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most citedExplainable Machine Learning with Prior Knowledge: An Overview

31 citations · 40 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.CL2026

Disentangling Curriculum Learning in NLP: Towards a Unifying Taxonomy

Vanessa Toborek, Florian Seiffarth, Sebastian Müller +1

Despite more than a decade of curriculum learning (CL) research in NLP, the field lacks a principled account of which difficulty function or scheduler to use for a given problem. T…

cs.LG2026

Scientific Theory of a Black-Box: A Life Cycle-Scale XAI Framework Based on Constructive Empiricism

Sebastian Müller, Vanessa Toborek, Eike Stadtländer +3

Explainable AI (XAI) offers a growing number of algorithms that aim to answer specific questions about black-box models. What is missing is a principled way to consolidate explanat…

cs.LG2026

Improving Compactness and Reducing Ambiguity of CFIRE Rule-Based Explanations

Sebastian Müller, Tobias Schneider, Ruben Kemna +1

Models trained on tabular data are widely used in sensitive domains, increasing the demand for explanation methods to meet transparency needs. CFIRE is a recent algorithm in this d…

cs.CL2026

Four Quadrants of Difficulty: A Simple Categorisation and its Limits

Vanessa Toborek, Sebastian Müller, Christian Bauckhage

Curriculum Learning (CL) aims to improve the outcome of model training by estimating the difficulty of samples and scheduling them accordingly. In NLP, difficulty is commonly appro…

cs.CL2025

Beyond Shallow Heuristics: Leveraging Human Intuition for Curriculum Learning

Vanessa Toborek, Sebastian Müller, Tim Selbach +2

Curriculum learning (CL) aims to improve training by presenting data from "easy" to "hard", yet defining and measuring linguistic difficulty remains an open challenge. We investiga…

cs.LG2025

CFIRE: A General Method for Combining Local Explanations

Sebastian Müller, Vanessa Toborek, Tamás Horváth +1

We propose a novel eXplainable AI algorithm to compute faithful, easy-to-understand, and complete global decision rules from local explanations for tabular data by combining XAI me…

cs.LG2023

Cup Curriculum: Curriculum Learning on Model Capacity

Luca Scharr, Vanessa Toborek

Curriculum learning (CL) aims to increase the performance of a learner on a given task by applying a specialized learning strategy. This strategy focuses on either the dataset, the…

cs.LG2023★ 5 cited

An Empirical Evaluation of the Rashomon Effect in Explainable Machine Learning

Sebastian Müller, Vanessa Toborek, Katharina Beckh +3

The Rashomon Effect describes the following phenomenon: for a given dataset there may exist many models with equally good performance but with different solution strategies. The Ra…

cs.CL2022★ 4 cited

A New Aligned Simple German Corpus

Vanessa Toborek, Moritz Busch, Malte Boßert +2

"Leichte Sprache", the German counterpart to Simple English, is a regulated language aiming to facilitate complex written language that would otherwise stay inaccessible to differe…

cs.LG2021★ 31 cited

Explainable Machine Learning with Prior Knowledge: An Overview

Katharina Beckh, Sebastian Müller, Matthias Jakobs +6

This survey presents an overview of integrating prior knowledge into machine learning systems in order to improve explainability. The complexity of machine learning models has elic…