English
Related papers

Related papers: A Guide to Feature Importance Methods for Scientif…

200 papers

The emergence of machine learning (ML) has led to a transformative shift in software techniques and guidelines for building software applications that support data analysis process activities such as data ingestion, modeling, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Cristina Tavares , Nathalia Nascimento , Paulo Alencar , Donald Cowan

Understanding how well a deep generative model captures a distribution of high-dimensional data remains an important open challenge. It is especially difficult for certain model classes, such as Generative Adversarial Networks and Diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Suman Ravuri , Mélanie Rey , Shakir Mohamed , Marc Deisenroth

Identification of input data points relevant for the classifier (i.e. serve as the support vector) has recently spurred the interest of researchers for both interpretability as well as dataset debugging. This paper presents an in-depth…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Dominique Mercier , Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui , Andreas Dengel , Sheraz Ahmed

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and, in particular, Machine Learning (ML) have emerged to be utilized in various applications due to their capability to learn how to solve complex problems. Over the last decade, rapid advances in ML have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Mohammad Hasan Ahmadilivani , Mahdi Taheri , Jaan Raik , Masoud Daneshtalab , Maksim Jenihhin

Tree-based ensembles such as random forests remain the go-to for tabular data over deep learning models due to their prediction performance and computational efficiency. These advantages have led to their widespread deployment in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Zhongyuan Liang , Zachary T. Rewolinski , Abhineet Agarwal , Tiffany M. Tang , Bin Yu

Interpretability is an important area of research for safe deployment of machine learning systems. One particular type of interpretability method attributes model decisions to input features. Despite active development, quantitative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Mengjiao Yang , Been Kim

Machine learning models usually assume that a set of feature values used to obtain an output is fixed in advance. However, in many real-world problems, a cost is associated with measuring these features. To address the issue of reducing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Katsumi Takahashi , Koh Takeuchi , Hisashi Kashima

This work proposes a novel general framework, in the context of eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), to construct explanations for the behaviour of Machine Learning (ML) models in terms of middle-level features. One can isolate two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Andrea Apicella , Salvatore Giugliano , Francesco Isgrò , Roberto Prevete

Machine learning (ML) techniques such as (deep) artificial neural networks (DNN) are solving very successfully a plethora of tasks and provide new predictive models for complex physical, chemical, biological and social systems. However, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Fabian Horst , Sebastian Lapuschkin , Wojciech Samek , Klaus-Robert Müller , Wolfgang I. Schöllhorn

The utilisation of large and diverse datasets for machine learning (ML) at scale is required to promote scientific insight into many meaningful problems. However, due to data governance regulations such as GDPR as well as ethical concerns,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Dmitrii Usynin , Alexander Ziller , Daniel Rueckert , Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach , Georgios Kaissis

Feature Learning aims to extract relevant information contained in data sets in an automated fashion. It is driving force behind the current deep learning trend, a set of methods that have had widespread empirical success. What is lacking…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-04-02 Brendan van Rooyen , Robert C. Williamson

In modern business processes, the amount of data collected has increased substantially in recent years. Because this data can potentially yield valuable insights, automated knowledge extraction based on process mining has been proposed,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Riza Velioglu , Jan Philip Göpfert , André Artelt , Barbara Hammer

Local model interpretation methods explain individual predictions by assigning an importance value to each input feature. This value is often determined by measuring the change in confidence when a feature is removed. However, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Eric Wallace , Shi Feng , Jordan Boyd-Graber

Grouping has been commonly used in deep metric learning for computing diverse features. However, current methods are prone to overfitting and lack interpretability. In this work, we propose an improved and interpretable grouping method to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Xinyi Xu , Zhengyang Wang , Cheng Deng , Hao Yuan , Shuiwang Ji

Feature attribution methods are popular in interpretable machine learning. These methods compute the attribution of each input feature to represent its importance, but there is no consensus on the definition of "attribution", leading to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Yilun Zhou , Serena Booth , Marco Tulio Ribeiro , Julie Shah

We study instancewise feature importance scoring as a method for model interpretation. Any such method yields, for each predicted instance, a vector of importance scores associated with the feature vector. Methods based on the Shapley score…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Jianbo Chen , Le Song , Martin J. Wainwright , Michael I. Jordan

Machine learning is an essential tool for optimizing industrial quality control processes. However, the complexity of machine learning models often limits their practical applicability due to a lack of interpretability. Additionally, many…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Georg Rottenwalter , Marcel Tilly , Victor Owolabi

In recent times, a considerable number of research studies have been carried out to address the issue of Missing Value Imputation (MVI). MVI aims to provide a primary solution for datasets that have one or more missing attribute values. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Abu Fuad Ahmad , Khaznah Alshammari , Istiaque Ahmed , MD Shohel Sayed

Accurate and early prediction of a disease allows to plan and improve a patient's quality of future life. During pandemic situations, the medical decision becomes a speed challenge in which physicians have to act fast to diagnose and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Pierluigi Costanzo , Kalia Orphanou

Traditional machine learning (ML) algorithms, such as multiple regression, require human analysts to make decisions on how to treat the data. These decisions can make the model building process subjective and difficult to replicate for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-31 William Franz Lamberti