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| author | De Bona, Francesco Bombassei Dominici, Gabriele Miller, Tim Langheinrich, Marc Gjoreski, Martin |
| author_facet | De Bona, Francesco Bombassei Dominici, Gabriele Miller, Tim Langheinrich, Marc Gjoreski, Martin |
| contents | As AI becomes fundamental in sectors like healthcare, explainable AI (XAI) tools are essential for trust and transparency. However, traditional user studies used to evaluate these tools are often costly, time consuming, and difficult to scale. In this paper, we explore the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) to replicate human participants to help streamline XAI evaluation. We reproduce a user study comparing counterfactual and causal explanations, replicating human participants with seven LLMs under various settings. Our results show that (i) LLMs can replicate most conclusions from the original study, (ii) different LLMs yield varying levels of alignment in the results, and (iii) experimental factors such as LLM memory and output variability affect alignment with human responses. These initial findings suggest that LLMs could provide a scalable and cost-effective way to simplify qualitative XAI evaluation. |
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| spellingShingle | Evaluating Explanations Through LLMs: Beyond Traditional User Studies De Bona, Francesco Bombassei Dominici, Gabriele Miller, Tim Langheinrich, Marc Gjoreski, Martin Artificial Intelligence As AI becomes fundamental in sectors like healthcare, explainable AI (XAI) tools are essential for trust and transparency. However, traditional user studies used to evaluate these tools are often costly, time consuming, and difficult to scale. In this paper, we explore the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) to replicate human participants to help streamline XAI evaluation. We reproduce a user study comparing counterfactual and causal explanations, replicating human participants with seven LLMs under various settings. Our results show that (i) LLMs can replicate most conclusions from the original study, (ii) different LLMs yield varying levels of alignment in the results, and (iii) experimental factors such as LLM memory and output variability affect alignment with human responses. These initial findings suggest that LLMs could provide a scalable and cost-effective way to simplify qualitative XAI evaluation. |
| title | Evaluating Explanations Through LLMs: Beyond Traditional User Studies |
| topic | Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.17781 |