Summary of F-fidelity: a Robust Framework For Faithfulness Evaluation Of Explainable Ai, by Xu Zheng et al.
F-Fidelity: A Robust Framework for Faithfulness Evaluation of Explainable AI
by Xu Zheng, Farhad Shirani, Zhuomin Chen, Chaohao Lin, Wei Cheng, Wenbo Guo, Dongsheng Luo
First submitted to arxiv on: 3 Oct 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 proposed paper addresses the evaluation problem for eXplainable AI (XAI) techniques, specifically highlighting the Out-of-Distribution (OOD) issue in perturbation-based methods. The authors introduce Fine-tuned Fidelity (F-Fidelity), a robust evaluation framework that utilizes an explanation-agnostic fine-tuning strategy and random masking operation to mitigate information leakage and ensure OOD input generation. This framework is designed for XAI model evaluation, using state-of-the-art explainers and their degraded versions in controlled experiments on multiple data modalities, including images, time series, and natural language. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a new way to evaluate eXplainable AI (XAI) techniques, which are used to understand how artificial intelligence models make predictions. Right now, it’s hard to know if these XAI methods are working correctly because they can be fooled by fake data. The authors introduce a method called Fine-tuned Fidelity that helps solve this problem. It works by fine-tuning the AI model and masking some of its input features. This makes it harder for fake data to trick the model. The authors tested their method on different types of data, including images, sound waves, and text, and showed that it can accurately evaluate XAI methods. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Fine tuning » Time series
