Summary of Exact: Towards a Platform For Empirically Benchmarking Machine Learning Model Explanation Methods, by Benedict Clark et al.
EXACT: Towards a platform for empirically benchmarking Machine Learning model explanation methods
by Benedict Clark, Rick Wilming, Artur Dox, Paul Eschenbach, Sami Hached, Daniel Jin Wodke, Michias Taye Zewdie, Uladzislau Bruila, Marta Oliveira, Hjalmar Schulz, Luca Matteo Cornils, Danny Panknin, Ahcène Boubekki, Stefan Haufe
First submitted to arxiv on: 20 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a benchmarking platform for explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) methods, called the Explainable AI Comparison Toolkit (EXACT). The goal is to standardize the evaluation of post-hoc XAI techniques by providing a set of datasets and metrics. The datasets include ground truth explanations for class-conditional features, while the metrics assess the quality of the explanations produced by different XAI methods. The study highlights limitations of popular XAI approaches, which often fail to surpass random baselines, attributing significance to irrelevant features. Additionally, it shows variability in explanations derived from different model architectures that perform equally well. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about a special kind of artificial intelligence called explainable AI. It wants to make sure that when machines learn things, we can understand why they learned those things. To do this, the researchers created a tool called EXACT, which has some special datasets and ways to measure how good different methods are at explaining their results. They found out that some popular methods aren’t very good at doing this and sometimes give false reasons for what they’ve learned. This is important because it helps us understand how machines learn and how we can make them better. |
