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Faithful explanations are essential for machine learning models in high-stakes applications. Inherently interpretable models are well-suited for these applications because they naturally provide faithful explanations by revealing their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Chudi Zhong , Panyu Chen , Cynthia Rudin

In the context of human-in-the-loop Machine Learning applications, like Decision Support Systems, interpretability approaches should provide actionable insights without making the users wait. In this paper, we propose Accelerated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-24 David Dandolo , Chiara Masiero , Mattia Carletti , Davide Dalle Pezze , Gian Antonio Susto

The potential of multimodal generative artificial intelligence (mAI) to replicate human grounded language understanding, including the pragmatic, context-rich aspects of communication, remains to be clarified. Humans are known to use…

Recent studies on interpretability of attention distributions have led to notions of faithful and plausible explanations for a model's predictions. Attention distributions can be considered a faithful explanation if a higher attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Akash Kumar Mohankumar , Preksha Nema , Sharan Narasimhan , Mitesh M. Khapra , Balaji Vasan Srinivasan , Balaraman Ravindran

Despite the success achieved in neural abstractive summarization based on pre-trained language models, one unresolved issue is that the generated summaries are not always faithful to the input document. There are two possible causes of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Xiuying Chen , Mingzhe Li , Xin Gao , Xiangliang Zhang

In this work, we present the first general logic of attention. Attention is a powerful cognitive ability that allows agents to focus on potentially complex information, such as logically structured propositions, higher-order beliefs, or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Gaia Belardinelli , Thomas Bolander , Sebastian Watzl

Explanations for AI models in high-stakes domains like medicine often lack verifiability, which can hinder trust. To address this, we propose an interactive agent that produces explanations through an auditable sequence of actions. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yuhang Huang , Zekai Lin , Fan Zhong , Lei Liu

With deep neural models increasingly permeating our daily lives comes a need for transparent and comprehensible explanations of their decision-making. However, most explanation methods that have been developed so far are not intuitively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Jakob Ambsdorf

Attention mechanism is effective in both focusing the deep learning models on relevant features and interpreting them. However, attentions may be unreliable since the networks that generate them are often trained in a weakly-supervised…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-11 Jay Heo , Hae Beom Lee , Saehoon Kim , Juho Lee , Kwang Joon Kim , Eunho Yang , Sung Ju Hwang

For computer systems to effectively interact with humans using spoken language, they need to understand how the words being generated affect the users' moment-by-moment attention. Our study focuses on the incremental prediction of attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Sounak Mondal , Seoyoung Ahn , Zhibo Yang , Niranjan Balasubramanian , Dimitris Samaras , Gregory Zelinsky , Minh Hoai

Large language models have found success by scaling up capabilities to work in general settings. The same can unfortunately not be said for interpretability methods. The current trend in mechanistic interpretability is to provide precise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Jonathan Katzy , Razvan-Mihai Popescu , Erik Mekkes , Arie van Deursen , Maliheh Izadi

Neural abstractive summarization models are prone to generate content inconsistent with the source document, i.e. unfaithful. Existing automatic metrics do not capture such mistakes effectively. We tackle the problem of evaluating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Esin Durmus , He He , Mona Diab

A person's gaze offers valuable insights into their focus of attention, level of social engagement, and confidence. In this work, we investigate how contextual cues combined with visual scene and facial information can be effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Surbhi Madan , Shreya Ghosh , Ramanathan Subramanian , Abhinav Dhall , Tom Gedeon

In many settings it is important for one to be able to understand why a model made a particular prediction. In NLP this often entails extracting snippets of an input text `responsible for' corresponding model output; when such a snippet…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Sarthak Jain , Sarah Wiegreffe , Yuval Pinter , Byron C. Wallace

Understanding what makes a video memorable has important applications in advertising or education technology. Towards this goal, we investigate spatio-temporal attention mechanisms underlying video memorability. Different from previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Prajneya Kumar , Eshika Khandelwal , Makarand Tapaswi , Vishnu Sreekumar

Explainability is a key challenge and a major research theme in AI research for developing intelligent systems that are capable of working with humans more effectively. An obvious choice in developing explainable intelligent systems relies…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Erman Acar , Andrea De Domenico , Krishna Manoorkar , Mattia Panettiere

While recent years have witnessed the emergence of various explainable methods in machine learning, to what degree the explanations really represent the reasoning process behind the model prediction -- namely, the faithfulness of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Yingqiang Ge , Shuchang Liu , Zelong Li , Shuyuan Xu , Shijie Geng , Yunqi Li , Juntao Tan , Fei Sun , Yongfeng Zhang

Case-based reasoning networks are machine-learning models that make predictions based on similarity between the input and prototypical parts of training samples, called prototypes. Such models are able to explain each decision by pointing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Jules Soria , Zakaria Chihani , Julien Girard-Satabin , Alban Grastien , Romain Xu-Darme , Daniela Cancila

Machine learning has shown much promise in helping improve the quality of medical, legal, and financial decision-making. In these applications, machine learning models must satisfy two important criteria: (i) they must be causal, since the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Carolyn Kim , Osbert Bastani

The rapid growth of Internet services and mobile devices provides an excellent opportunity to satisfy the strong demand for the personalized item or product recommendation. However, with the tremendous increase of users and items,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Chen Ma , Peng Kang , Bin Wu , Qinglong Wang , Xue Liu