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Autores principales: Vashistha, Ritwik, Farahi, Arya
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Publicado: 2024
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Acceso en línea:https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02062
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author Vashistha, Ritwik
Farahi, Arya
author_facet Vashistha, Ritwik
Farahi, Arya
contents With growing concerns regarding bias and discrimination in predictive models, the AI community has increasingly focused on assessing AI system trustworthiness. Conventionally, trustworthy AI literature relies on the probabilistic framework and calibration as prerequisites for trustworthiness. In this work, we depart from this viewpoint by proposing a novel trust framework inspired by the philosophy literature on trust. We present a precise mathematical definition of trustworthiness, termed $\mathcal{U}$-trustworthiness, specifically tailored for a subset of tasks aimed at maximizing a utility function. We argue that a model's $\mathcal{U}$-trustworthiness is contingent upon its ability to maximize Bayes utility within this task subset. Our first set of results challenges the probabilistic framework by demonstrating its potential to favor less trustworthy models and introduce the risk of misleading trustworthiness assessments. Within the context of $\mathcal{U}$-trustworthiness, we prove that properly-ranked models are inherently $\mathcal{U}$-trustworthy. Furthermore, we advocate for the adoption of the AUC metric as the preferred measure of trustworthiness. By offering both theoretical guarantees and experimental validation, AUC enables robust evaluation of trustworthiness, thereby enhancing model selection and hyperparameter tuning to yield more trustworthy outcomes.
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spellingShingle U-Trustworthy Models.Reliability, Competence, and Confidence in Decision-Making
Vashistha, Ritwik
Farahi, Arya
Machine Learning
With growing concerns regarding bias and discrimination in predictive models, the AI community has increasingly focused on assessing AI system trustworthiness. Conventionally, trustworthy AI literature relies on the probabilistic framework and calibration as prerequisites for trustworthiness. In this work, we depart from this viewpoint by proposing a novel trust framework inspired by the philosophy literature on trust. We present a precise mathematical definition of trustworthiness, termed $\mathcal{U}$-trustworthiness, specifically tailored for a subset of tasks aimed at maximizing a utility function. We argue that a model's $\mathcal{U}$-trustworthiness is contingent upon its ability to maximize Bayes utility within this task subset. Our first set of results challenges the probabilistic framework by demonstrating its potential to favor less trustworthy models and introduce the risk of misleading trustworthiness assessments. Within the context of $\mathcal{U}$-trustworthiness, we prove that properly-ranked models are inherently $\mathcal{U}$-trustworthy. Furthermore, we advocate for the adoption of the AUC metric as the preferred measure of trustworthiness. By offering both theoretical guarantees and experimental validation, AUC enables robust evaluation of trustworthiness, thereby enhancing model selection and hyperparameter tuning to yield more trustworthy outcomes.
title U-Trustworthy Models.Reliability, Competence, and Confidence in Decision-Making
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02062