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Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Mafalda Malafaia , Thalea Schlender , Tanja Alderliesten , Peter A. N. Bosman

As machine learning algorithms getting adopted in an ever-increasing number of applications, interpretation has emerged as a crucial desideratum. In this paper, we propose a mathematical definition for the human-interpretable model. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Weishen Pan , Changshui Zhang

Audio-visual video parsing is the task of categorizing a video at the segment level with weak labels, and predicting them as audible or visible events. Recent methods for this task leverage the attention mechanism to capture the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Yaru Chen , Ruohao Guo , Xubo Liu , Peipei Wu , Guangyao Li , Zhenbo Li , Wenwu Wang

In science and medicine, model interpretations may be reported as discoveries of natural phenomena or used to guide patient treatments. In such high-stakes tasks, false discoveries may lead investigators astray. These applications would…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-18 Collin Burns , Jesse Thomason , Wesley Tansey

We study the interactive effects (IE) model as an extension of the conventional additive effects (AE) model. For the AE model, the fixed effects estimator can be obtained by applying least squares to a regression that adds a linear…

Econometrics · Economics 2024-10-17 Robert F. Phillips , Benjamin D. Williams

We propose to use boosted regression trees as a way to compute human-interpretable solutions to reinforcement learning problems. Boosting combines several regression trees to improve their accuracy without significantly reducing their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Alexander Brown , Marek Petrik

Machine learning models have had discernible achievements in a myriad of applications. However, most of these models are black-boxes, and it is obscure how the decisions are made by them. This makes the models unreliable and untrustworthy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Raha Moraffah , Mansooreh Karami , Ruocheng Guo , Adrienne Raglin , Huan Liu

This paper provides empirical concerns about post-hoc explanations of black-box ML models, one of the major trends in AI explainability (XAI), by showing its lack of interpretability and societal consequences. Using a representative…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Jean-Marie John-Mathews

We introduce a new model-agnostic explanation technique which explains the prediction of any classifier called CLE. CLE gives an faithful and interpretable explanation to the prediction, by approximating the model locally using an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Zijian Zhang , Fan Yang , Haofan Wang , Xia Hu

Information Pursuit (IP) is an explainable prediction algorithm that greedily selects a sequence of interpretable queries about the data in order of information gain, updating its posterior at each step based on observed query-answer pairs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Stefan Kolek , Aditya Chattopadhyay , Kwan Ho Ryan Chan , Hector Andrade-Loarca , Gitta Kutyniok , Réne Vidal

Deep learning has achieved remarkable success across many domains, but it has also created a growing demand for interpretability in model predictions. Although many explainable machine learning methods have been proposed, post-hoc…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Shijian Xu , Marcello Massimo Negri , Volker Roth

Tree ensemble models like random forests and gradient boosting machines are widely used in machine learning due to their excellent predictive performance. However, a high-performance ensemble consisting of a large number of decision trees…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-28 Zebin Yang , Agus Sudjianto , Xiaoming Li , Aijun Zhang

Interpretable machine learning is rapidly becoming a crucial tool for scientific discovery. Among existing approaches, variational autoencoders (VAEs) have shown promise in extracting the hidden physical features of some input data, with no…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is currently based largely on black-box machine learning models which lack interpretability. The field of eXplainable AI (XAI) strives to address this major concern, being critical in high-stakes areas such as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Sean Tull , Robin Lorenz , Stephen Clark , Ilyas Khan , Bob Coecke

The Partial Integral Equation (PIE) framework was developed to computationally analyze linear Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) where the PDE is first converted to a PIE and then the analysis problem is solved by solving operator-valued…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-04 Sachin Shivakumar , Matthew Peet

Monitoring and maintaining machine learning models are among the most critical challenges in translating recent advances in the field into real-world applications. However, current monitoring methods lack the capability of provide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Thomas Decker , Alexander Koebler , Michael Lebacher , Ingo Thon , Volker Tresp , Florian Buettner

The use of wearables in medicine and wellness, enabled by AI-based models, offers tremendous potential for real-time monitoring and interpretable event detection. Explainable AI (XAI) is required to assess what models have learned and build…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-16 Maurice Kuschel , Solveig Vieluf , Claus Reinsberger , Tobias Loddenkemper , Tanuj Hasija

Methods for interpreting machine learning black-box models increase the outcomes' transparency and in turn generates insight into the reliability and fairness of the algorithms. However, the interpretations themselves could contain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Yujia Zhang , Kuangyan Song , Yiming Sun , Sarah Tan , Madeleine Udell

Deep learning models trained on extensive Electronic Health Records (EHR) data have achieved high accuracy in diagnosis prediction, offering the potential to assist clinicians in decision-making and treatment planning. However, these models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Xiaoxue Han , Pengfei Hu , Jun-En Ding , Chang Lu , Feng Liu , Yue Ning

Recent deep learning methods for fMRI-based diagnosis have achieved promising accuracy by modeling functional connectivity networks. However, standard approaches often struggle with noisy interactions, and conventional post-hoc attribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Kunyu Zhang , Yanwu Yang , Jing Zhang , Xiangjie Shi , Shujian Yu