With the increasing use of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in critical real-world applications, several post hoc explanation methods have been proposed to understand their predictions. However, there has been no work in generating explanations on the fly during model training and utilizing them to improve the expressive power of the underlying GNN models. In this work, we introduce a novel explanation-directed neural message passing framework for GNNs, EXPASS (EXplainable message PASSing), which aggregates only embeddings from nodes and edges identified as important by a GNN explanation method. EXPASS can be used with any existing GNN architecture and subgraph-optimizing explainer to learn accurate graph embeddings. We theoretically show that EXPASS alleviates the oversmoothing problem in GNNs by slowing the layer wise loss of Dirichlet energy and that the embedding difference between the vanilla message passing and EXPASS framework can be upper bounded by the difference of their respective model weights. Our empirical results show that graph embeddings learned using EXPASS improve the predictive performance and alleviate the oversmoothing problems of GNNs, opening up new frontiers in graph machine learning to develop explanation-based training frameworks.

由于事后解释越来越多地用于了解图神经网络（GNN）的行为，因此评估GNN解释的质量和可靠性至关重要。但是，评估GNN解释的质量是具有挑战性的，因为现有的图形数据集对给定任务没有或不可靠的基础真相解释。在这里，我们介绍了一个合成图数据生成器ShapeGgen，该生成可以生成各种基准数据集（例如，不同的图形大小，度分布，同粒细胞与异性图）以及伴随着地面真相解释。此外，生成各种合成数据集和相应的基础真相解释的灵活性使我们能够模仿各种现实世界应用程序生成的数据。我们将ShapeGgen和几个现实图形数据集包括在开源图形图库GraphXai中。除了带有基础真相说明的合成和现实图形数据集外，GraphXAI还提供数据加载程序，数据处理功能，可视化器，GNN模型实现和评估指标，以基准基准GNN解释性方法的性能。

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a powerful tool for machine learning on graphs. GNNs combine node feature information with the graph structure by recursively passing neural messages along edges of the input graph. However, incorporating both graph structure and feature information leads to complex models and explaining predictions made by GNNs remains unsolved. Here we propose GNNEXPLAINER, the first general, model-agnostic approach for providing interpretable explanations for predictions of any GNN-based model on any graph-based machine learning task. Given an instance, GNNEXPLAINER identifies a compact subgraph structure and a small subset of node features that have a crucial role in GNN's prediction. Further, GNNEXPLAINER can generate consistent and concise explanations for an entire class of instances. We formulate GNNEXPLAINER as an optimization task that maximizes the mutual information between a GNN's prediction and distribution of possible subgraph structures. Experiments on synthetic and real-world graphs show that our approach can identify important graph structures as well as node features, and outperforms alternative baseline approaches by up to 43.0% in explanation accuracy. GNNEXPLAINER provides a variety of benefits, from the ability to visualize semantically relevant structures to interpretability, to giving insights into errors of faulty GNNs.

解释机器学习决策的问题是经过深入研究和重要的。我们对一种涉及称为图形神经网络的图形数据的特定类型的机器学习模型感兴趣。众所周知，由于缺乏公认的基准，评估图形神经网络（GNN）的可解释性方法是具有挑战性的。鉴于GNN模型，存在几种可解释性方法来解释具有多种（有时相互矛盾的）方法论的GNN模型。在本文中，我们提出了一个基准，用于评估称为Bagel的GNN的解释性方法。在百吉饼中，我们首先提出了四种不同的GNN解释评估制度 - 1）忠诚，2）稀疏性，3）正确性。 4）合理性。我们在现有文献中调和多个评估指标，并涵盖了各种概念以进行整体评估。我们的图数据集范围从引文网络，文档图，到分子和蛋白质的图。我们对四个GNN模型和九个有关节点和图形分类任务的事后解释方法进行了广泛的实证研究。我们打开基准和参考实现，并在https://github.com/mandeep-rathee/bagel-benchmark上提供它们。

