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New framework ConceptSMILE audits trustworthiness of AI explanations

Researchers have introduced ConceptSMILE, a novel framework designed to audit the trustworthiness of concept-based explainable AI (XAI). This model-agnostic approach evaluates the reliability of human-understandable concept explanations by measuring shifts in concept responses to input perturbations. ConceptSMILE assesses reliability through metrics such as attribution accuracy, surrogate fidelity, faithfulness, stability, and consistency. Initial evaluations on retinal fundus images, comparing concepts from MedSAM and vision-language models (VLMs), revealed varying reliability across different concepts and pathways, with MedSAM showing stronger spatial attribution and VLM pathways demonstrating better vessel faithfulness. AI

IMPACT Enhances the evaluation of AI interpretability, potentially leading to more reliable and trustworthy AI systems in critical applications.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new research paper published on arXiv detailing a novel framework for auditing AI explanations. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New framework ConceptSMILE audits trustworthiness of AI explanations

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Mohadeseh Mollapour, Koorosh Aslansefat, Zeinab Dehghani, Bhupesh Kumar Mishra, Tejal Shah, Zhibao Mian ·

    ConceptSMILE: Auditing the Trustworthiness of Concept-Based Explainable AI

    arXiv:2607.09649v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Concept-based explainable artificial intelligence (AI) can make model reasoning more human-understandable, but concept-level outputs are not automatically trustworthy. We introduce ConceptSMILE, a model-agnostic perturbation-based a…

  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Zhibao Mian ·

    ConceptSMILE: Auditing the Trustworthiness of Concept-Based Explainable AI

    Concept-based explainable artificial intelligence (AI) can make model reasoning more human-understandable, but concept-level outputs are not automatically trustworthy. We introduce ConceptSMILE, a model-agnostic perturbation-based auditing framework for evaluating the reliability…