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CoExBO optimizes lithium-ion batteries with user input, enhancing trust and efficiency.
problem User distrust in Bayesian optimization due to opacity and lack of user input.
method Preference learning and iterative explanation to integrate user insights.
result Algorithm converges to optimal solution even with adversarial user inputs.
"Why Should I Trust Interactive Learners?" Explaining Interactive Queries of Classifiers to Usersstat.ML
Although interactive learning puts the user into the loop, the learner remains mostly a black box for the user. Understanding the reasons behind queries and predictions is important when assessing how the learner works and, in turn, trust. Consequently, we propose the novel framework of explanatory interactive learning…
Study shows LLM-advisors match human performance in eliciting preferences but struggle with conflicting needs and trust.
problem How do LLM-advisors perform in complex financial domains where domain expertise is crucial?
method Lab-based user study with 64 participants, focusing on three challenges: preference elicitation, personalized guidance, and relationship building.
result LLM-advisors can match human performance in preference elicitation but struggle with conflicting needs and trust issues.
SPMF: A Social Trust and Preference Segmentation-based Matrix Factorization Recommendation Algorithmcs.IR
The traditional social recommendation algorithm ignores the following fact: the preferences of users with trust relationships are not necessarily similar, and the consideration of user preference similarity should be limited to specific areas. A social trust and preference segmentation-based matrix factorization (SPMF)…
TRUST improves tree models' accuracy while maintaining interpretability.
problem Piecewise-constant regression trees lack in predictive accuracy compared to black-box models.
method Combines Random Forest accuracy with interpretability of shallow trees and sparsity of linear models, using LLMs for explanations.
result TRUST outperforms other interpretable models in predictive accuracy and matches Random Forest's accuracy.
Paper quarantines unreliable Yelp users by detecting review spam.
problem Unreliable and spamming users deceive Yelp's users.
method Used RSD and spam detection techniques on key features.
result More than 80% of Yelp's accounts are unreliable, and highly-rated businesses are often spammed.
Recommending appropriate items to users is crucial in many e-commerce platforms that contain implicit data as users' browsing, purchasing and streaming history. One common approach consists in selecting the N most relevant items to each user, for a given N, which is called top-N recommendation. To do so, recommender sy…
We explore trust in a relatively new area of data science: Automated Machine Learning (AutoML). In AutoML, AI methods are used to generate and optimize machine learning models by automatically engineering features, selecting models, and optimizing hyperparameters. In this paper, we seek to understand what kinds of info…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can now automate the algorithm selection, feature engineering, and hyperparameter tuning steps in a machine learning workflow. Commonly known as AutoML or AutoAI, these technologies aim to relieve data scientists from the tedious manual work. However, today's AutoAI systems often present on…
System allows users to critique explanations of recommendations.
problem Improving trust and perceived quality in recommendation systems.
method Personalized explanations generated from review texts, with a novel critiquing method.
result Users prefer explanations with critiques over those without.
Explainable AI improves human decision accuracy but does not enhance it significantly.
problem Improving human decision-making through explainable AI.
method Comparing human decision accuracy with and without AI predictions, including or excluding explanations.
result Providing AI predictions improves human decision accuracy, but explanations do not significantly enhance it.
The data scarcity of user preferences and the cold-start problem often appear in real-world applications and limit the recommendation accuracy of collaborative filtering strategies. Leveraging the selections of social friends and foes can efficiently face both problems. In this study, we propose a strategy that perform…
FLAME improves privacy in federated learning without trusted parties.
problem Ensuring privacy in federated learning without trusted parties.
method FLAME uses the shuffle model of differential privacy to achieve better accuracy and privacy.
result FLAME protocols improve testing accuracy by 60.7% compared to local model FL.
User strategization undermines algorithmic trustworthiness.
problem User strategic behavior corrupts algorithmic data and trust.
method Modeling user-platform interactions as a game, analyzing strategic behavior's short-term benefits and long-term harms.
result User strategization can initially benefit platforms but ultimately harms their ability to make accurate decisions.
