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Recent research has developed a number of eXplainable AI (XAI) techniques, such as gradient-based approaches, input perturbation-base methods, and black-box explanation methods. While these XAI techniques can extract meaningful insights…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Xu Zheng , Farhad Shirani , Zhuomin Chen , Chaohao Lin , Wei Cheng , Wenbo Guo , Dongsheng Luo

When neural networks are employed for high-stakes decision-making, it is desirable that they provide explanations for their prediction in order for us to understand the features that have contributed to the decision. At the same time, it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Penny Chong , Ngai-Man Cheung , Yuval Elovici , Alexander Binder

Explaining the predictions made by complex machine learning models helps users to understand and accept the predicted outputs with confidence. One promising way is to use similarity-based explanation that provides similar instances as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Kazuaki Hanawa , Sho Yokoi , Satoshi Hara , Kentaro Inui

This research presents a method that utilizes explainability techniques to amplify the performance of machine learning (ML) models in forecasting the quality of milling processes, as demonstrated in this paper through a manufacturing use…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Dennis Gross , Helge Spieker , Arnaud Gotlieb , Ricardo Knoblauch

Deep neural networks have demonstrated remarkable performance across various domains, yet their decision-making processes remain opaque. Although many explanation methods are dedicated to bringing the obscurity of DNNs to light, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Kanglong Fan , Yunqiao Yang , Chen Ma

This paper introduces an explanation framework designed to enhance the quality of rules in knowledge-based reasoning systems based on dataset-driven insights. The traditional method for rule induction from data typically requires…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Oshani Seneviratne , Brendan Capuzzo , William Van Woensel

This thesis explores the generation of local explanations for already deployed machine learning models, aiming to identify optimal conditions for producing meaningful explanations considering both data and user requirements. The primary…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-19 julien Delaunay

Learning algorithms that learn linear models often have high representation bias on real-world problems. In this paper, we show that this representation bias can be greatly reduced by discretization. Discretization is a common procedure in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-01-26 Nayyar A. Zaidi , Yang Du , Geoffrey I. Webb

Deep reinforcement learning has been able to solve various tasks successfully, however, due to the construction of policy gradient and training dynamics, tuning deep reinforcement learning models remains challenging. As one of the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Hanyong Wang , Menglong Yang

Our research demonstrates the significant benefits of using fine-tuning with explanations to enhance the performance of language models. Unlike prompting, which maintains the model's parameters, fine-tuning allows the model to learn and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Mohamad Ballout , Ulf Krumnack , Gunther Heidemann , Kai-Uwe Kuehnberger

Recommender systems are central to digital platforms, yet they face a fundamental trade-off between accuracy and explainability. Black-box models achieve strong performance but lack interpretability needed for trust and adoption. Existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yuyan Wang , Pan Li , Minmin Chen

Large Language Models (LLMs) are so powerful that they sometimes learn correlations between labels and features that are irrelevant to the task, leading to poor generalization on out-of-distribution data. We propose explanation-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Josh Magnus Ludan , Yixuan Meng , Tai Nguyen , Saurabh Shah , Qing Lyu , Marianna Apidianaki , Chris Callison-Burch

The overarching goal of Explainable AI is to develop systems that not only exhibit intelligent behaviours, but also are able to explain their rationale and reveal insights. In explainable machine learning, methods that produce a high level…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Xiuyi Fan , Siyuan Liu , Thomas C. Henderson

Information retrieval models have witnessed a paradigm shift from unsupervised statistical approaches to feature-based supervised approaches to completely data-driven ones that make use of the pre-training of large language models. While…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Saran Pandian , Debasis Ganguly , Sean MacAvaney

As various post hoc explanation methods are increasingly being leveraged to explain complex models in high-stakes settings, it becomes critical to develop a deeper understanding of whether and when the explanations output by these methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Satyapriya Krishna , Tessa Han , Alex Gu , Steven Wu , Shahin Jabbari , Himabindu Lakkaraju

Vulnerability detectors based on deep learning (DL) models have proven their effectiveness in recent years. However, the shroud of opacity surrounding the decision-making process of these detectors makes it difficult for security analysts…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Baijun Cheng , Shengming Zhao , Kailong Wang , Meizhen Wang , Guangdong Bai , Ruitao Feng , Yao Guo , Lei Ma , Haoyu Wang

Deploying reliable deep learning techniques in interdisciplinary applications needs learned models to output accurate and (even more importantly) explainable predictions. Existing approaches typically explicate network outputs in a post-hoc…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Chenyu Xue , Fan Wang , Yuanzhuo Zhu , Hui Li , Deyu Meng , Dinggang Shen , Chunfeng Lian

With the rapid advancement of neural language models, the deployment of over-parameterized models has surged, increasing the need for interpretable explanations comprehensible to human inspectors. Existing post-hoc interpretability methods,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Zijian Zhang , Vinay Setty , Yumeng Wang , Avishek Anand

Feature attribution has gained prominence as a tool for explaining model decisions, yet evaluating explanation quality remains challenging due to the absence of ground-truth explanations. To circumvent this, explanation-guided input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Yi Cai , Thibaud Ardoin , Mayank Gulati , Gerhard Wunder

This study evaluates Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) and its variants for aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human preferences, testing three configurations: (1) with Supervised Fine Tuning (SFT), (2) without SFT, and (3)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Amir Saeidi , Shivanshu Verma , Md Nayem Uddin , Chitta Baral