Dual feature-based and example-based explanation methods

A new approach to the local and global explanation based on selecting a convex hull constructed for the finite number of points around an explained instance is proposed. The convex hull allows us to consider a dual representation of instances in the form of convex combinations of extreme points of a...

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Main Authors: Andrei Konstantinov, Boris Kozlov, Stanislav Kirpichenko, Lev Utkin, Vladimir Muliukha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2025-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frai.2025.1506074/full
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Summary:A new approach to the local and global explanation based on selecting a convex hull constructed for the finite number of points around an explained instance is proposed. The convex hull allows us to consider a dual representation of instances in the form of convex combinations of extreme points of a produced polytope. Instead of perturbing new instances in the Euclidean feature space, vectors of convex combination coefficients are uniformly generated from the unit simplex, and they form a new dual dataset. A dual linear surrogate model is trained on the dual dataset. The explanation feature importance values are computed by means of simple matrix calculations. The approach can be regarded as a modification of the well-known model LIME. The dual representation inherently allows us to get the example-based explanation. The neural additive model is also considered as a tool for implementing the example-based explanation approach. Many numerical experiments with real datasets are performed for studying the approach. A code of proposed algorithms is available. The proposed results are fundamental and can be used in various application areas. They do not involve specific human subjects and human data.
ISSN:2624-8212