图表可以模拟实体之间的复杂交互，它在许多重要的应用程序中自然出现。这些应用程序通常可以投入到标准图形学习任务中，其中关键步骤是学习低维图表示。图形神经网络（GNN）目前是嵌入方法中最受欢迎的模型。然而，邻域聚合范例中的标准GNN患有区分\ EMPH {高阶}图形结构的有限辨别力，而不是\ EMPH {低位}结构。为了捕获高阶结构，研究人员求助于主题和开发的基于主题的GNN。然而，现有的基于主基的GNN仍然仍然遭受较少的辨别力的高阶结构。为了克服上述局限性，我们提出了一个新颖的框架，以更好地捕获高阶结构的新框架，铰接于我们所提出的主题冗余最小化操作员和注射主题组合的新颖框架。首先，MGNN生成一组节点表示W.R.T.每个主题。下一阶段是我们在图案中提出的冗余最小化，该主题在彼此相互比较并蒸馏出每个主题的特征。最后，MGNN通过组合来自不同图案的多个表示来执行节点表示的更新。特别地，为了增强鉴别的功率，MGNN利用重新注射功能来组合表示的函数w.r.t.不同的主题。我们进一步表明，我们的拟议体系结构增加了GNN的表现力，具有理论分析。我们展示了MGNN在节点分类和图形分类任务上的七个公共基准上表现出最先进的方法。

图神经网络（GNN）是一类流行的机器学习模型。受到学习解释（L2X）范式的启发，我们提出了L2XGNN，这是一个可解释的GNN的框架，该框架通过设计提供了忠实的解释。L2XGNN学习了一种选择解释性子图（主题）的机制，该机制仅在GNNS消息通话操作中使用。L2XGNN能够为每个输入图选择具有特定属性的子图，例如稀疏和连接。对主题施加这种限制通常会导致更容易解释和有效的解释。几个数据集的实验表明，L2XGNN使用整个输入图实现了与基线方法相同的分类精度，同时确保仅使用提供的解释来进行预测。此外，我们表明L2XGNN能够识别负责预测图形属性的主题。

我们研究了图神经网络（GNN）的解释性，作为阐明其工作机制的一步。尽管大多数当前方法都集中在解释图节点，边缘或功能上，但我们认为，作为GNNS的固有功能机制，消息流对执行解释性更为自然。为此，我们在这里提出了一种新颖的方法，即FlowX，以通过识别重要的消息流来解释GNN。为了量化流量的重要性，我们建议遵循合作游戏理论中沙普利价值观的哲学。为了解决计算所有联盟边际贡献的复杂性，我们提出了一个近似方案，以计算类似沙普利的值，作为进一步再分配训练的初步评估。然后，我们提出一种学习算法来训练流量评分并提高解释性。关于合成和现实世界数据集的实验研究表明，我们提出的FlowX导致GNN的解释性提高。

消息传递已作为设计图形神经网络（GNN）的有效工具的发展。但是，消息传递的大多数现有方法简单地简单或平均所有相邻的功能更新节点表示。它们受到两个问题的限制，即（i）缺乏可解释性来识别对GNN的预测重要的节点特征，以及（ii）特征过度混合，导致捕获长期依赖和无能为力的过度平滑问题在异质或低同质的下方处理图。在本文中，我们提出了一个节点级胶囊图神经网络（NCGNN），以通过改进的消息传递方案来解决这些问题。具体而言，NCGNN表示节点为节点级胶囊组，其中每个胶囊都提取其相应节点的独特特征。对于每个节点级胶囊，开发了一个新颖的动态路由过程，以适应适当的胶囊，以从设计的图形滤波器确定的子图中聚集。 NCGNN聚集仅有利的胶囊并限制无关的消息，以避免交互节点的过度混合特征。因此，它可以缓解过度平滑的问题，并通过同粒或异质的图表学习有效的节点表示。此外，我们提出的消息传递方案本质上是可解释的，并免于复杂的事后解释，因为图形过滤器和动态路由过程确定了节点特征的子集，这对于从提取的子分类中的模型预测最为重要。关于合成和现实图形的广泛实验表明，NCGNN可以很好地解决过度光滑的问题，并为半监视的节点分类产生更好的节点表示。它的表现优于同质和异质的艺术状态。

