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Current Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are frequently built around monolithic models that entangle perception, reasoning, and decision-making, a design that often conflicts with established software architecture principles. Large…

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AI systems increasingly support human decision-making. In many cases, despite the algorithm's superior performance, the final decision remains in human hands. For example, an AI may assist doctors in determining which diagnostic tests to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Gali Noti , Kate Donahue , Jon Kleinberg , Sigal Oren

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems have become increasingly popular in many areas. Nevertheless, AI technologies are still in their developing stages, and many issues need to be addressed. Among those, the reliability of AI systems needs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Yili Hong , Jiayi Lian , Li Xu , Jie Min , Yueyao Wang , Laura J. Freeman , Xinwei Deng

This position paper argues for metacognition as a general design principle for creating more accurate, secure, and efficient AI. The metacognitive solution involves systems monitoring their own states and judiciously allocating resources…

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Trust in clinical artificial intelligence (AI) cannot be reduced to model accuracy, fluency of generation, or overall positive user impression. In medicine, trust must be engineered as a measurable system property grounded in evidence,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Serhii Zabolotnii , Viktoriia Holinko , Olha Antonenko

Appropriate reliance is critical to achieving synergistic human-AI collaboration. For instance, when users over-rely on AI assistance, their human-AI team performance is bounded by the model's capability. This work studies how the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Shiye Cao , Anqi Liu , Chien-Ming Huang

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

In the field of Explainable AI, multiples evaluation metrics have been proposed in order to assess the quality of explanation methods w.r.t. a set of desired properties. In this work, we study the articulation between the stability,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Romain Xu-Darme , Jenny Benois-Pineau , Romain Giot , Georges Quénot , Zakaria Chihani , Marie-Christine Rousset , Alexey Zhukov

It is well recognised that ensuring fair AI systems is a complex sociotechnical challenge, which requires careful deliberation and continuous oversight across all stages of a system's lifecycle, from defining requirements to model…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Alpay Sabuncuoglu , Christopher Burr , Carsten Maple

Most recent work on interpretability of complex machine learning models has focused on estimating $\textit{a posteriori}$ explanations for previously trained models around specific predictions. $\textit{Self-explaining}$ models where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-05 David Alvarez-Melis , Tommi S. Jaakkola

In recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms have been proven to outperform traditional statistical methods in terms of predictivity, especially when a large amount of data was available. Nevertheless, the "black box" nature of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-14 Nicola Picchiotti , Marco Gori

Deploying successful software-reliant systems that address their mission goals and user needs within cost, resource, and expected quality constraints require design trade-offs. These trade-offs dictate how systems are structured and how…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Lena Pons , Ipek Ozkaya

Statistical latent class models are widely used in social and psychological researches, yet it is often difficult to establish the identifiability of the model parameters. In this paper we consider the identifiability issue of a family of…

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Decision-making in complex systems often relies on machine learning models, yet highly accurate models such as XGBoost and neural networks can obscure the reasoning behind their predictions. In operations research applications,…

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Whenever a binary classifier is used to provide decision support, it typically provides both a label prediction and a confidence value. Then, the decision maker is supposed to use the confidence value to calibrate how much to trust the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Nina L. Corvelo Benz , Manuel Gomez Rodriguez

The recent enthusiasm for artificial intelligence (AI) is due principally to advances in deep learning. Deep learning methods are remarkably accurate, but also opaque, which limits their potential use in safety-critical applications. To…

Accelerated material discovery increasingly relies on artificial intelligence and machine learning, collectively termed "AI/ML". A key challenge in using AI is ensuring that human scientists trust the models are valid and reliable.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-02 Benhour Amirian , Ashley S. Dale , Sergei Kalinin , Jason Hattrick-Simpers

This technical note considers the sampling of outcomes that provide the greatest amount of information about the structure of underlying world models. This generalisation furnishes a principled approach to structure learning under a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-25 Karl Friston , Lancelot Da Costa , Alexander Tschantz , Conor Heins , Christopher Buckley , Tim Verbelen , Thomas Parr

This paper investigates the prospect of developing human-interpretable, explainable artificial intelligence (AI) systems based on active inference and the free energy principle. We first provide a brief overview of active inference, and in…