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Human Evaluation of Interpretability: The Case of AI-Generated Music Knowledge

Human-Computer Interaction 2020-04-16 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Interpretability of machine learning models has gained more and more attention among researchers in the artificial intelligence (AI) and human-computer interaction (HCI) communities. Most existing work focuses on decision making, whereas we consider knowledge discovery. In particular, we focus on evaluating AI-discovered knowledge/rules in the arts and humanities. From a specific scenario, we present an experimental procedure to collect and assess human-generated verbal interpretations of AI-generated music theory/rules rendered as sophisticated symbolic/numeric objects. Our goal is to reveal both the possibilities and the challenges in such a process of decoding expressive messages from AI sources. We treat this as a first step towards 1) better design of AI representations that are human interpretable and 2) a general methodology to evaluate interpretability of AI-discovered knowledge representations.

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@article{arxiv.2004.06894,
  title  = {Human Evaluation of Interpretability: The Case of AI-Generated Music Knowledge},
  author = {Haizi Yu and Heinrich Taube and James A. Evans and Lav R. Varshney},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.06894},
  year   = {2020}
}