arXiv AI

Reconciling Consistency-Based Diagnosis with Actual-Causality-Based Explanations

The paper establishes connections between Consistency-Based Diagnosis (CBD) and concepts of Actual Causality and Causal Responsibility from the perspective of Explainable AI (XAI). It highlights that CBD has received limited attention within the XAI community and suggests that linking these areas could positively influence both XAI and Explainable Data Management.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 23

xWhyL: Causal Interactive Learning

arXiv:2609.26037v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Explanations are central to causal reasoning, and cognitive science has long established that the human drive to explain is itself a mechanism for lear...

By Nicholas Tagliapietra, Florian Peter Busch, Moritz Willig, Matej Ze\v{c}evi\'c, Lavdim Halilaj, Juergen Luettin, Kristian Kersting
arXiv AI
4d ago

A Synthetic Ground-Truth Framework for the Evaluation of Explainable AI Methods

The paper introduces a synthetic ground‑truth framework for evaluating explainable AI (XAI) methods, addressing the lack of reliable evaluation procedures. By using controlled interventions to create datasets where the importance of input components is known, the framework generates ground‑truth explanations that align with the model’s actual decision process. The authors apply this approach to binary images, tabular data, and time series, and find that nine popular XAI methods exhibit significant limitations, underscoring the need for intervention‑based benchmarks.

By Miquel Mir\'o-Nicolau, Francesco Spinnato, Riccardo Guidotti
arXiv AI
Aug 10

Toward a Causal Data Management Ecosystem for Decision Making and Agentic AI

arXiv:2608. 07214v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern AI is no longer a single model but an ecosystem: classical ML predictors, deep and multimodal models, large language models, and agents, each trained and tuned over different data sources and each producing outputs at scale that become inputs to the others.

By Dazhuo Qiu, Yingli Zhou, Amedeo Pachera, Angela Bonifati, Andrea Mauri
arXiv AI
Sep 10

Explaining AI Agents Through Execution Traces

arXiv:2609.06063v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI Agents are increasingly deployed in real-world settings, where they interact with external tools and make sequential decisions with limited human ov...

By Vittoria Vineis, Fabiano Veglianti, Lorenzo Antonelli, Claudia Di Carlo, Matteo Silvestri, Gabriele Tolomei
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 14

Solution of the Hempel's statistical ambiguity problem and Causal AI

This paper addresses Carl Hempel's longstanding problem of statistical ambiguity in inductive-statistical inference, in which contradictory predictions are derived from statistical laws. To avoid such predictions, Carl Hempel proposed the Requirement of Maximal Specificity (RMS) for the statistical laws used in the inference.

arXiv AI
Jul 3

Causal Explanations for Image Classifiers

arXiv:2411. 08875v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Existing algorithms for explaining the output of image classifiers use different definitions of explanations and a variety of techniques to find them.

By Hana Chockler, David A. Kelly, Daniel Kroening, Youcheng Sun