Why Does It Look like this? Introducing a Preliminary Framework for Explainable Graph Drawing (XGD)

Keisi Çela, Stef van den Elzen, Jarke van Wijk, Alessio Arleo, Alessio Arleo

2025

Abstract

The discipline of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) enhances the transparency and trustworthiness of AI models by providing human-readable interpretable explanations for AI-driven decisions. The recent introduction of AI-accelerated techniques to the graph drawing community brings the challenge of comprehending the black-box ML and AI outputs when suggesting a layout for a specific graph - a problem we dub Explainable Graph Drawing (XGD). As a first step in addressing this challenge, this paper introduces a preliminary framework to match existing XAI methods to present and future AI approaches in graph drawing. This supports researchers in framing the used AI algorithm in XAI literature and helps in selecting the appropriate explanation method. We apply our approach on a chosen AI technique for graph drawing and present our findings. Finally, we discuss future perspectives and opportunities for explainable graph drawing.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Çela K., van den Elzen S., van Wijk J. and Arleo A. (2025). Why Does It Look like this? Introducing a Preliminary Framework for Explainable Graph Drawing (XGD). In Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP; ISBN 978-989-758-728-3, SciTePress, pages 851-858. DOI: 10.5220/0013111100003912

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ivapp25,
author={Keisi Çela and Stef van den Elzen and Jarke van Wijk and Alessio Arleo},
title={Why Does It Look like this? Introducing a Preliminary Framework for Explainable Graph Drawing (XGD)},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP},
year={2025},
pages={851-858},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013111100003912},
isbn={978-989-758-728-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP
TI - Why Does It Look like this? Introducing a Preliminary Framework for Explainable Graph Drawing (XGD)
SN - 978-989-758-728-3
AU - Çela K.
AU - van den Elzen S.
AU - van Wijk J.
AU - Arleo A.
PY - 2025
SP - 851
EP - 858
DO - 10.5220/0013111100003912
PB - SciTePress