In this paper, we investigate the degree of explainability of graph neural networks (GNNs). Existing explainers work by finding global/local subgraphs to explain a prediction, but they are applied after a GNN has already been trained. Here, we propose a meta-learning framework for improving the level of explainability of a GNN directly at training time, by steering the optimization procedure towards what we call `interpretable minima'. Our framework (called MATE, MetA-Train to Explain) jointly trains a model to solve the original task, e.g., node classification, and to provide easily processable outputs for downstream algorithms that explain the model's decisions in a human-friendly way. In particular, we meta-train the model's parameters to quickly minimize the error of an instance-level GNNExplainer trained on-the-fly on randomly sampled nodes. The final internal representation relies upon a set of features that can be `better' understood by an explanation algorithm, e.g., another instance of GNNExplainer. Our model-agnostic approach can improve the explanations produced for different GNN architectures and use any instance-based explainer to drive this process. Experiments on synthetic and real-world datasets for node and graph classification show that we can produce models that are consistently easier to explain by different algorithms. Furthermore, this increase in explainability comes at no cost for the accuracy of the model.

Uncovering rationales behind predictions of graph neural networks (GNNs) has received increasing attention over recent years. Instance-level GNN explanation aims to discover critical input elements, like nodes or edges, that the target GNN relies upon for making predictions. Though various algorithms are proposed, most of them formalize this task by searching the minimal subgraph which can preserve original predictions. However, an inductive bias is deep-rooted in this framework: several subgraphs can result in the same or similar outputs as the original graphs. Consequently, they have the danger of providing spurious explanations and fail to provide consistent explanations. Applying them to explain weakly-performed GNNs would further amplify these issues. To address this problem, we theoretically examine the predictions of GNNs from the causality perspective. Two typical reasons of spurious explanations are identified: confounding effect of latent variables like distribution shift, and causal factors distinct from the original input. Observing that both confounding effects and diverse causal rationales are encoded in internal representations, we propose a simple yet effective countermeasure by aligning embeddings. Concretely, concerning potential shifts in the high-dimensional space, we design a distribution-aware alignment algorithm based on anchors. This new objective is easy to compute and can be incorporated into existing techniques with no or little effort. Theoretical analysis shows that it is in effect optimizing a more faithful explanation objective in design, which further justifies the proposed approach.

Many applications of machine learning require a model to make accurate predictions on test examples that are distributionally different from training ones, while task-specific labels are scarce during training. An effective approach to this challenge is to pre-train a model on related tasks where data is abundant, and then fine-tune it on a downstream task of interest. While pre-training has been effective in many language and vision domains, it remains an open question how to effectively use pre-training on graph datasets. In this paper, we develop a new strategy and self-supervised methods for pre-training Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). The key to the success of our strategy is to pre-train an expressive GNN at the level of individual nodes as well as entire graphs so that the GNN can learn useful local and global representations simultaneously. We systematically study pre-training on multiple graph classification datasets. We find that naïve strategies, which pre-train GNNs at the level of either entire graphs or individual nodes, give limited improvement and can even lead to negative transfer on many downstream tasks. In contrast, our strategy avoids negative transfer and improves generalization significantly across downstream tasks, leading up to 9.4% absolute improvements in ROC-AUC over non-pre-trained models and achieving state-of-the-art performance for molecular property prediction and protein function prediction.However, pre-training on graph datasets remains a hard challenge. Several key studies (

图表学习目的旨在将节点内容与图形结构集成以学习节点/图表示。然而，发现许多现有的图形学习方法在具有高异性级别的数据上不能很好地工作，这是不同类标签之间很大比例的边缘。解决这个问题的最新努力集中在改善消息传递机制上。但是，尚不清楚异质性是否确实会损害图神经网络（GNNS）的性能。关键是要展现一个节点与其直接邻居之间的关系，例如它们是异性还是同质性？从这个角度来看，我们在这里研究了杂质表示在披露连接节点之间的关系之前/之后的杂音表示的作用。特别是，我们提出了一个端到端框架，该框架既学习边缘的类型（即异性/同质性），并利用边缘类型的信息来提高图形神经网络的表现力。我们以两种不同的方式实施此框架。具体而言，为了避免通过异质边缘传递的消息，我们可以通过删除边缘分类器鉴定的异性边缘来优化图形结构。另外，可以利用有关异性邻居的存在的信息进行特征学习，因此，设计了一种混合消息传递方法来汇总同质性邻居，并根据边缘分类使异性邻居多样化。广泛的实验表明，在整个同质级别的多个数据集上，通过在多个数据集上提出的框架对GNN的绩效提高了显着提高。

