arXiv Machine Learning By Paul Whitten, Francis Wolff, Chris Papachristou

Explainability Methods for Hardware Trojan Detection: A Systematic Comparison

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arXiv:2601. 18696v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Hardware trojans are malicious circuits which compromise the functionality and security of an integrated circuit (IC).

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arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 18

Evaluating Explanation Methods by the Predictors They Induce

The paper proposes a new evaluation test for explanation methods: if an explanation accurately captures how a model uses its features, one should be able to reconstruct the model’s predictions from it. The authors convert explanations into predictors by summing feature effects and assess how well these predictors reproduce the model on unseen data, without any fitting. They apply this test to partial dependence plots, accumulated local effects, SHAP, and LIME across multiple datasets and model families, showing that the best method depends on feature dependence and that some existing quality metrics can favor flawed explanations.

By Jacob Selb{\ae}k, Hugo L. Hammer