当解释产生竞争：不确定性下的策略感知选择

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Abstract:Uncertainty-aware explanation methods often produce several alternatives for the same prediction. Selecting among them requires a policy for balancing prediction confidence, uncertainty, and application constraints. This paper presents a framework for applying such policies to a fixed set of generated explanations. Candidates are characterised by uncertainty change, prediction direction, and, when available, interval position relative to a decision boundary. The framework combines these properties with eligibility rules, optional bidirectional Pareto screening, and policy-aware ranking. A fictitious prostate-cancer example illustrates how different explanatory purposes lead to different selections from the same candidate set. We instantiate the framework with Calibrated Explanations for classification, thresholded regression, and plain regression. Across 41 benchmark datasets, mean candidate counts range from 11.57 to 21.75 for single-feature explanations and from $29.48$ to $69.53$ when conjunctions are included. Equal-weight and confidence-only policies yield an average selection-disagreement rate of $28.7\%$ while favouring the same confidence direction. A supporting $\delta$-CLUE experiment demonstrates use with a second generator. By making the selection policy explicit, the framework allows applications to compare and prioritise explanations according to their intended use.

Comments:	5 pages, 5 figures, journal
Subjects:	Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
Cite as:	arXiv:2410.05479 [cs.AI]
	(or arXiv:2410.05479v2 [cs.AI] for this version)
	https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2410.05479 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite

Submission history

From: Helena Löfström HeLo [view email]
[v1] Mon, 7 Oct 2024 20:21:51 UTC (937 KB)
[v2] Tue, 6 Oct 2026 10:38:02 UTC (229 KB)