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Deep learning models have great potential in medical imaging, including orthodontics and skeletal maturity assessment. However, applying a model to data different from its training set can lead to unreliable predictions that may impact…

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Neural Additive Models (NAMs) have recently demonstrated promising predictive performance while maintaining interpretability. However, their capacity is limited to capturing only first-order feature interactions, which restricts their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Minkyu Kim , Hyun-Soo Choi , Jinho Kim

Generalized additive models (GAMs) are a widely used class of models of interest to statisticians as they provide a flexible way to design interpretable models of data beyond linear models. We here propose a scalable and well-calibrated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Vincent Adam , Nicolas Durrande , ST John

Machine learning (ML) interpretability techniques can reveal undesirable patterns in data that models exploit to make predictions--potentially causing harms once deployed. However, how to take action to address these patterns is not always…

A barrier to the wider adoption of neural networks is their lack of interpretability. While local explanation methods exist for one prediction, most global attributions still reduce neural network decisions to a single set of features. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Mark Ibrahim , Melissa Louie , Ceena Modarres , John Paisley

While interpretability is crucial for machine learning applications in safety-critical domains and for regulatory compliance, existing tabular foundation models like TabPFN lack transparency. Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) provide the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Andreas Mueller , Julien Siems , Harsha Nori , David Salinas , Arber Zela , Rich Caruana , Frank Hutter

Generalized additive models (GAMs) provide a way to blend parametric and non-parametric (function approximation) techniques together, making them flexible tools suitable for many modeling problems. For instance, GAMs can be used to…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-07 Antti Solonen , Stratos Staboulis

Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) are widely used explainable-by-design models in various applications. GAMs assume that the output can be represented as a sum of univariate functions, referred to as components. However, this assumption…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Vasilis Gkolemis , Anargiros Tzerefos , Theodore Dalamagas , Eirini Ntoutsi , Christos Diou

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown exceptional performances in a wide range of tasks and have become the go-to method for problems requiring high-level predictive power. There has been extensive research on how DNNs arrive at their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Mattias Luber , Anton Thielmann , Benjamin Säfken

As an emerging interpretable technique, Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) adopt neural networks to individually learn non-linear functions for each feature, which are then combined through a linear model for final predictions. Although…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Viet Duong , Qiong Wu , Zhengyi Zhou , Hongjue Zhao , Chenxiang Luo , Eric Zavesky , Huaxiu Yao , Huajie Shao

The trade-off between interpretability and accuracy remains a core challenge in machine learning. Standard Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) offer clear feature attributions but are often constrained by their strictly additive nature,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Guangzhi Xiong , Sanchit Sinha , Aidong Zhang

We review generalized additive models as a type of ``transparent'' model that has recently seen renewed interest in the deep learning community as neural additive models. We highlight multiple types of nonidentifiability in this model class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Xinyu Zhang , Julien Martinelli , ST John

This paper introduces the Actuarial Neural Additive Model, an inherently interpretable deep learning model for general insurance pricing that offers fully transparent and interpretable results while retaining the strong predictive power of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Patrick J. Laub , Tu Pho , Bernard Wong

Interpretability is one of the considerations when applying machine learning to high-stakes fields such as healthcare that involve matters of life safety. Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) enhance interpretability by visualizing shape…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Fumin Wang

Analyzing data from multiple neuroimaging studies has great potential in terms of increasing statistical power, enabling detection of effects of smaller magnitude than would be possible when analyzing each study separately and also allowing…

Standard autoregressive seq2seq models are easily trained by max-likelihood, but tend to show poor results under small-data conditions. We introduce a class of seq2seq models, GAMs (Global Autoregressive Models), which combine an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Tetiana Parshakova , Jean-Marc Andreoli , Marc Dymetman

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as the predominant approach for learning over graph-structured data. However, most GNNs operate as black-box models and require post-hoc explanations, which may not suffice in high-stakes scenarios…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Maya Bechler-Speicher , Amir Globerson , Ran Gilad-Bachrach

Recent large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable prediction performance for a growing array of tasks. However, their proliferation into high-stakes domains (e.g. medicine) and compute-limited settings has created a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Chandan Singh , Armin Askari , Rich Caruana , Jianfeng Gao

Predictive analytics aims to build machine learning models to predict behavior patterns and use predictions to guide decision-making. Predictive analytics is human involved, thus the machine learning model is preferred to be interpretable.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Yuanyuan Jiang , Rui Ding , Tianchi Qiao , Yunan Zhu , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang

Deep neural networks have revolutionized many fields, but their black-box nature also occasionally prevents their wider adoption in fields such as healthcare and finance, where interpretable and explainable models are required. The recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Wei Zhang , Brian Barr , John Paisley