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The trade-off between interpretability and accuracy remains a core challenge in machine learning. Standard Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) offer clear feature attributions but are often constrained by their strictly additive nature,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Guangzhi Xiong , Sanchit Sinha , Aidong Zhang

Interpretability is a pressing issue for decision systems. Many post hoc methods have been proposed to explain the predictions of a single machine learning model. However, business processes and decision systems are rarely centered around a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Gianluigi Lopardo , Damien Garreau , Frederic Precioso , Greger Ottosson

Determining whether a molecule can be synthesized is crucial in chemistry and drug discovery, as it guides experimental prioritization and molecule ranking in de novo design tasks. Existing scoring approaches to assess synthetic feasibility…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Rebecca M. Neeser , Bruno Correia , Philippe Schwaller

This paper addresses a significant gap in explainable AI: the necessity of interpreting epistemic uncertainty in model explanations. Although current methods mainly focus on explaining predictions, with some including uncertainty, they fail…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Helena Löfström , Tuwe Löfström , Johan Hallberg Szabadvary

Despite the growing body of work on explainable machine learning in time series classification (TSC), it remains unclear how to evaluate different explainability methods. Resorting to qualitative assessment and user studies to evaluate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Jacqueline Höllig , Steffen Thoma , Florian Grimm

A central goal of eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) is to assign relative importance to the features of a Machine Learning (ML) model given some prediction. The importance of this task of explainability by feature attribution is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Olivier Letoffe , Xuanxiang Huang , Nicholas Asher , Joao Marques-Silva

Most existing interpretable methods explain a black-box model in a post-hoc manner, which uses simpler models or data analysis techniques to interpret the predictions after the model is learned. However, they (a) may derive contradictory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Mengzhuo Guo , Qingpeng Zhang , Xiuwu Liao , Daniel Dajun Zeng

Deep learning has achieved remarkable success in processing and managing unstructured data. However, its "black box" nature imposes significant limitations, particularly in sensitive application domains. While existing interpretable machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Wen-Dong Jiang , Chih-Yung Chang , Show-Jane Yen , Diptendu Sinha Roy

Predictive analytics aims to build machine learning models to predict behavior patterns and use predictions to guide decision-making. Predictive analytics is human involved, thus the machine learning model is preferred to be interpretable.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Yuanyuan Jiang , Rui Ding , Tianchi Qiao , Yunan Zhu , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang

Performing effective preference-based data retrieval requires detailed and preferentially meaningful structurized information about the current user as well as the items under consideration. A common problem is that representations of items…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-01-13 Joachim Selke , Wolf-Tilo Balke

Approaching new data can be quite deterrent; you do not know how your categories of interest are realized in it, commonly, there is no labeled data at hand, and the performance of domain adaptation methods is unsatisfactory. Aiming to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Eyal Shnarch , Leshem Choshen , Guy Moshkowich , Noam Slonim , Ranit Aharonov

Interpretability allows the domain-expert to directly evaluate the model's relevance and reliability, a practice that offers assurance and builds trust. In the healthcare setting, interpretable models should implicate relevant biological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Thomas P. Quinn , Dang Nguyen , Santu Rana , Sunil Gupta , Svetha Venkatesh

Social Networking Sites (SNS) are one of the most important ways of communication. In particular, microblogging sites are being used as analysis avenues due to their peculiarities (promptness, short texts...). There are countless researches…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Manuel Francisco , Juan Luis Castro

The increasing complexity of AI systems has made understanding their behavior critical. Numerous interpretability methods have been developed to attribute model behavior to three key aspects: input features, training data, and internal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Shichang Zhang , Tessa Han , Usha Bhalla , Himabindu Lakkaraju

Interpretability has become an essential topic for artificial intelligence in some high-risk domains such as healthcare, bank and security. For commonly-used tabular data, traditional methods trained end-to-end machine learning models with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Haixiao Chi , Dawei Wang , Gaojie Cui , Feng Mao , Beishui Liao

Expert finding is an information retrieval task that is concerned with the search for the most knowledgeable people with respect to a specific topic, and the search is based on documents that describe people's activities. The task involves…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-01-22 Catarina Moreira , Bruno Martins , Pável Calado

The challenge of creating interpretable models has been taken up by two main research communities: ML researchers primarily focused on lower-level explainability methods that suit the needs of engineers, and HCI researchers who have more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Juan D. Pinto , Luc Paquette

Interpreting the learned features of vision models has posed a longstanding challenge in the field of machine learning. To address this issue, we propose a novel method that leverages the capabilities of language models to interpret the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Saeid Asgari Taghanaki , Aliasghar Khani , Ali Saheb Pasand , Amir Khasahmadi , Aditya Sanghi , Karl D. D. Willis , Ali Mahdavi-Amiri

We introduce Matched Machine Learning, a framework that combines the flexibility of machine learning black boxes with the interpretability of matching, a longstanding tool in observational causal inference. Interpretability is paramount in…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-04-05 Marco Morucci , Cynthia Rudin , Alexander Volfovsky

Interpretable machine learning has emerged as central in leveraging artificial intelligence within high-stakes domains such as healthcare, where understanding the rationale behind model predictions is as critical as achieving high…

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