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most citedMarabou 2.0: A Versatile Formal Analyzer of Neural Networks

6 citations · 12 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.LG2026

Verified SHAP: Provable Bounds for Exact Shapley Values of Neural Networks

David Boetius, Shahaf Bassan, Guy Katz +2

Shapley additive explanations (SHAP) are widely recognised as computationally intractable for neural networks, since they induce an exponential search space over the input features…

cs.AI2026

FAME: Formal Abstract Minimal Explanation for Neural Networks

Ryma Boumazouza, Raya Elsaleh, Melanie Ducoffe +2

We propose FAME (Formal Abstract Minimal Explanations), a new class of abductive explanations grounded in abstract interpretation. FAME is the first method to scale to large neural…

cs.LG2026

Unifying Formal Explanations: A Complexity-Theoretic Perspective

Shahaf Bassan, Xuanxiang Huang, Guy Katz

Previous work has explored the computational complexity of deriving two fundamental types of explanations for ML model predictions: (1) *sufficient reasons*, which are subsets of i…

cs.LG2026

Provably Explaining Neural Additive Models

Shahaf Bassan, Yizhak Yisrael Elboher, Tobias Ladner +4

Despite significant progress in post-hoc explanation methods for neural networks, many remain heuristic and lack provable guarantees. A key approach for obtaining explanations with…

cs.LG2026

Formal Mechanistic Interpretability: Automated Circuit Discovery with Provable Guarantees

Itamar Hadad, Guy Katz, Shahaf Bassan

*Automated circuit discovery* is a central tool in mechanistic interpretability for identifying the internal components of neural networks responsible for specific behaviors. While…

cs.LG2025

SHAP Meets Tensor Networks: Provably Tractable Explanations with Parallelism

Reda Marzouk, Shahaf Bassan, Guy Katz

Although Shapley additive explanations (SHAP) can be computed in polynomial time for simple models like decision trees, they unfortunately become NP-hard to compute for more expres…

cs.LG2025

Additive Models Explained: A Computational Complexity Approach

Shahaf Bassan, Michal Moshkovitz, Guy Katz

Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) are commonly considered *interpretable* within the ML community, as their structure makes the relationship between inputs and outputs relatively…

cs.LG2025

Explaining, Fast and Slow: Abstraction and Refinement of Provable Explanations

Shahaf Bassan, Yizhak Yisrael Elboher, Tobias Ladner +2

Despite significant advancements in post-hoc explainability techniques for neural networks, many current methods rely on heuristics and do not provide formally provable guarantees…

cs.LG2025

What makes an Ensemble (Un) Interpretable?

Shahaf Bassan, Guy Amir, Meirav Zehavi +1

Ensemble models are widely recognized in the ML community for their limited interpretability. For instance, while a single decision tree is considered interpretable, ensembles of t…

cs.CL2025

CLATTER: Comprehensive Entailment Reasoning for Hallucination Detection

Ron Eliav, Arie Cattan, Eran Hirsch +4

A common approach to hallucination detection casts it as a natural language inference (NLI) task, often using LLMs to classify whether the generated text is entailed by correspondi…

cs.LG2025

Self-Explaining Neural Networks for Business Process Monitoring

Shahaf Bassan, Shlomit Gur, Sergey Zeltyn +3

Tasks in Predictive Business Process Monitoring (PBPM), such as Next Activity Prediction, focus on generating useful business predictions from historical case logs. Recently, Deep…

cs.LG2025

Explain Yourself, Briefly! Self-Explaining Neural Networks with Concise Sufficient Reasons

Shahaf Bassan, Ron Eliav, Shlomit Gur

*Minimal sufficient reasons* represent a prevalent form of explanation - the smallest subset of input features which, when held constant at their corresponding values, ensure that…

cs.LG2025

On the Computational Tractability of the (Many) Shapley Values

Reda Marzouk, Shahaf Bassan, Guy Katz +1

Recent studies have examined the computational complexity of computing Shapley additive explanations (also known as SHAP) across various models and distributions, revealing their t…

cs.LG2024

Hard to Explain: On the Computational Hardness of In-Distribution Model Interpretation

Guy Amir, Shahaf Bassan, Guy Katz

The ability to interpret Machine Learning (ML) models is becoming increasingly essential. However, despite significant progress in the field, there remains a lack of rigorous chara…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Local vs. Global Interpretability: A Computational Complexity Perspective

Shahaf Bassan, Guy Amir, Guy Katz

The local and global interpretability of various ML models has been studied extensively in recent years. However, despite significant progress in the field, many known results rema…

cs.AI2024★ 6 cited

Marabou 2.0: A Versatile Formal Analyzer of Neural Networks

Haoze Wu, Omri Isac, Aleksandar Zeljić +14

This paper serves as a comprehensive system description of version 2.0 of the Marabou framework for formal analysis of neural networks. We discuss the tool's architectural design a…

cs.AI2023★ 1 cited

Formally Explaining Neural Networks within Reactive Systems

Shahaf Bassan, Guy Amir, Davide Corsi +2

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly being used as controllers in reactive systems. However, DNNs are highly opaque, which renders it difficult to explain and justify their…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

Towards Formal XAI: Formally Approximate Minimal Explanations of Neural Networks

Shahaf Bassan, Guy Katz

With the rapid growth of machine learning, deep neural networks (DNNs) are now being used in numerous domains. Unfortunately, DNNs are "black-boxes", and cannot be interpreted by h…

cs.SD2022

Unsupervised Symbolic Music Segmentation using Ensemble Temporal Prediction Errors

Shahaf Bassan, Yossi Adi, Jeffrey S. Rosenschein

Symbolic music segmentation is the process of dividing symbolic melodies into smaller meaningful groups, such as melodic phrases. We proposed an unsupervised method for segmenting…