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20162023
most citedA Unified Approach to Interpreting Model Predictions

7.6k citations · 11.1k across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.CL2023★ 1.6k cited

Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4

Sébastien Bubeck, Varun Chandrasekaran, Ronen Eldan +11

Artificial intelligence (AI) researchers have been developing and refining large language models (LLMs) that exhibit remarkable capabilities across a variety of domains and tasks,…

cs.CL2023★ 50 cited

ART: Automatic multi-step reasoning and tool-use for large language models

Bhargavi Paranjape, Scott Lundberg, Sameer Singh +3

Large language models (LLMs) can perform complex reasoning in few- and zero-shot settings by generating intermediate chain of thought (CoT) reasoning steps. Further, each reasoning…

cs.CV2022★ 3 cited

Adaptive Testing of Computer Vision Models

Irena Gao, Gabriel Ilharco, Scott Lundberg +1

Vision models often fail systematically on groups of data that share common semantic characteristics (e.g., rare objects or unusual scenes), but identifying these failure modes is…

cs.CL2022

Fixing Model Bugs with Natural Language Patches

Shikhar Murty, Christopher D. Manning, Scott Lundberg +1

Current approaches for fixing systematic problems in NLP models (e.g. regex patches, finetuning on more data) are either brittle, or labor-intensive and liable to shortcuts. In con…

cs.LG2022★ 21 cited

Algorithms to estimate Shapley value feature attributions

Hugh Chen, Ian C. Covert, Scott M. Lundberg +1

Feature attributions based on the Shapley value are popular for explaining machine learning models; however, their estimation is complex from both a theoretical and computational s…

cs.LG2021★ 270 cited

Explaining a Series of Models by Propagating Shapley Values

Hugh Chen, Scott M. Lundberg, Su-In Lee

Local feature attribution methods are increasingly used to explain complex machine learning models. However, current methods are limited because they are extremely expensive to com…

cs.LG2021

Axiomatic Explanations for Visual Search, Retrieval, and Similarity Learning

Mark Hamilton, Scott Lundberg, Lei Zhang +2

Visual search, recommendation, and contrastive similarity learning power technologies that impact billions of users worldwide. Modern model architectures can be complex and difficu…

cs.LG2020★ 123 cited

Explaining by Removing: A Unified Framework for Model Explanation

Ian Covert, Scott Lundberg, Su-In Lee

Researchers have proposed a wide variety of model explanation approaches, but it remains unclear how most methods are related or when one method is preferable to another. We descri…

cs.LG2020★ 19 cited

Feature Removal Is a Unifying Principle for Model Explanation Methods

Ian Covert, Scott Lundberg, Su-In Lee

Researchers have proposed a wide variety of model explanation approaches, but it remains unclear how most methods are related or when one method is preferable to another. We examin…

cs.LG2020★ 29 cited

Shapley Flow: A Graph-based Approach to Interpreting Model Predictions

Jiaxuan Wang, Jenna Wiens, Scott Lundberg

Many existing approaches for estimating feature importance are problematic because they ignore or hide dependencies among features. A causal graph, which encodes the relationships…

cs.LG2020★ 37 cited

True to the Model or True to the Data?

Hugh Chen, Joseph D. Janizek, Scott Lundberg +1

A variety of recent papers discuss the application of Shapley values, a concept for explaining coalitional games, for feature attribution in machine learning. However, the correct…

cs.LG2020★ 206 cited

Understanding Global Feature Contributions With Additive Importance Measures

Ian Covert, Scott Lundberg, Su-In Lee

Understanding the inner workings of complex machine learning models is a long-standing problem and most recent research has focused on local interpretability. To assess the role of…

cs.LG2020★ 6 cited

Forecasting adverse surgical events using self-supervised transfer learning for physiological signals

Hugh Chen, Scott Lundberg, Gabe Erion +2

Hundreds of millions of surgical procedures take place annually across the world, which generate a prevalent type of electronic health record (EHR) data comprising time series phys…

cs.LG2019★ 8 cited

Explaining Models by Propagating Shapley Values of Local Components

Hugh Chen, Scott Lundberg, Su-In Lee

In healthcare, making the best possible predictions with complex models (e.g., neural networks, ensembles/stacks of different models) can impact patient welfare. In order to make t…

cs.LG2019★ 2 cited

Improving performance of deep learning models with axiomatic attribution priors and expected gradients

Gabriel Erion, Joseph D. Janizek, Pascal Sturmfels +2

Recent research has demonstrated that feature attribution methods for deep networks can themselves be incorporated into training; these attribution priors optimize for a model whos…

cs.LG2019★ 267 cited

Explainable AI for Trees: From Local Explanations to Global Understanding

Scott M. Lundberg, Gabriel Erion, Hugh Chen +7

Tree-based machine learning models such as random forests, decision trees, and gradient boosted trees are the most popular non-linear predictive models used in practice today, yet…

cs.LG2018★ 543 cited

Consistent Individualized Feature Attribution for Tree Ensembles

Scott M. Lundberg, Gabriel G. Erion, Su-In Lee

Interpreting predictions from tree ensemble methods such as gradient boosting machines and random forests is important, yet feature attribution for trees is often heuristic and not…

cs.LG2018★ 8 cited

Hybrid Gradient Boosting Trees and Neural Networks for Forecasting Operating Room Data

Hugh Chen, Scott Lundberg, Su-In Lee

Time series data constitutes a distinct and growing problem in machine learning. As the corpus of time series data grows larger, deep models that simultaneously learn features and…

cs.LG2017★ 3 cited

Anesthesiologist-level forecasting of hypoxemia with only SpO2 data using deep learning

Gabriel Erion, Hugh Chen, Scott M. Lundberg +1

We use a deep learning model trained only on a patient's blood oxygenation data (measurable with an inexpensive fingertip sensor) to predict impending hypoxemia (low blood oxygen)…

cs.LG2017★ 36 cited

Checkpoint Ensembles: Ensemble Methods from a Single Training Process

Hugh Chen, Scott Lundberg, Su-In Lee

We present the checkpoint ensembles method that can learn ensemble models on a single training process. Although checkpoint ensembles can be applied to any parametric iterative lea…

cs.AI2017★ 151 cited

Consistent feature attribution for tree ensembles

Scott M. Lundberg, Su-In Lee

Note that a newer expanded version of this paper is now available at: arXiv:1802.03888 It is critical in many applications to understand what features are important for a model, an…

cs.AI2017★ 7.6k cited

A Unified Approach to Interpreting Model Predictions

Scott Lundberg, Su-In Lee

Understanding why a model makes a certain prediction can be as crucial as the prediction's accuracy in many applications. However, the highest accuracy for large modern datasets is…

cs.AI2016★ 104 cited

An unexpected unity among methods for interpreting model predictions

Scott Lundberg, Su-In Lee

Understanding why a model made a certain prediction is crucial in many data science fields. Interpretable predictions engender appropriate trust and provide insight into how the mo…