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20192023
most citedFooling LIME and SHAP: Adversarial Attacks on Post hoc Explanation Methods

168 citations · 301 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.CL2023★ 4 cited

Post Hoc Explanations of Language Models Can Improve Language Models

Satyapriya Krishna, Jiaqi Ma, Dylan Slack +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in performing complex tasks. Moreover, recent research has shown that incorporating human-annotated rationale…

cs.LG2023★ 6 cited

TABLET: Learning From Instructions For Tabular Data

Dylan Slack, Sameer Singh

Acquiring high-quality data is often a significant challenge in training machine learning (ML) models for tabular prediction, particularly in privacy-sensitive and costly domains l…

cs.LG2022★ 7 cited

TalkToModel: Explaining Machine Learning Models with Interactive Natural Language Conversations

Dylan Slack, Satyapriya Krishna, Himabindu Lakkaraju +1

Machine Learning (ML) models are increasingly used to make critical decisions in real-world applications, yet they have become more complex, making them harder to understand. To th…

cs.LG2022★ 28 cited

Rethinking Explainability as a Dialogue: A Practitioner's Perspective

Himabindu Lakkaraju, Dylan Slack, Yuxin Chen +2

As practitioners increasingly deploy machine learning models in critical domains such as health care, finance, and policy, it becomes vital to ensure that domain experts function e…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

SAFER: Data-Efficient and Safe Reinforcement Learning via Skill Acquisition

Dylan Slack, Yinlam Chow, Bo Dai +1

Methods that extract policy primitives from offline demonstrations using deep generative models have shown promise at accelerating reinforcement learning(RL) for new tasks. Intuiti…

cs.LG2021★ 4 cited

Feature Attributions and Counterfactual Explanations Can Be Manipulated

Dylan Slack, Sophie Hilgard, Sameer Singh +1

As machine learning models are increasingly used in critical decision-making settings (e.g., healthcare, finance), there has been a growing emphasis on developing methods to explai…

cs.CL2021

On the Lack of Robust Interpretability of Neural Text Classifiers

Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Michele Donini, Dylan Slack +3

With the ever-increasing complexity of neural language models, practitioners have turned to methods for understanding the predictions of these models. One of the most well-adopted…

cs.LG2021★ 3 cited

Counterfactual Explanations Can Be Manipulated

Dylan Slack, Sophie Hilgard, Himabindu Lakkaraju +1

Counterfactual explanations are emerging as an attractive option for providing recourse to individuals adversely impacted by algorithmic decisions. As they are deployed in critical…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Defuse: Harnessing Unrestricted Adversarial Examples for Debugging Models Beyond Test Accuracy

Dylan Slack, Nathalie Rauschmayr, Krishnaram Kenthapadi

We typically compute aggregate statistics on held-out test data to assess the generalization of machine learning models. However, statistics on test data often overstate model gene…

cs.LG2020

Differentially Private Language Models Benefit from Public Pre-training

Gavin Kerrigan, Dylan Slack, Jens Tuyls

Language modeling is a keystone task in natural language processing. When training a language model on sensitive information, differential privacy (DP) allows us to quantify the de…

cs.LG2020★ 23 cited

Reliable Post hoc Explanations: Modeling Uncertainty in Explainability

Dylan Slack, Sophie Hilgard, Sameer Singh +1

As black box explanations are increasingly being employed to establish model credibility in high-stakes settings, it is important to ensure that these explanations are accurate and…

cs.LG2019★ 1 cited

Fair Meta-Learning: Learning How to Learn Fairly

Dylan Slack, Sorelle Friedler, Emile Givental

Data sets for fairness relevant tasks can lack examples or be biased according to a specific label in a sensitive attribute. We demonstrate the usefulness of weight based meta-lear…

cs.LG2019★ 168 cited

Fooling LIME and SHAP: Adversarial Attacks on Post hoc Explanation Methods

Dylan Slack, Sophie Hilgard, Emily Jia +2

As machine learning black boxes are increasingly being deployed in domains such as healthcare and criminal justice, there is growing emphasis on building tools and techniques for e…

cs.LG2019★ 6 cited

Fairness Warnings and Fair-MAML: Learning Fairly with Minimal Data

Dylan Slack, Sorelle Friedler, Emile Givental

Motivated by concerns surrounding the fairness effects of sharing and transferring fair machine learning tools, we propose two algorithms: Fairness Warnings and Fair-MAML. The firs…

cs.LG2019★ 48 cited

Assessing the Local Interpretability of Machine Learning Models

Dylan Slack, Sorelle A. Friedler, Carlos Scheidegger +1

The increasing adoption of machine learning tools has led to calls for accountability via model interpretability. But what does it mean for a machine learning model to be interpret…