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This paper addresses the actual practice of justifying definitions in mathematics. First, I introduce the main account of this issue, namely Lakatos's proof-generated definitions. Based on a case study of definitions of randomness in…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2013-10-08 Charlotte Werndl

Subtrait (latent-trait components) assessment presents a promising path toward enhancing transparency of automated writing scores. We prototype explainability and subtrait scoring with generative language models and show modest correlation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Alejandro Andrade-Lotero , Lee Becker , Joshua Southerland , Scott Hellman

Concept-based interpretability methods aim to explain deep neural network model predictions using a predefined set of semantic concepts. These methods evaluate a trained model on a new, "probe" dataset and correlate model predictions with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Vikram V. Ramaswamy , Sunnie S. Y. Kim , Ruth Fong , Olga Russakovsky

Explanations on relational data are hard to verify since the explanation structures are more complex (e.g. graphs). To verify interpretable explanations (e.g. explanations of predictions made in images, text, etc.), typically human subjects…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Abisha Thapa Magar , Anup Shakya , Somdeb Sarkhel , Deepak Venugopal

To address the issues of stability and fidelity in interpretable learning, a novel interpretable methodology, ensemble interpretation, is presented in this paper which integrates multi-perspective explanation of various interpretation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Chao Min , Guoyong Liao , Guoquan Wen , Yingjun Li , Xing Guo

From medical diagnosis to autonomous vehicles, critical applications rely on the integration of multiple heterogeneous data modalities. Multimodal Variational Autoencoders offer versatile and scalable methods for generating unobserved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Agathe Senellart , Stéphanie Allassonnière

Given the importance of integrating of explainability into machine learning, at present, there are a lack of pedagogical resources exploring this. Specifically, we have found a need for resources in explaining how one can teach the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Andreas Bueff , Ioannis Papantonis , Auste Simkute , Vaishak Belle

Smooth sensitivity is one of the most commonly used techniques for designing practical differentially private mechanisms. In this approach, one computes the smooth sensitivity of a given query $q$ on the given input $D$ and releases $q(D)$…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Richard Hladík , Jakub Tětek

Clear and effective explanations are essential for human understanding and knowledge dissemination. The scope of scientific research aiming to understand the essence of explanations has recently expanded from the social sciences to machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Giacomo Magnifico , Eduard Barbu

A growing body of research runs human subject evaluations to study whether providing users with explanations of machine learning models can help them with practical real-world use cases. However, running user studies is challenging and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Valerie Chen , Nari Johnson , Nicholay Topin , Gregory Plumb , Ameet Talwalkar

We propose LLM-PeerReview, an unsupervised LLM Ensemble method that selects the most ideal response from multiple LLM-generated candidates for each query, harnessing the collective wisdom of multiple models with diverse strengths.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zhijun Chen , Zeyu Ji , Qianren Mao , Hao Wu , Jinhuan Song , Junhang Cheng , Bangjie Qin , Zhuoran Li , Jingzheng Li , Kai Sun , Zizhe Wang , Yikun Ban , Zhu Sun , Xiangyang Ji , Hailong Sun

The increasing complexity of software systems and the influence of software-supported decisions in our society have sparked the need for software that is safe, reliable, and fair. Explainability has been identified as a means to achieve…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Timo Speith

Current machine learning models are evaluated through behavioral snapshots, with benchmark accuracies, win rates and outcome-based metrics. Model explanations and evaluations, however, are fundamentally intertwined: understanding why a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Isabelle Lee , Emmy Liu , Cathy Jiao , Brihi Joshi , Dani Yogatama , Fazl Barez , Michael Saxon

Human-annotated labels and explanations are critical for training explainable NLP models. However, unlike human-annotated labels whose quality is easier to calibrate (e.g., with a majority vote), human-crafted free-form explanations can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Bingsheng Yao , Prithviraj Sen , Lucian Popa , James Hendler , Dakuo Wang

Progress on many Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, such as text classification, is driven by objective, reproducible and scalable evaluation via publicly available benchmarks. However, these are not always representative of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Viktor Schlegel , Erick Mendez-Guzman , Riza Batista-Navarro

We regard explanations as a blending of the input sample and the model's output and offer a few definitions that capture various desired properties of the function that generates these explanations. We study the links between these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Lior Wolf , Tomer Galanti , Tamir Hazan

In recent years, the use of sophisticated statistical models that influence decisions in domains of high societal relevance is on the rise. Although these models can often bring substantial improvements in the accuracy and efficiency of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Alfredo Carrillo , Luis F. Cantú , Alejandro Noriega

Instruction-tuned LLMs are able to provide \textit{an} explanation about their output to users by generating self-explanations, without requiring the application of complex interpretability techniques. In this paper, we analyse whether this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Stephanie Brandl , Oliver Eberle

Integrating free-text explanations to in-context learning of large language models (LLM) is shown to elicit strong reasoning capabilities along with reasonable explanations. In this paper, we consider the problem of leveraging the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Shiyang Li , Jianshu Chen , Yelong Shen , Zhiyu Chen , Xinlu Zhang , Zekun Li , Hong Wang , Jing Qian , Baolin Peng , Yi Mao , Wenhu Chen , Xifeng Yan

People learn whenever and wherever possible, and whatever they like or encounter--Mathematics, Drama, Art, Languages, Physics, Philosophy, and so on. With the bursting of knowledge, evaluation of one's understanding of conceptual knowledge…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Gangli Liu