深度学习方法正在实现许多人工智能任务上的不断增长。深层模型的一个主要局限性是它们不适合可解释性。可以通过开发事后技术来解释预测，从而产生解释性领域，从而规避这种限制。最近，关于图像和文本的深层模型的解释性取得了重大进展。在图数据的领域，图形神经网络（GNN）及其解释性正在迅速发展。但是，既没有对GNN解释性方法的统一处理，也没有标准的基准和测试床。在这项调查中，我们提供了当前GNN解释性方法的统一和分类观点。我们对这一主题的统一和分类治疗对现有方法的共同性和差异阐明了灯光，并为进一步的方法论发展奠定了基础。为了促进评估，我们生成了一组专门用于GNN解释性的基准图数据集。我们总结了当前的数据集和指标，以评估GNN的解释性。总的来说，这项工作提供了GNN解释性和评估标准化测试床的统一方法论。

Graph classification is an important area in both modern research and industry. Multiple applications, especially in chemistry and novel drug discovery, encourage rapid development of machine learning models in this area. To keep up with the pace of new research, proper experimental design, fair evaluation, and independent benchmarks are essential. Design of strong baselines is an indispensable element of such works. In this thesis, we explore multiple approaches to graph classification. We focus on Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), which emerged as a de facto standard deep learning technique for graph representation learning. Classical approaches, such as graph descriptors and molecular fingerprints, are also addressed. We design fair evaluation experimental protocol and choose proper datasets collection. This allows us to perform numerous experiments and rigorously analyze modern approaches. We arrive to many conclusions, which shed new light on performance and quality of novel algorithms. We investigate application of Jumping Knowledge GNN architecture to graph classification, which proves to be an efficient tool for improving base graph neural network architectures. Multiple improvements to baseline models are also proposed and experimentally verified, which constitutes an important contribution to the field of fair model comparison.

图形神经网络（GNNS）最流行的设计范例是1跳消息传递 - 反复反复从1跳邻居聚集特征。但是，1-HOP消息传递的表达能力受Weisfeiler-Lehman（1-WL）测试的界定。最近，研究人员通过同时从节点的K-Hop邻居汇总信息传递到K-HOP消息。但是，尚无分析K-Hop消息传递的表达能力的工作。在这项工作中，我们从理论上表征了K-Hop消息传递的表达力。具体而言，我们首先正式区分了两种k-hop消息传递的内核，它们在以前的作品中经常被滥用。然后，我们通过表明它比1-Hop消息传递更强大，从而表征了K-Hop消息传递的表现力。尽管具有较高的表达能力，但我们表明K-Hop消息传递仍然无法区分一些简单的常规图。为了进一步增强其表现力，我们引入了KP-GNN框架，该框架通过利用每个跳跃中的外围子图信息来改善K-HOP消息。我们证明，KP-GNN可以区分几乎所有常规图，包括一些距离常规图，这些图无法通过以前的距离编码方法来区分。实验结果验证了KP-GNN的表达能力和有效性。 KP-GNN在所有基准数据集中都取得了竞争成果。

在高措施应用中大量部署图神经网络（GNNS）对对噪声的强大解释产生了强烈的需求，这些解释与人类的直觉很好。大多数现有方法通过识别与预测有很强相关性的输入图的子图来生成解释。这些解释对噪声并不强大，因为独立优化单个输入的相关性很容易过分拟合噪声。此外，它们与人类直觉并不十分吻合，因为从输入图中删除已识别的子图并不一定会改变预测结果。在本文中，我们提出了一种新颖的方法，可以通过在类似的输入图上明确建模GNNS的共同决策逻辑来生成对GNN的强大反事实解释。我们的解释自然对噪声是强大的，因为它们是由控制许多类似输入图的GNN的共同决策边界产生的。该解释也与人类的直觉很好地吻合，因为从输入图中的解释中删除了一组边缘，从而显着改变了预测。许多公共数据集上的详尽实验证明了我们方法的出色性能。

