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most citedBenchmarking the Influence of Pre-training on Explanation Performance in MR Image Classification

13 citations · 26 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.CV2026

Local Label-Informed Feature Transfer for Generating Ground-Truth Medical Images: A Comparison of GAN- and Diffusion-Based Approaches

Rick Wilming, Irem Ozseker, Luca Matteo Cornils +4

Validating Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) methods in medical imaging requires ground-truth data with known locations of informative features. However, current approaches…

cs.LG2026

Feature salience - not task-informativeness - drives machine learning model explanations

Benedict Clark, Marta Oliveira, Rick Wilming +1

Explainable AI (XAI) promises to provide insight into machine learning models' decision processes, where one goal is to identify failures such as shortcut learning. This promise re…

cs.LG2026

The effect of whitening on explanation performance

Benedict Clark, Stoyan Karastoyanov, Rick Wilming +1

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) aims to provide transparent insights into machine learning models, yet the reliability of many feature attribution methods remains a criti…

cs.LG2024

Explainable AI needs formalization

Stefan Haufe, Rick Wilming, Benedict Clark +4

The field of "explainable artificial intelligence" (XAI) seemingly addresses the desire that decisions of machine learning systems should be human-understandable. However, in its c…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

GECOBench: A Gender-Controlled Text Dataset and Benchmark for Quantifying Biases in Explanations

Rick Wilming, Artur Dox, Hjalmar Schulz +3

Large pre-trained language models have become a crucial backbone for many downstream tasks in natural language processing (NLP), and while they are trained on a plethora of data co…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

EXACT: Towards a platform for empirically benchmarking Machine Learning model explanation methods

Benedict Clark, Rick Wilming, Artur Dox +11

The evolving landscape of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) aims to improve the interpretability of intricate machine learning (ML) models, yet faces challenges in formalis…

cs.LG2023★ 8 cited

Theoretical Behavior of XAI Methods in the Presence of Suppressor Variables

Rick Wilming, Leo Kieslich, Benedict Clark +1

In recent years, the community of 'explainable artificial intelligence' (XAI) has created a vast body of methods to bridge a perceived gap between model 'complexity' and 'interpret…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

XAI-TRIS: Non-linear image benchmarks to quantify false positive post-hoc attribution of feature importance

Benedict Clark, Rick Wilming, Stefan Haufe

The field of 'explainable' artificial intelligence (XAI) has produced highly cited methods that seek to make the decisions of complex machine learning (ML) methods 'understandable'…

cs.CV2023★ 13 cited

Benchmarking the Influence of Pre-training on Explanation Performance in MR Image Classification

Marta Oliveira, Rick Wilming, Benedict Clark +4

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are frequently and successfully used in medical prediction tasks. They are often used in combination with transfer learning, leading to improve…

stat.ML2021★ 1 cited

Scrutinizing XAI using linear ground-truth data with suppressor variables

Rick Wilming, Céline Budding, Klaus-Robert Müller +1

Machine learning (ML) is increasingly often used to inform high-stakes decisions. As complex ML models (e.g., deep neural networks) are often considered black boxes, a wealth of pr…