arXiv Machine Learning

Backward Compatibility in Tree-Based Explanations and Enhanced CART Algorithm

arXiv:2608. 08674v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the operation of machine learning models, model update is a fundamental process that requires careful consideration of its impact on downstream decision-making.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 7

ProToMEx: Rapid, Interpretable Explanations via Structured Representations

ProToMEx is a new explainability framework that uses Probabilistic Topic Models to learn latent topics representing high‑level reasons behind a classifier’s decisions, moving beyond simple feature attribution. It provides both global and local explanations, revealing multiple co‑existing reasons for individual predictions. Empirical results show that ProToMEx achieves comparable fidelity to SHAP and LIME while being 30–40× faster on standard tabular and synthetic datasets.

By Athina Georgara, Adarsh Valoor, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn
arXiv AI
Jun 16

Unifying Post-hoc Explanations of Knowledge Graph Completions

arXiv:2507. 22951v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Knowledge Graphs organize information as entity-relation-entity triples, enabling machine learning models to predict plausible missing triples in a task known as Knowledge Graph Completion (KGC).

By Alessandro Lonardi, Samy Badreddine, Tarek R. Besold, Pablo Sanchez Martin
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 16

Learned Look-Ahead Splitting Rule for CART

The paper introduces a look‑ahead splitting rule for Classification and Regression Trees (CART) that evaluates candidate splits by the error reduction achieved after growing a conventional CART subtree beneath each split. To keep the method computationally feasible, a smart look‑ahead algorithm is proposed that learns downstream split values from node‑level features. Experiments on simulated data and two real datasets show that both full and smart look‑ahead methods outperform the standard greedy splitting strategy, especially in hierarchical or interaction‑driven scenarios.

By Andrew Gao, Tianlin Liu, Ruichen Han, Lu Tian