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Text-based explainable recommendation aims to generate natural-language explanations that justify item recommendations, to improve user trust and system transparency. Although recent advances leverage LLMs to produce fluent outputs, a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Ben Kabongo , Vincent Guigue

We evaluated whether model explanations could efficiently detect bias in image classification by highlighting discriminating features, thereby removing the reliance on sensitive attributes for fairness calculations. To this end, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Schrasing Tong , Lalana Kagal

Predictive modeling applications increasingly use data representing people's behavior, opinions, and interactions. Fine-grained behavior data often has different structure from traditional data, being very high-dimensional and sparse.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-07-28 Julie Moeyersoms , Brian d'Alessandro , Foster Provost , David Martens

An efficient and flexible engine for computing fixed points is critical for many practical applications. In this paper, we firstly present a goal-directed fixed point computation strategy in the logic programming paradigm. The strategy…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Hai-Feng Guo , Gopal Gupta

Well-founded fixed points have been used in several areas of knowledge representation and reasoning and to give semantics to logic programs involving negation. They are an important ingredient of approximation fixed point theory. We study…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-12-02 Arnaud Carayol , Zoltan Esik

Large language models (LLMs) excel at handling human queries, but they can occasionally generate flawed or unexpected responses. Understanding their internal states is crucial for understanding their successes, diagnosing their failures,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Xuansheng Wu , Jiayi Yuan , Wenlin Yao , Xiaoming Zhai , Ninghao Liu

Explainability is a topic of growing importance in NLP. In this work, we provide a unified perspective of explainability as a communication problem between an explainer and a layperson about a classifier's decision. We use this framework to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Marcos V. Treviso , André F. T. Martins

While deep neural networks have achieved remarkable performance, they tend to lack transparency in prediction. The pursuit of greater interpretability in neural networks often results in a degradation of their original performance. Some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Hefeng Wu , Hao Jiang , Keze Wang , Ziyi Tang , Xianghuan He , Liang Lin

The main purpose of this work is to extend the properties of multivalued transformations to the integral type transformations and to obtain the existence of fixed points under F-contraction. In addition, the results of this study were…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2020-02-04 Derya Sekman , Vatan Karakaya

This paper presents a Fuzzy Cognitive Map model to quantify implicit bias in structured datasets where features can be numeric or discrete. In our proposal, problem features are mapped to neural concepts that are initially activated by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Gonzalo Nápoles , Isel Grau , Leonardo Concepción , Lisa Koutsoviti Koumeri , João Paulo Papa

The literature on concurrency theory offers a wealth of examples of characteristic-formula constructions for various behavioural relations over finite labelled transition systems and Kripke structures that are defined in terms of fixed…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-11-11 Luca Aceto , Anna Ingolfsdottir , Joshua Sack

Machine learning is used more and more often for sensitive applications, sometimes replacing humans in critical decision-making processes. As such, interpretability of these algorithms is a pressing need. One popular algorithm to provide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Damien Garreau , Ulrike von Luxburg

We present a new theoretical framework that unifies category-theoretic fixed-point constructions, transfinite recursion, and game-based semantics to model how interpretations of language can stabilize through unlimited self-reference. By…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Faruk Alpay , Hamdi Al Alakkad

The Right to Explanation is an important regulatory principle that allows individuals to request actionable explanations for algorithmic decisions. However, several technical challenges arise when providing such actionable explanations in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Anna P. Meyer , Dan Ley , Suraj Srinivas , Himabindu Lakkaraju

Robust explanations are increasingly required for user trust in enterprise NLP, yet pre-deployment validation is difficult in the common case of black-box deployment (API-only access) where representation-based explainers are infeasible and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Guilin Zhang , Kai Zhao , Jeffrey Friedman , Xu Chu , Amine Anoun , Jerry Ting

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in natural language tasks, yet understanding their reasoning processes remains a significant challenge. We address this by introducing XplainLLM, a dataset accompanying an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zichen Chen , Jianda Chen , Ambuj Singh , Misha Sra

We apply methods of the fixed point theory to a Lambda policy iteration with a randomization algorithm for weak contractions mappings. This type of mappings covers a broader range than the strong contractions typically considered in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Abdelkader Belhenniche , Roman Chertovskih

Despite the wide use of explainability techniques to attempt to understand the behavior of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the generated explanations may not always be reliable. An explanation can appear plausible to humans but fail to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Tomás Pereira , João Vitorino , Eva Maia , Isabel Praça

Machine learning methods are being increasingly applied in sensitive societal contexts, where decisions impact human lives. Hence it has become necessary to build capabilities for providing easily-interpretable explanations of models'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Alfredo Carrillo , Luis F. Cantú , Luis Tejerina , Alejandro Noriega

Reliable pattern recognition systems should exhibit consistent behavior across similar inputs, and their explanations should remain stable. However, most Explainable AI evaluations remain instance centric and do not explicitly quantify…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Abu Noman Md Sakib , Zhensen Wang , Merjulah Roby , Zijie Zhang