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New metric quantifies AI explanation fragility in cybersecurity

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This paper introduces a novel metric, the Explanability Fragility Score, to quantify instability in AI explanations within cybersecurity intrusion detection systems. The research demonstrates that multicollinearity, a statistical issue with correlated features, can significantly inflate explanation variance and make feature importances non-identifiable. To address this, the paper proposes two mitigation methods, CAA-Filtering and SHARP, aimed at stabilizing AI explanations and improving trustworthiness in security-critical applications. AI

IMPACT Introduces methods to improve the trustworthiness and reproducibility of AI explanations in security-critical systems.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper detailing a new metric and mitigation methods for AI explainability.

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New metric quantifies AI explanation fragility in cybersecurity

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Ioannis J. Vourganas, Anna Lito Michala ·

    Stabilising Explainability Fragility in Cybersecurity AI: The Impact and Mitigation of Multicollinearity in Public Benchmark Datasets

    arXiv:2605.22529v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper investigates a unexplored yet impactful vulnerability in AI explainability used in intrusion detection (IDS): multicollinearity-induced instability. Despite extensive reliance on post-hoc explainability tools such as SHAP…

  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Anna Lito Michala ·

    Stabilising Explainability Fragility in Cybersecurity AI: The Impact and Mitigation of Multicollinearity in Public Benchmark Datasets

    This paper investigates a unexplored yet impactful vulnerability in AI explainability used in intrusion detection (IDS): multicollinearity-induced instability. Despite extensive reliance on post-hoc explainability tools such as SHAP or LIME, the impact of correlated features on e…

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