activity
20192026
most citedHigher-Order Explanations of Graph Neural Networks via Relevant Walks

268 citations · 323 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

15 papers

cs.LG2026

Revisiting Explainable AI through Model-Independent Concept Dictionaries

Thomas Schnake, Doreen Schöppenthau, Alexander Meyer +3

Modern applications of AI rely on increasingly complex models. Explainable AI (XAI) has emerged as a set of techniques aimed at improving model transparency. However, existing XAI…

cs.LG2026

Explaining Hyperbolic Neural Networks via Geometry-Aware Relevance Propagation

Ping Xiong, Shanglin Li, Yi Ding +2

Hyperbolic neural networks introduce geometric operations that require explicit treatment in relevance propagation. Equivalent geometric realizations can produce different feature…

cs.LG2026

Explaining Temporal Graph Neural Networks via Feature-induced Information Flow

Ping Xiong, Thomas Schnake, Klaus-Robert Müller +1

Event-based Temporal Graph Neural Networks (ETGNNs) have demonstrated strong performance across a wide range of applications, including social network analysis, epidemic tracing, r…

cs.CV2026

Symb-xMIL: Symbolic Explanations for Multiple Instance Learning in Digital Pathology

Yanqing Luo, Julius Hense, Niklas Prenißl +4

Explanations of multiple instance learning (MIL) models are widely used for validation and discovery in digital histopathology. Existing methods primarily rely on heatmaps that hig…

cs.LG2026

Normalized Relevance Measure as a Unifying Framework to Explain Neural Network Latent Structures

Ping Xiong, Thomas Schnake, Grégoire Montavon +2

To understand how a neural network (NN) functions and makes predictions, it has become increasingly clear that analyzing only the input domain is insufficient -- one must also exam…

cs.LG2026

Relevant Walk Search for Explaining Graph Neural Networks

Ping Xiong, Thomas Schnake, Michael Gastegger +3

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become important machine learning tools for graph analysis, and its explainability is crucial for safety, fairness, and robustness. Layer-wise rel…

cs.LG2026

Efficient Higher-order Subgraph Attribution via Message Passing

Ping Xiong, Thomas Schnake, Grégoire Montavon +2

Explaining graph neural networks (GNNs) has become more and more important recently. Higher-order interpretation schemes, such as GNN-LRP (layer-wise relevance propagation for GNN)…

cs.CV2026

Beyond Attention Heatmaps: How to Get Better Explanations for Multiple Instance Learning Models in Histopathology

Mina Jamshidi Idaji, Julius Hense, Tom Neuhäuser +12

Multiple instance learning (MIL) has enabled substantial progress in computational histopathology, where a large amount of patches from gigapixel whole slide images are aggregated…

cs.LG2025

Uncovering the Structure of Explanation Quality with Spectral Analysis

Johannes Maeß, Grégoire Montavon, Shinichi Nakajima +2

As machine learning models are increasingly considered for high-stakes domains, effective explanation methods are crucial to ensure that their prediction strategies are transparent…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 16 cited

Analyzing Atomic Interactions in Molecules as Learned by Neural Networks

Malte Esders, Thomas Schnake, Jonas Lederer +4

While machine learning (ML) models have been able to achieve unprecedented accuracies across various prediction tasks in quantum chemistry, it is now apparent that accuracy on a te…

cs.AI2024★ 10 cited

Towards Symbolic XAI -- Explanation Through Human Understandable Logical Relationships Between Features

Thomas Schnake, Farnoush Rezaei Jafari, Jonas Lederer +5

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) plays a crucial role in fostering transparency and trust in AI systems, where traditional XAI approaches typically offer one level of abst…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

xMIL: Insightful Explanations for Multiple Instance Learning in Histopathology

Julius Hense, Mina Jamshidi Idaji, Oliver Eberle +7

Multiple instance learning (MIL) is an effective and widely used approach for weakly supervised machine learning. In histopathology, MIL models have achieved remarkable success in…

cs.LG2022★ 26 cited

XAI for Transformers: Better Explanations through Conservative Propagation

Ameen Ali, Thomas Schnake, Oliver Eberle +3

Transformers have become an important workhorse of machine learning, with numerous applications. This necessitates the development of reliable methods for increasing their transpar…

cs.LG2020★ 268 cited

Higher-Order Explanations of Graph Neural Networks via Relevant Walks

Thomas Schnake, Oliver Eberle, Jonas Lederer +4

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a popular approach for predicting graph structured data. As GNNs tightly entangle the input graph into the neural network structure, common explain…

stat.OT2019

Synthesis of High-Resolution Load Profiles with Minimal Data

Thomas Schnake, David Bauer

For the estimation of a new energy supply system it is an important to have high-resolution energy load profile. Such a profile is in general either not present or very costly to o…