Advancing Transparency and Trust in AI Models

The recent developments in the field of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) have shown a significant shift towards enhancing the interpretability and trustworthiness of machine learning models, particularly in high-stakes applications such as healthcare, autonomous systems, and finance. Researchers are increasingly focusing on methods that not only improve prediction accuracy but also provide clear, understandable rationales for model decisions. This trend is evident in the integration of explainable components into various types of models, including deep learning, reinforcement learning, and graph neural networks. Innovations such as model-agnostic explanation approaches, multi-modal learning frameworks, and the use of natural language narratives are advancing the field by making complex models more transparent and accountable. Additionally, there is a growing emphasis on the evaluation and comparison of explainability methods to ensure they meet human-centric standards and provide reliable insights. These advancements are crucial for fostering trust in AI systems and facilitating their adoption in critical domains.

Noteworthy papers include one that introduces a novel approach to transform existing pre-trained models to become inherently interpretable, and another that presents a comprehensive framework for uncertainty disentanglement in multimodal foundation models, enhancing the robustness and reliability of autonomous systems.

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Beyond Accuracy: Ensuring Correct Predictions With Correct Rationales

Learning local discrete features in explainable-by-design convolutional neural networks

MBExplainer: Multilevel bandit-based explanations for downstream models with augmented graph embeddings

STAA: Spatio-Temporal Attention Attribution for Real-Time Interpreting Transformer-based Video Models

Rethinking Node Representation Interpretation through Relation Coherence

Explainable few-shot learning workflow for detecting invasive and exotic tree species

B-cosification: Transforming Deep Neural Networks to be Inherently Interpretable

On the Black-box Explainability of Object Detection Models for Safe and Trustworthy Industrial Applications

Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Dependent Features: Additive Effects of Collinearity

Mechanistic Interpretability of Reinforcement Learning Agents

Enhancing Osteoporosis Detection: An Explainable Multi-Modal Learning Framework with Feature Fusion and Variable Clustering

Axiomatic Explainer Globalness via Optimal Transport

A Mechanistic Explanatory Strategy for XAI

Medical X-Ray Image Enhancement Using Global Contrast-Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization

ParseCaps: An Interpretable Parsing Capsule Network for Medical Image Diagnosis

Decision Trees for Interpretable Clusters in Mixture Models and Deep Representations

Know Where You're Uncertain When Planning with Multimodal Foundation Models: A Formal Framework

SPES: Spectrogram Perturbation for Explainable Speech-to-Text Generation

Causal Discovery and Classification Using Lempel-Ziv Complexity

EXAGREE: Towards Explanation Agreement in Explainable Machine Learning

Do graph neural network states contain graph properties?

Machine learning identification of maternal inflammatory response and histologic choroamnionitis from placental membrane whole slide images

Identifying Economic Factors Affecting Unemployment Rates in the United States

XAI-FUNGI: Dataset resulting from the user study on comprehensibility of explainable AI algorithms

Benchmarking XAI Explanations with Human-Aligned Evaluations

GraphXAIN: Narratives to Explain Graph Neural Networks

Explanations that reveal all through the definition of encoding

A Bayesian explanation of machine learning models based on modes and functional ANOVA

The Effect of Funding on Student Achievement: Evidence from District of Columbia, Virginia, and Maryland

An Open API Architecture to Discover the Trustworthy Explanation of Cloud AI Services

Explaining Human Activity Recognition with SHAP: Validating Insights with Perturbation and Quantitative Measures

Human-in-the-Loop Feature Selection Using Interpretable Kolmogorov-Arnold Network-based Double Deep Q-Network

Beyond The Rainbow: High Performance Deep Reinforcement Learning On A Desktop PC

Local vs distributed representations: What is the right basis for interpretability?

Aligning Characteristic Descriptors with Images for Human-Expert-like Explainability

Alphanetv4: Alpha Mining Model

Interpreting the Learned Model in MuZero Planning

Cross- and Intra-image Prototypical Learning for Multi-label Disease Diagnosis and Interpretation

Enhancing Trust in Clinically Significant Prostate Cancer Prediction with Multiple Magnetic Resonance Imaging Modalities

From CNN to ConvRNN: Adapting Visualization Techniques for Time-Series Anomaly Detection