problem as people cannot understand the mechanism underlying them. To solve this problem, several GNN explainability methods have been proposed to explain the decisions made by GNNs. In this survey, we give an overview of the state-of-the-art GNN explainability methods and how they are evaluated. Furthermore, we propose a new evaluation metric and conduct thorough experiments to compare GNN explainability methods on real world datasets. We also suggest future directions for GNN explainability.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Institution: UNSW Sydney
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4221148418