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The Pandora's Box Problem with Sequential Inspections
Ali Aouad, Jingwei Ji, Yaron Shaposhnik
The Pandora's box problem (Weitzman 1979) is a core model in economic theory that captures an agent's (Pandora's) search for the best alternative (box). We study an important gener…
A Holistic Approach to Interpretability in Financial Lending: Models, Visualizations, and Summary-Explanations
Chaofan Chen, Kangcheng Lin, Cynthia Rudin +3
Lending decisions are usually made with proprietary models that provide minimally acceptable explanations to users. In a future world without such secrecy, what decision support to…
Understanding How Dimension Reduction Tools Work: An Empirical Approach to Deciphering t-SNE, UMAP, TriMAP, and PaCMAP for Data Visualization
Yingfan Wang, Haiyang Huang, Cynthia Rudin +1
Dimension reduction (DR) techniques such as t-SNE, UMAP, and TriMAP have demonstrated impressive visualization performance on many real world datasets. One tension that has always…
An Interpretable Model with Globally Consistent Explanations for Credit Risk
Chaofan Chen, Kangcheng Lin, Cynthia Rudin +3
We propose a possible solution to a public challenge posed by the Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO), which is to provide an explainable model for credit risk assessment. Rather than pr…