CONFIDERAI: a novel CONFormal Interpretable-by-Design score function for Explainable and Reliable Artificial Intelligence

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Main Authors: Narteni, Sara, Carlevaro, Alberto, Dabbene, Fabrizio, Muselli, Marco, Mongelli, Maurizio
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author Narteni, Sara
Carlevaro, Alberto
Dabbene, Fabrizio
Muselli, Marco
Mongelli, Maurizio
author_facet Narteni, Sara
Carlevaro, Alberto
Dabbene, Fabrizio
Muselli, Marco
Mongelli, Maurizio
contents Everyday life is increasingly influenced by artificial intelligence, and there is no question that machine learning algorithms must be designed to be reliable and trustworthy for everyone. Specifically, computer scientists consider an artificial intelligence system safe and trustworthy if it fulfills five pillars: explainability, robustness, transparency, fairness, and privacy. In addition to these five, we propose a sixth fundamental aspect: conformity, that is, the probabilistic assurance that the system will behave as the machine learner expects. In this paper, we present a methodology to link conformal prediction with explainable machine learning by defining a new score function for rule-based classifiers that leverages rules predictive ability, the geometrical position of points within rules boundaries and the overlaps among rules as well, thanks to the definition of a geometrical rule similarity term. Furthermore, we address the problem of defining regions in the feature space where conformal guarantees are satisfied, by exploiting the definition of conformal critical set and showing how this set can be used to achieve new rules with improved performance on the target class. The overall methodology is tested with promising results on several datasets of real-world interest, such as domain name server tunneling detection or cardiovascular disease prediction.
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spellingShingle CONFIDERAI: a novel CONFormal Interpretable-by-Design score function for Explainable and Reliable Artificial Intelligence
Narteni, Sara
Carlevaro, Alberto
Dabbene, Fabrizio
Muselli, Marco
Mongelli, Maurizio
Machine Learning
Everyday life is increasingly influenced by artificial intelligence, and there is no question that machine learning algorithms must be designed to be reliable and trustworthy for everyone. Specifically, computer scientists consider an artificial intelligence system safe and trustworthy if it fulfills five pillars: explainability, robustness, transparency, fairness, and privacy. In addition to these five, we propose a sixth fundamental aspect: conformity, that is, the probabilistic assurance that the system will behave as the machine learner expects. In this paper, we present a methodology to link conformal prediction with explainable machine learning by defining a new score function for rule-based classifiers that leverages rules predictive ability, the geometrical position of points within rules boundaries and the overlaps among rules as well, thanks to the definition of a geometrical rule similarity term. Furthermore, we address the problem of defining regions in the feature space where conformal guarantees are satisfied, by exploiting the definition of conformal critical set and showing how this set can be used to achieve new rules with improved performance on the target class. The overall methodology is tested with promising results on several datasets of real-world interest, such as domain name server tunneling detection or cardiovascular disease prediction.
title CONFIDERAI: a novel CONFormal Interpretable-by-Design score function for Explainable and Reliable Artificial Intelligence
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.01778