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The Rashomon Effect describes the following phenomenon: for a given dataset there may exist many models with equally good performance but with different solution strategies. The Rashomon Effect has implications for Explainable Machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Sebastian Müller , Vanessa Toborek , Katharina Beckh , Matthias Jakobs , Christian Bauckhage , Pascal Welke

The Rashomon effect describes the observation that in machine learning (ML) multiple models often achieve similar predictive performance while explaining the underlying relationships in different ways. This observation holds even for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Julian Rosenberger , Philipp Schröppel , Sven Kruschel , Mathias Kraus , Patrick Zschech , Maximilian Förster

Post-hoc explanations are widely used to justify, contest, and review automated decisions in high-stakes domains such as lending, employment, and healthcare. Among these methods, SHAP is often treated as providing a reliable account of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Hyunseung Hwang , Seungeun Lee , Lucas Rosenblatt , Steven Euijong Whang , Julia Stoyanovich

Post hoc explainers such as SHAP and LIME are used widely in business research to interpret complex machine learning models. Although they were designed to explain model predictions, there has been an increasing trend in which the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Tong Wang , Ronilo Ragodos , Lu Feng , Yu , Hu

Post-hoc explainability methods aim to clarify predictions of black-box machine learning models. However, it is still largely unclear how well users comprehend the provided explanations and whether these increase the users ability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Anahid Jalali , Bernhard Haslhofer , Simone Kriglstein , Andreas Rauber

Post-hoc global/local feature attribution methods are progressively being employed to understand the decisions of complex machine learning models. Yet, because of limited amounts of data, it is possible to obtain a diversity of models with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Gabriel Laberge , Yann Pequignot , Alexandre Mathieu , Foutse Khomh , Mario Marchand

In the past years, many new explanation methods have been proposed to achieve interpretability of machine learning predictions. However, the utility of these methods in practical applications has not been researched extensively. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Hilde J. P. Weerts , Werner van Ipenburg , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Explainable AI (XAI) is essential for validating and trusting models in safety-critical applications like autonomous driving. However, the reliability of XAI is challenged by the Rashomon effect, where multiple, equally accurate models can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Helge Spieker , Jørn Eirik Betten , Arnaud Gotlieb , Nadjib Lazaar , Nassim Belmecheri

Creating models from past observations and ensuring their effectiveness on new data is the essence of machine learning. However, selecting models that generalize well remains a challenging task. Related to this topic, the Rashomon Effect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Gianlucca Zuin , Adriano Veloso

As neural networks increasingly make critical decisions in high-stakes settings, monitoring and explaining their behavior in an understandable and trustworthy manner is a necessity. One commonly used type of explainer is post hoc feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Avi Schwarzschild , Max Cembalest , Karthik Rao , Keegan Hines , John Dickerson

The existence of multiple, equally accurate models for a given predictive task leads to predictive multiplicity, where a ``Rashomon set'' of models achieve similar accuracy but diverges in their individual predictions. This inconsistency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Parian Haghighat , Hadis Anahideh , Cynthia Rudin

Different prediction models might perform equally well (Rashomon set) in the same task, but offer conflicting interpretations and conclusions about the data. The Rashomon effect in the context of Explainable AI (XAI) has been recognized as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Sichao Li , Amanda S. Barnard , Quanling Deng

When selecting a model from a set of equally performant models, how much unfairness can you really reduce? Is it important to be intentional about fairness when choosing among this set, or is arbitrarily choosing among the set of ''good''…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Gordon Dai , Pavan Ravishankar , Rachel Yuan , Daniel B. Neill , Emily Black

Conformal prediction is a model-agnostic approach to generating prediction sets that cover the true class with a high probability. Although its prediction set size is expected to capture aleatoric uncertainty, there is a lack of evidence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Misgina Tsighe Hagos , Claes Lundström

There have been several research works proposing new Explainable AI (XAI) methods designed to generate model explanations having specific properties, or desiderata, such as fidelity, robustness, or human-interpretability. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Sérgio Jesus , Catarina Belém , Vladimir Balayan , João Bento , Pedro Saleiro , Pedro Bizarro , João Gama

Prior work has identified a resilient phenomenon that threatens the performance of human-AI decision-making teams: overreliance, when people agree with an AI, even when it is incorrect. Surprisingly, overreliance does not reduce when the AI…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Helena Vasconcelos , Matthew Jörke , Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin , Tobias Gerstenberg , Michael Bernstein , Ranjay Krishna

An algorithm effects a causal representation of relations between features and labels in the human's perception. Such a representation might conflict with the human's prior belief. Explanations can direct the human's attention to the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Charles Wan , Rodrigo Belo , Leid Zejnilović , Susana Lavado

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) methods in text summarization are essential for understanding the model behavior and fostering trust in model-generated summaries. Despite the effectiveness of XAI methods, recent studies have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Seema Aswani , Sujala D. Shetty

Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) is concerned with producing explanations indicating the inner workings of models. For a Rashomon set of similarly performing models, explanations provide a way of disambiguating the behavior of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Kaivalya Rawal , Eoin Delaney , Zihao Fu , Sandra Wachter , Chris Russell

Explainable AI (XAI) aims to support appropriate human-AI reliance by increasing the interpretability of complex model decisions. Despite the proliferation of proposed methods, there is mixed evidence surrounding the effects of different…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Emma Casolin , Flora D. Salim , Ben Newell
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