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20222026
most citedScientific Inference With Interpretable Machine Learning: Analyzing Models to Learn About Real-World Phenomena

28 citations · 42 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.LG2026

We Need Explanation Cards to Connect Explanation Algorithms to the Real World

Eric Günther, Balázs Szabados, Kristof Meding +3

Algorithmic explanations are intended to help stakeholders understand opaque algorithmic decisions, but in practice, they often fall short. First, the meaning of algorithmic explan…

stat.ML2026

Explainable AI Isn't Enough! Rethinking Algorithmic Contestability

Timo Freiesleben, Kristof Meding, Gunnar König

Machine learning systems increasingly make life-changing decisions about individuals, such as loan approvals, hiring, and cheating detection, raising a pressing question: how can i…

stat.ML2025

Performative Validity of Recourse Explanations

Gunnar König, Hidde Fokkema, Timo Freiesleben +2

When applicants get rejected by an algorithmic decision system, recourse explanations provide actionable suggestions for how to change their input features to get a positive evalua…

cs.AI2023★ 3 cited

Dear XAI Community, We Need to Talk! Fundamental Misconceptions in Current XAI Research

Timo Freiesleben, Gunnar König

Despite progress in the field, significant parts of current XAI research are still not on solid conceptual, ethical, or methodological grounds. Unfortunately, these unfounded parts…

stat.ML2023

Efficient SAGE Estimation via Causal Structure Learning

Christoph Luther, Gunnar König, Moritz Grosse-Wentrup

The Shapley Additive Global Importance (SAGE) value is a theoretically appealing interpretability method that fairly attributes global importance to a model's features. However, it…

stat.ML2022★ 11 cited

Improvement-Focused Causal Recourse (ICR)

Gunnar König, Timo Freiesleben, Moritz Grosse-Wentrup

Algorithmic recourse recommendations, such as Karimi et al.'s (2021) causal recourse (CR), inform stakeholders of how to act to revert unfavourable decisions. However, some actions…

stat.ML2022★ 28 cited

Scientific Inference With Interpretable Machine Learning: Analyzing Models to Learn About Real-World Phenomena

Timo Freiesleben, Gunnar König, Christoph Molnar +1

To learn about real world phenomena, scientists have traditionally used models with clearly interpretable elements. However, modern machine learning (ML) models, while powerful pre…