The paper introduces contrastive explanations for Quantitative Bipolar Argumentation Frameworks (QBAFs), a formalism used to represent and reason with information, including augmenting AI classification tasks with explainability. Unlike traditional explanations that focus on a single argument, contrastive explanations highlight differences between two topic arguments. The authors propose general contrastive attribution functions (CAFs), present CAFs based on removal, gradients, and Shapley-values, analyze their properties, and demonstrate their applicability in healthcare and bias identification scenarios.
arXiv:2605. 20098v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Claim verification is an important problem in high-stakes settings, including health and finance.
By Gabriel Freedman, Adam Dejl, Adam Gould, Mansi, Lihu Chen, Junqi Jiang, Francesca Toni
arXiv:2606. 16786v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Algorithmic explanations are intended to help stakeholders understand opaque algorithmic decisions, but in practice, they often fall short.
By Eric G\"unther, Bal\'azs Szabados, Kristof Meding, Gunnar K\"onig, Sebastian Bordt, Ulrike von Luxburg
The paper introduces a comparative explainability framework for auditing DeBERTa‑v3 in zero‑shot medical abstract classification. It evaluates five explanation methods—SHAP, LIME, occlusion, Input × Gradient, and Attention × Gradient—using a natural language inference engine on a balanced corpus of 1,000 abstracts per diagnostic category. The study finds that explanatory stability aligns with predictive certainty, identifies three systemic failure mechanisms, and recommends combining multiple explanation methods and quantitative agreement metrics for transformer‑based medical text classifiers.
By Javier Diaz Esteban-Herreros, David Mu\~noz-Valero, Raquel Mart\'inez-Espa\~na, Jose M. Juarez, Juan Moreno-Garcia
The paper introduces a hypothesis‑testing framework that embeds feature importance methods (FIMs) within a Weight of Evidence (WoE) analysis. By quantifying how strongly observed evidence supports a given hypothesis—whether from domain knowledge, ground truth, or the FIM itself—the approach evaluates FIM alignment and variability. The authors provide theoretical links between WoE and attribution variance and demonstrate the method on LIME and SHAP explanations across varied reference hypotheses.
By Eddie Conti, Claudio Daka, \'Alvaro Parafita, Antonio L. Alfeo, Axel Brando, Mario G. C. A. Cimino
arXiv:2606. 06646v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Formalizing complex reasoning from natural text is one of the central challenges in computational linguistics.
By Jakub B\k{a}ba, Jaros{\l}aw Chudziak