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Explaining the decisions of machine learning models is becoming a necessity in many areas where trust in ML models decision is key to their accreditation/adoption. The ability to explain models decisions also allows to provide diagnosis in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Pierre Blanchart

Symbolic regression is the process of identifying mathematical expressions that fit observed output from a black-box process. It is a discrete optimization problem generally believed to be NP-hard. Prior approaches to solving the problem…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-19 T. Nathan Mundhenk , Mikel Landajuela , Ruben Glatt , Claudio P. Santiago , Daniel M. Faissol , Brenden K. Petersen

In social science, formal and quantitative models, such as ones describing economic growth and collective action, are used to formulate mechanistic explanations, provide predictions, and uncover questions about observed phenomena. Here, we…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Julia Balla , Sihao Huang , Owen Dugan , Rumen Dangovski , Marin Soljacic

Nowadays new technologies, and especially artificial intelligence, are more and more established in our society. Big data analysis and machine learning, two sub-fields of artificial intelligence, are at the core of many recent breakthroughs…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-22 Antonio Sutera

Hyperparameter optimization in machine learning (ML) deals with the problem of empirically learning an optimal algorithm configuration from data, usually formulated as a black-box optimization problem. In this work, we propose a zero-shot…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-07 Pieter Gijsbers , Florian Pfisterer , Jan N. van Rijn , Bernd Bischl , Joaquin Vanschoren

Symbolic regression is a machine learning method with the goal to produce interpretable results. Unlike other machine learning methods such as, e.g. random forests or neural networks, which are opaque, symbolic regression aims to model and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Yousef A. Radwan , Gabriel Kronberger , Stephan Winkler

Explainable AI is a crucial component for edge services, as it ensures reliable decision making based on complex AI models. Surrogate models are a prominent approach of XAI where human-interpretable models, such as a linear regression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Foivos Charalampakos , Thomas Tsouparopoulos , Iordanis Koutsopoulos

Machine learning models are becoming increasingly popular in different types of settings. This is mainly caused by their ability to achieve a level of predictive performance that is hard to match by human experts in this new era of big…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Luis Torgo , Paulo Azevedo , Ines Areosa

Large Language Models (LLMs) are traditionally viewed as black-box algorithms, therefore reducing trustworthiness and obscuring potential approaches to increasing performance on downstream tasks. In this work, we apply an effective LLM…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Shun Wang , Tyler Loakman , Youbo Lei , Yi Liu , Bohao Yang , Yuting Zhao , Dong Yang , Chenghua Lin

Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems based solely on neural networks or symbolic computation present a representational complexity challenge. While minimal representations can produce behavioral outputs like locomotion or simple…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-19 Bradly Alicea , Jesse Parent

This paper presents a methodology that enables projection-based model reduction for black-box high-fidelity models such as commercial CFD codes. The methodology specifically addresses the situation where the high-fidelity model may be a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-18 S. Ashwin Renganathan , Yingjie Liu , Dimitri N. Mavris

An increasing number of machine learning models have been deployed in domains with high stakes such as finance and healthcare. Despite their superior performances, many models are black boxes in nature which are hard to explain. There are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Shivani Choudhary , Niladri Chatterjee , Subir Kumar Saha

With dramatic improvements in optimization software, the solution of large-scale problems that seemed intractable decades ago are now a routine task. This puts even more real-world applications into the reach of optimizers. At the same…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Marc Goerigk , Michael Hartisch

Real-world problems are often dependent on multiple data modalities, making multimodal fusion essential for leveraging diverse information sources. In high-stakes domains, such as in healthcare, understanding how each modality contributes…

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

There is a wide gap between symbolic reasoning and deep learning. In this research, we explore the possibility of using deep learning to improve symbolic reasoning. Briefly, in a reasoning system, a deep feedforward neural network is used…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Cheng-Hao Cai , Dengfeng Ke , Yanyan Xu , Kaile Su

Black-box AI (BBAI) systems such as foundational models are increasingly being used for sequential decision making. To ensure that such systems are safe to operate and deploy, it is imperative to develop efficient methods that can provide a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Daniel Bramblett , Rushang Karia , Adrian Ciotinga , Ruthvick Suresh , Pulkit Verma , YooJung Choi , Siddharth Srivastava

Experimental evidence indicates that simple models outperform complex deep networks on many unsupervised similarity tasks. We provide a simple yet rigorous explanation for this behaviour by introducing the concept of an optimal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Vitalii Zhelezniak , Dan Busbridge , April Shen , Samuel L. Smith , Nils Y. Hammerla

Being able to interpret, or explain, the predictions made by a machine learning model is of fundamental importance. This is especially true when there is interest in deploying data-driven models to make high-stakes decisions, e.g. in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-01 An-phi Nguyen , María Rodríguez Martínez

The goal in Symbolic Regression (SR) is to discover expressions that accurately map input to output data. Because often the intent is to understand these expressions, there is a trade-off between accuracy and the interpretability of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Joe Harrison , Peter A. N. Bosman , Tanja Alderliesten

With the need for optimisation based supervisory controllers for complex energy systems, comes the need for reduced order system models representing not only the non-linear characteristics of the components, but also certain unknown process…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Parantapa Sawant , Adrian Bürger , Minh Dang Doan , Clemens Felsmann , Jens Pfafferott