Explainable Benchmarking through the Lense of Concept Learning
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| author | Zhang, Quannian Röder, Michael Srivastava, Nikit Kouagou, N'Dah Jean Ngomo, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga |
| author_facet | Zhang, Quannian Röder, Michael Srivastava, Nikit Kouagou, N'Dah Jean Ngomo, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga |
| contents | Evaluating competing systems in a comparable way, i.e., benchmarking them, is an undeniable pillar of the scientific method. However, system performance is often summarized via a small number of metrics. The analysis of the evaluation details and the derivation of insights for further development or use remains a tedious manual task with often biased results. Thus, this paper argues for a new type of benchmarking, which is dubbed explainable benchmarking. The aim of explainable benchmarking approaches is to automatically generate explanations for the performance of systems in a benchmark. We provide a first instantiation of this paradigm for knowledge-graph-based question answering systems. We compute explanations by using a novel concept learning approach developed for large knowledge graphs called PruneCEL. Our evaluation shows that PruneCEL outperforms state-of-the-art concept learners on the task of explainable benchmarking by up to 0.55 points F1 measure. A task-driven user study with 41 participants shows that in 80\% of the cases, the majority of participants can accurately predict the behavior of a system based on our explanations. Our code and data are available at https://github.com/dice-group/PruneCEL/tree/K-cap2025 |
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| spellingShingle | Explainable Benchmarking through the Lense of Concept Learning Zhang, Quannian Röder, Michael Srivastava, Nikit Kouagou, N'Dah Jean Ngomo, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Machine Learning Evaluating competing systems in a comparable way, i.e., benchmarking them, is an undeniable pillar of the scientific method. However, system performance is often summarized via a small number of metrics. The analysis of the evaluation details and the derivation of insights for further development or use remains a tedious manual task with often biased results. Thus, this paper argues for a new type of benchmarking, which is dubbed explainable benchmarking. The aim of explainable benchmarking approaches is to automatically generate explanations for the performance of systems in a benchmark. We provide a first instantiation of this paradigm for knowledge-graph-based question answering systems. We compute explanations by using a novel concept learning approach developed for large knowledge graphs called PruneCEL. Our evaluation shows that PruneCEL outperforms state-of-the-art concept learners on the task of explainable benchmarking by up to 0.55 points F1 measure. A task-driven user study with 41 participants shows that in 80\% of the cases, the majority of participants can accurately predict the behavior of a system based on our explanations. Our code and data are available at https://github.com/dice-group/PruneCEL/tree/K-cap2025 |
| title | Explainable Benchmarking through the Lense of Concept Learning |
| topic | Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.20439 |