Machine Learning Interpretability: A Survey on Methods and Metrics

• Tipo: Outra Publicação em Revista Científica Internacional
• Data: 2019

Autores

Carvalho, DV (Autor) Outra; Pereira, EM (Autor) Outra; Jaime S Cardoso (Autor) FEUP

Revista

Título: Electronics (Switzerland)

Vol. 8

Página Final: 832

ISSN: 2079-9292

Editora: MDPI

Indexação

ISI Web of Knowledge - 20 Citações

Scopus - 123 Citações

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ID Authenticus: P-00Q-VNJ

DOI: 10.3390/electronics8080832

Abstract (EN): Machine learning systems are becoming increasingly ubiquitous. These systems's adoption has been expanding, accelerating the shift towards a more algorithmic society, meaning that algorithmically informed decisions have greater potential for significant social impact. However, most of these accurate decision support systems remain complex black boxes, meaning their internal logic and inner workings are hidden to the user and even experts cannot fully understand the rationale behind their predictions. Moreover, new regulations and highly regulated domains have made the audit and verifiability of decisions mandatory, increasing the demand for the ability to question, understand, and trust machine learning systems, for which interpretability is indispensable. The research community has recognized this interpretability problem and focused on developing both interpretable models and explanation methods over the past few years. However, the emergence of these methods shows there is no consensus on how to assess the explanation quality. Which are the most suitable metrics to assess the quality of an explanation? The aim of this article is to provide a review of the current state of the research field on machine learning interpretability while focusing on the societal impact and on the developed methods and metrics. Furthermore, a complete literature review is presented in order to identify future directions of work on this field.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Nº de páginas: 34