Explaining machine learning models is an important and increasingly popular area of research interest. The Shapley value from game theory has been proposed as a prime approach to compute feature importance towards model predictions on images, text, tabular data, and recently graph neural networks (GNNs) on graphs. In this work, we revisit the appropriateness of the Shapley value for GNN explanation, where the task is to identify the most important subgraph and constituent nodes for GNN predictions. We claim that the Shapley value is a non-ideal choice for graph data because it is by definition not structure-aware. We propose a Graph Structure-aware eXplanation (GStarX) method to leverage the critical graph structure information to improve the explanation. Specifically, we define a scoring function based on a new structure-aware value from the cooperative game theory proposed by Hamiache and Navarro (HN). When used to score node importance, the HN value utilizes graph structures to attribute cooperation surplus between neighbor nodes, resembling message passing in GNNs, so that node importance scores reflect not only the node feature importance, but also the node structural roles. We demonstrate that GStarX produces qualitatively more intuitive explanations, and quantitatively improves explanation fidelity over strong baselines on chemical graph property prediction and text graph sentiment classification.

尽管近期图形神经网络（GNN）进展，但解释了GNN的预测仍然具有挑战性。现有的解释方法主要专注于后性后解释，其中采用另一种解释模型提供培训的GNN的解释。后HOC方法未能揭示GNN的原始推理过程的事实引发了建立GNN与内置解释性的需求。在这项工作中，我们提出了原型图形神经网络（Protgnn），其将原型学习与GNNS相结合，并提供了对GNN的解释的新视角。在Protgnn中，解释自然地从基于案例的推理过程衍生，并且实际在分类期间使用。通过将输入与潜伏空间中的一些学习原型的输入进行比较来获得ProtGnn的预测。此外，为了更好地解释性和更高的效率，结合了一种新颖的条件子图采样模块，以指示输入图的哪个部分与ProtGnn +中的每个原型最相似。最后，我们在各种数据集中评估我们的方法并进行具体的案例研究。广泛的结果表明，Protgnn和Protgnn +可以提供固有的解释性，同时实现与非可解释对方的准确性有关的准确性。

Recently, graph neural networks (GNNs) have revolutionized the field of graph representation learning through effectively learned node embeddings, and achieved state-of-the-art results in tasks such as node classification and link prediction. However, current GNN methods are inherently flat and do not learn hierarchical representations of graphs-a limitation that is especially problematic for the task of graph classification, where the goal is to predict the label associated with an entire graph. Here we propose DIFFPOOL, a differentiable graph pooling module that can generate hierarchical representations of graphs and can be combined with various graph neural network architectures in an end-to-end fashion. DIFFPOOL learns a differentiable soft cluster assignment for nodes at each layer of a deep GNN, mapping nodes to a set of clusters, which then form the coarsened input for the next GNN layer. Our experimental results show that combining existing GNN methods with DIFFPOOL yields an average improvement of 5-10% accuracy on graph classification benchmarks, compared to all existing pooling approaches, achieving a new state-of-the-art on four out of five benchmark data sets.

图形神经网络（GNN）已被证明可以实现竞争结果，以解决与图形相关的任务，例如节点和图形分类，链接预测和节点以及各种域中的图形群集。大多数GNN使用消息传递框架，因此称为MPNN。尽管有很有希望的结果，但据报道，MPNN会遭受过度平滑，过度阵型和不足的影响。文献中已经提出了图形重新布线和图形池作为解决这些局限性的解决方案。但是，大多数最先进的图形重新布线方法无法保留该图的全局拓扑，因此没有可区分（电感），并且需要调整超参数。在本文中，我们提出了Diffwire，这是一个在MPNN中进行图形重新布线的新型框架，它通过利用LOV \'ASZ绑定来原理，完全可区分且无参数。我们的方法通过提出两个新的，mpnns中的新的互补层来提供统一的图形重新布线：首先，ctlayer，一个学习通勤时间并将其用作边缘重新加权的相关函数；其次，Gaplayer是优化光谱差距的图层，具体取决于网络的性质和手头的任务。我们从经验上验证了我们提出的方法的价值，并使用基准数据集分别验证了这些层的每个层以进行图形分类。 Diffwire将通勤时间的可学习性汇集到相关的曲率定义，为发展更具表现力的MPNN的发展打开了大门。