Towards Faithful Graph Explanations with Synergistic Edge Effects via Granular Balls· 基于颗粒球的图解释方法

Instance-level explanations aim to reveal the rationale behind a model's decisions for a specific graph. Previous methods explain graph neural networks (GNNs) by selecting important edges to induce subgraphs, where edge importance is assessed by perturbing each edge and observing changes in the model predictions. However, they often neglect the synergistic effects among edges, which are crucial for accurately characterizing edge importance. To address this issue, we propose SeeExplainer, a parameter-free explainer to interpret GNNs. Specifically, we first introduce a granular-ball graph refinement mechanism that decomposes a graph into several disjoint granular-balls with no fixed size, and utilize them as nodes to construct a structural graph. This process can better capture the synergist