Toward Explainable AI for Regression Models
Abstract
In addition to the impressive predictive power of machine learning (ML) models, more recently, explanation methods have emerged that enable an interpretation of complex non-linear learning models such as deep neural networks. Gaining a better understanding is especially important e.g. for safety-critical ML applications or medical diagnostics etc. While such Explainable AI (XAI) techniques have reached significant popularity for classifiers, so far little attention has been devoted to XAI for regression models (XAIR). In this review, we clarify the fundamental conceptual differences of XAI for regression and classification tasks, establish novel theoretical insights and analysis for XAIR, provide demonstrations of XAIR on genuine practical regression problems, and finally discuss the challenges remaining for the field.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2112.11407,
title = {Toward Explainable AI for Regression Models},
author = {Simon Letzgus and Patrick Wagner and Jonas Lederer and Wojciech Samek and Klaus-Robert Müller and Gregoire Montavon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.11407},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
17 pages, 10 figures, published; changes: 1. references to code and xai-regression.org added (p. 1/2, end of introduction), 2. adjustment of sign-error in restructuring section (p. 8, just above Fig. 4)