VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Linmao Chen
dblp:430/7436
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Trustworthy machine learning · 50% Generative modeling · 33% Graph learning · 17% |
Topics — the 6 heaviest of 6, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning › interpretability
counterfactual explanation |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Generating In-Distribution Counterfactual Explanation for Graph Neural Networks · AAAI 2026 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling
diffusion model |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Generating In-Distribution Counterfactual Explanation for Graph Neural Networks · AAAI 2026 |
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning › interpretability
explainable AI |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Generating In-Distribution Counterfactual Explanation for Graph Neural Networks · AAAI 2026 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling › diffusion model
graph diffusion model |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Generating In-Distribution Counterfactual Explanation for Graph Neural Networks · AAAI 2026 |
Machine learning › Graph learning
graph neural network |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Generating In-Distribution Counterfactual Explanation for Graph Neural Networks · AAAI 2026 |
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning
interpretability |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Generating In-Distribution Counterfactual Explanation for Graph Neural Networks · AAAI 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
variational inference · 1.0graph diffusion · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Generating In-Distribution Counterfactual Explanation for Graph Neural NetworksabstractGraph Neural Networks (GNNs) have received increasing attention due to their ability to handle graph-structured data, yet their explainability remains a significant challenge. An effective solution is to provide the GNN models with counterfactual explanations, which aim to answer “How should the input instance be perturbed to change the model's prediction?". However, existing works mainly focus on generating explanations that can effectively alter model predictions, while neglecting whether the explanations remain aligned with the original data distribution, leading to the distribution shift problem. To address this problem, we propose a novel method called ICExplainer for generating explanations within the original distribution. Specifically, we introduce graph diffusion-based generative model into the counterfactual reasoning, treating it as an optimization objective for graph distribution learning. Taking insights from variational inference, we use it to estimate the true distribution of the input graphs to retain essential structural and semantic information. The inferred distribution is then utilized as prior knowledge to guide the reverse process, ensuring that generated explanations are both counterfactual and distributionally coherent. Extensive experiments conducted on both synthetic and real-world datasets demonstrate the superior performance of ICExplainer over existing methods. Linmao Chen, Chaobo He, Junwei Cheng, Quanlong Guan |
AAAI | 1 |