How Reliable and Stable are Explanations of XAI Methods?

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Main Authors: Ribeiro, José, Cardoso, Lucas, Santos, Vitor, Carvalho, Eduardo, Carneiro, Níkolas, Alves, Ronnie
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author Ribeiro, José
Cardoso, Lucas
Santos, Vitor
Carvalho, Eduardo
Carneiro, Níkolas
Alves, Ronnie
author_facet Ribeiro, José
Cardoso, Lucas
Santos, Vitor
Carvalho, Eduardo
Carneiro, Níkolas
Alves, Ronnie
contents Black box models are increasingly being used in the daily lives of human beings living in society. Along with this increase, there has been the emergence of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) methods aimed at generating additional explanations regarding how the model makes certain predictions. In this sense, methods such as Dalex, Eli5, eXirt, Lofo and Shap emerged as different proposals and methodologies for generating explanations of black box models in an agnostic way. Along with the emergence of these methods, questions arise such as "How Reliable and Stable are XAI Methods?". With the aim of shedding light on this main question, this research creates a pipeline that performs experiments using the diabetes dataset and four different machine learning models (LGBM, MLP, DT and KNN), creating different levels of perturbations of the test data and finally generates explanations from the eXirt method regarding the confidence of the models and also feature relevances ranks from all XAI methods mentioned, in order to measure their stability in the face of perturbations. As a result, it was found that eXirt was able to identify the most reliable models among all those used. It was also found that current XAI methods are sensitive to perturbations, with the exception of one specific method.
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spellingShingle How Reliable and Stable are Explanations of XAI Methods?
Ribeiro, José
Cardoso, Lucas
Santos, Vitor
Carvalho, Eduardo
Carneiro, Níkolas
Alves, Ronnie
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
I.2.6
Black box models are increasingly being used in the daily lives of human beings living in society. Along with this increase, there has been the emergence of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) methods aimed at generating additional explanations regarding how the model makes certain predictions. In this sense, methods such as Dalex, Eli5, eXirt, Lofo and Shap emerged as different proposals and methodologies for generating explanations of black box models in an agnostic way. Along with the emergence of these methods, questions arise such as "How Reliable and Stable are XAI Methods?". With the aim of shedding light on this main question, this research creates a pipeline that performs experiments using the diabetes dataset and four different machine learning models (LGBM, MLP, DT and KNN), creating different levels of perturbations of the test data and finally generates explanations from the eXirt method regarding the confidence of the models and also feature relevances ranks from all XAI methods mentioned, in order to measure their stability in the face of perturbations. As a result, it was found that eXirt was able to identify the most reliable models among all those used. It was also found that current XAI methods are sensitive to perturbations, with the exception of one specific method.
title How Reliable and Stable are Explanations of XAI Methods?
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
I.2.6
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.03108