From Abductive Explanations to Global Logical Rules for Node Classification in SGCs

📅 2026-08-17
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为解决图神经网络预测解释性问题,提出一种基于最小反绎解释的逻辑框架,用于从简单图卷积网络中提取全局逻辑规则。
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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable performance in node classification tasks, motivating growing interest in methods capable of explaining their predictions. Recent logic-based approaches, such as LogicXGNN, derive global logical rules for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) from collections of explanatory subgraphs. While informative, these subgraphs may contain redundant structural information that is specific to individual nodes, potentially limiting the generality of the extracted rules. In this work, we propose a logic-based framework for node classification in Simple Graph Convolution (SGC) networks that uses minimal abductive explanations as an intermediate representation for rule extraction. For each node, we compute a minimal set of node-feature pairs sufficient to preserve the predicted class. These explanations are then used to train decision trees from which global logical rules are extracted. Experiments on benchmark datasets show that the proposed framework produces compact global rules while maintaining high fidelity to the original SGC model.
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Graph Neural Networks
Node Classification
Global Logical Rules
Explanatory Subgraphs
Abductive Explanations
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minimal abductive explanations
global logical rules
node classification
Simple Graph Convolution (SGC) networks
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