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most citedLocal Rule-Based Explanations of Black Box Decision Systems

191 citations · 536 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.AI2023★ 11 cited

Ensemble of Counterfactual Explainers

Riccardo Guidotti, Salvatore Ruggieri

In eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), several counterfactual explainers have been proposed, each focusing on some desirable properties of counterfactual instances: minimali…

cs.LG2023

A Protocol for Continual Explanation of SHAP

Andrea Cossu, Francesco Spinnato, Riccardo Guidotti +1

Continual Learning trains models on a stream of data, with the aim of learning new information without forgetting previous knowledge. Given the dynamic nature of such environments,…

eess.IV2023★ 12 cited

Exemplars and Counterexemplars Explanations for Image Classifiers, Targeting Skin Lesion Labeling

Carlo Metta, Riccardo Guidotti, Yuan Yin +2

Explainable AI consists in developing mechanisms allowing for an interaction between decision systems and humans by making the decisions of the formers understandable. This is part…

cs.AI2023★ 14 cited

Boosting Synthetic Data Generation with Effective Nonlinear Causal Discovery

Martina Cinquini, Fosca Giannotti, Riccardo Guidotti

Synthetic data generation has been widely adopted in software testing, data privacy, imbalanced learning, and artificial intelligence explanation. In all such contexts, it is cruci…

quant-ph2022★ 46 cited

Quantum Clustering with k-Means: a Hybrid Approach

Alessandro Poggiali, Alessandro Berti, Anna Bernasconi +2

Quantum computing is a promising paradigm based on quantum theory for performing fast computations. Quantum algorithms are expected to surpass their classical counterparts in terms…

cs.CV2021★ 2 cited

Explainable Deep Image Classifiers for Skin Lesion Diagnosis

Carlo Metta, Andrea Beretta, Riccardo Guidotti +4

A key issue in critical contexts such as medical diagnosis is the interpretability of the deep learning models adopted in decision-making systems. Research in eXplainable Artificia…

cs.AI2021★ 55 cited

Benchmarking and Survey of Explanation Methods for Black Box Models

Francesco Bodria, Fosca Giannotti, Riccardo Guidotti +3

The widespread adoption of black-box models in Artificial Intelligence has enhanced the need for explanation methods to reveal how these obscure models reach specific decisions. Re…

cs.LG2021★ 140 cited

GLocalX -- From Local to Global Explanations of Black Box AI Models

Mattia Setzu, Riccardo Guidotti, Anna Monreale +3

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has come to prominence as one of the major components of our society, with applications in most aspects of our lives. In this field, complex and highly…

cs.CY2020★ 2 cited

Give more data, awareness and control to individual citizens, and they will help COVID-19 containment

Mirco Nanni, Gennady Andrienko, Albert-László Barabási +36

The rapid dynamics of COVID-19 calls for quick and effective tracking of virus transmission chains and early detection of outbreaks, especially in the phase 2 of the pandemic, when…

cs.CV2020

Black Box Explanation by Learning Image Exemplars in the Latent Feature Space

Riccardo Guidotti, Anna Monreale, Stan Matwin +1

We present an approach to explain the decisions of black box models for image classification. While using the black box to label images, our explanation method exploits the latent…

cs.LG2018

On The Stability of Interpretable Models

Riccardo Guidotti, Salvatore Ruggieri

Interpretable classification models are built with the purpose of providing a comprehensible description of the decision logic to an external oversight agent. When considered in is…

cs.AI2018★ 35 cited

Open the Black Box Data-Driven Explanation of Black Box Decision Systems

Dino Pedreschi, Fosca Giannotti, Riccardo Guidotti +4

Black box systems for automated decision making, often based on machine learning over (big) data, map a user's features into a class or a score without exposing the reasons why. Th…

cs.AI2018★ 191 cited

Local Rule-Based Explanations of Black Box Decision Systems

Riccardo Guidotti, Anna Monreale, Salvatore Ruggieri +3

The recent years have witnessed the rise of accurate but obscure decision systems which hide the logic of their internal decision processes to the users. The lack of explanations f…

cs.CY2018

A Survey Of Methods For Explaining Black Box Models

Riccardo Guidotti, Anna Monreale, Salvatore Ruggieri +3

In the last years many accurate decision support systems have been constructed as black boxes, that is as systems that hide their internal logic to the user. This lack of explanati…

cs.DB2017★ 28 cited

Next Basket Prediction using Recurring Sequential Patterns

Riccardo Guidotti, Giulio Rossetti, Luca Pappalardo +2

Nowadays, a hot challenge for supermarket chains is to offer personalized services for their customers. Next basket prediction, i.e., supplying the customer a shopping list for the…