arXiv AI
Sep 17
Probabilistic Linear Explanations
arXiv:2609. 19077v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Formal explainability provides mathematically grounded justifications for individual predictions.
Informative Perturbation Selection for Uncertainty-Aware Post-hoc Explanations
arXiv:2603. 14894v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Trust and ethical concerns due to the widespread deployment of opaque machine learning (ML) models motivating the need for reliable model explanations.
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arXiv AI
Jun 30
What LLMs explain is not what they believe: Evaluating explanation sufficiency under models' own input beliefs
arXiv:2606. 28615v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in high-stakes domains, where free-text explanations such as chain-of-thought and post-hoc rationales are used to justify model outputs.
arXiv Statistics ML
Aug 25
Interpretable AI with Local Distillation
Interpretable AI with Local Distillation proposes a method where a black‑box teacher model guides a regularized linear student model at each query point. The teacher defines locality by upweighting training observations with similar predicted outcomes and anchors the fit with its own prediction at the query point, treated as a pseudo‑observation. By adding Gaussian randomization and refitting, the approach identifies reliable features and stable subgroups, achieving near‑teacher accuracy while producing sparse, locally interpretable linear models.
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 4
Pushing the (Decision) Boundaries: Dynamically Calibrating Differentially Private Noise to Explainability in Federated Learning
The paper introduces XCal-FL, a federated learning algorithm that dynamically calibrates differential privacy noise using three signals—prediction logit variations, counterfactual margins, and saliency concentration—to improve both predictive accuracy and explanation fidelity. Experiments on medical imaging datasets demonstrate that XCal-FL outperforms static-noise and state‑of‑the‑art adaptive DP methods, achieving over 10% better accuracy and up to fivefold higher explanation fidelity while using privacy budgets more efficiently. The study highlights that explanation fidelity behaves non‑linearly with privacy loss, indicating that explainability is a separate dimension of the privacy trade‑off.
arXiv AI
Jun 12
The Query Channel: Information-Theoretic Limits of Masking-Based Explanations
arXiv:2604. 16689v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Masking-based post-hoc explanation methods, such as KernelSHAP and LIME, estimate local feature importance by querying a black-box model under randomized perturbations.
arXiv AI
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Reasoning with Sampling: Cutting at Decision Points
arXiv:2605.30327v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Frontier reasoning models are produced by post-training base language models with reinforcement learning. Recent work has challenged this by...
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 16
Evaluating Local Explainability Metrics for Machine Learning Models on Tabular Data
arXiv:2605. 27618v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: 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.
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 3
Pushing the (Decision) Boundaries: Dynamically Calibrating Differentially Private Noise to Explainability in Federated Learning
The paper introduces XCal-FL, a federated learning algorithm that dynamically calibrates differential privacy noise using three signals—prediction logit variations, counterfactual margins, and saliency concentration—to improve both predictive accuracy and explanation fidelity. Experiments on medical imaging datasets demonstrate that XCal-FL outperforms static-noise and state‑of‑the‑art adaptive DP methods, achieving over 10% better accuracy and up to five‑fold higher explanation fidelity while using privacy budgets more efficiently. The study reveals that explanation fidelity behaves non‑linearly with privacy loss, indicating that explainability is a separate dimension of the privacy trade‑off that cannot be inferred from utility alone.
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27
Towards A Unified Information Bottleneck Framework for Time Series Explanations
arXiv:2608. 25897v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Explaining deep learning models operating on time series data is crucial in various applications that require transparent and interpretable insights into model behavior.
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4
Information-Theoretic Foundations for Machine Learning
arXiv:2407. 12288v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The progress of machine learning over the past decade is undeniable.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 26
Learning from Equivalence Queries, Revisited
arXiv:2604. 04535v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modern machine learning systems, such as generative models and recommendation systems, often evolve through a cycle of deployment, user interaction, and periodic model updates.
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 26
Towards A Unified Information Bottleneck Framework for Time Series Explanations
Explaining deep learning models operating on time series data is crucial in various applications that require transparent and interpretable insights into model behavior. {Existing explanation methods...