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most citedLocal vs. Global Interpretability: A Computational Complexity Perspective

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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.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

On Improving Deep Active Learning with Formal Verification

Jonathan Spiegelman, Guy Amir, Guy Katz

Deep Active Learning (DAL) aims to reduce labeling costs in neural-network training by prioritizing the most informative unlabeled samples for annotation. Beyond selecting which sa…

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.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.AI2024

Safe and Reliable Training of Learning-Based Aerospace Controllers

Udayan Mandal, Guy Amir, Haoze Wu +10

In recent years, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) approaches have generated highly successful controllers for a myriad of complex domains. However, the opaque nature of these mode…

cs.LG2024

Verifying the Generalization of Deep Learning to Out-of-Distribution Domains

Guy Amir, Osher Maayan, Tom Zelazny +2

Deep neural networks (DNNs) play a crucial role in the field of machine learning, demonstrating state-of-the-art performance across various application domains. However, despite th…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Verification-Guided Shielding for Deep Reinforcement Learning

Davide Corsi, Guy Amir, Andoni Rodriguez +3

In recent years, Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has emerged as an effective approach to solving real-world tasks. However, despite their successes, DRL-based policies suffer fro…

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.LO2024

Shield Synthesis for LTL Modulo Theories

Andoni Rodriguez, Guy Amir, Davide Corsi +2

In recent years, Machine Learning (ML) models have achieved remarkable success in various domains. However, these models also tend to demonstrate unsafe behaviors, precluding their…

cs.AI2024★ 1 cited

Formally Verifying Deep Reinforcement Learning Controllers with Lyapunov Barrier Certificates

Udayan Mandal, Guy Amir, Haoze Wu +9

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is a powerful machine learning paradigm for generating agents that control autonomous systems. However, the ``black box'' nature of DRL agents lim…