Social trust prediction addresses the significant problem of exploring interactions among users in social networks. Naturally, this problem can be formulated in the matrix completion framework, with each entry indicating the trustness or distrustness. However, there are two challenges for the social trust problem: 1) t…
With the proliferation of training data, distributed machine learning (DML) is becoming more competent for large-scale learning tasks. However, privacy concerns have to be given priority in DML, since training data may contain sensitive information of users. In this paper, we propose a privacy-preserving ADMM-based DML…
As technology become more advanced, those who design, use and are otherwise affected by it want to know that it will perform correctly, and understand why it does what it does, and how to use it appropriately. In essence they want to be able to trust the systems that are being designed. In this survey we present assura…
JAXFit speeds up curve fitting on GPUs.
problem Nonlinear least squares curve fitting problems.
method Trust region method on GPU with automatic differentiation.
result Significantly faster than CPU and other GPU libraries.
This paper improves context-aware recommender systems by selecting and incorporating relevant low-dimensional contextual information.
problem Generating accurate recommendations is not enough; contextual information can cause issues like battery drain and privacy.
method Developed a feature-selection algorithm based on genetic algorithms to reduce context dimensions while maintaining explainability.
result The approach improves accuracy and transparency in recommendations, outperforming state-of-the-art models.
Develops a new deep learning framework for privacy-preserving text representations.
problem Privacy concerns in deep learning frameworks requiring data pooling to a trusted server.
method Three modules: embedding, randomization, and classifier. Novel LDP protocol reduces privacy impact on accuracy.
result Framework delivers comparable or better performance than non-private and existing LDP protocols.
People who design, use, and are affected by autonomous artificially intelligent agents want to be able to \emph{trust} such agents -- that is, to know that these agents will perform correctly, to understand the reasoning behind their actions, and to know how to use them appropriately. Many techniques have been devised …
Framework enhances AI explainability by aligning with human cognitive models.
problem Lack of explainability in AI models hinders trust and accountability.
method Integrates explainability techniques with Malle's five category model of behavior explanation.
result Demonstrates practical relevance in credit risk assessment and regulatory analysis.
A method for trust evaluation of devices in human-device coexistence systems.
problem Efficient trust evaluation of devices in systems with diverse physical and social attributes.
method Canonical correlation analysis-enhanced hypergraph self-supervised learning (HSLCCA).
result The proposed HSLCCA method significantly outperforms baseline algorithms in identifying trusted devices.
This survey analyzes knowledge discovery in cryptocurrency transactions.
problem Understanding user behaviors and collective actions in cryptocurrency transactions.
method Data mining techniques and literature review.
result Classified existing research into three aspects and discussed major findings.
While machine learning (ML) models are being increasingly trusted to make decisions in different and varying areas, the safety of systems using such models has become an increasing concern. In particular, ML models are often trained on data from potentially untrustworthy sources, providing adversaries with the opportun…
CrystalCandle creates user-friendly explanations for machine learning models.
problem Low trust in predictive models due to lack of interpretability.
method End-to-end pipeline for model interpretation, including Model Importer, Interpreter, Narrative Generator, and Exporter.
result CrystalCandle leads to higher adoption rates and improved downstream metrics.
Interpretable explanations for recommender systems and other machine learning models are crucial to gain user trust. Prior works that have focused on paths connecting users and items in a heterogeneous network have several limitations, such as discovering relationships rather than true explanations, or disregarding oth…
HyperSHAP explains HPO hyperparameters and interactions, improving trust and adoption.
problem Tackling opaque HPO methods and lack of user trust.
method Game-theoretic explainability framework based on Shapley values and interactions.
result Provides insights into hyperparameter contributions and interactions.
Study finds visual explanations do not significantly improve human accuracy or trust in model predictions.
problem Measuring the impact of visual explanations on human accuracy and trust in model predictions.
method Randomized controlled trial with image-based age prediction task, varying levels of explanation quality.
result Visual explanations do not significantly alter human accuracy or trust in the model.
One obstacle to applying reinforcement learning algorithms to real-world problems is the lack of suitable reward functions. Designing such reward functions is difficult in part because the user only has an implicit understanding of the task objective. This gives rise to the agent alignment problem: how do we create age…
This paper improves privacy in federated learning without a trusted server.
problem Privacy in federated learning with silos that distrust each other.
method Introduces Inter-Silo Record-Level Differential Privacy (ISRL-DP) and accelerated algorithms for convex and smooth losses.
result Achieves optimal privacy and accuracy tradeoffs in federated learning.
Foundation Priorscs.AI
Introduces foundation priors for using model-generated data in empirical research.
problem Using model-generated data as real observations in empirical research.
method Introduces foundation priors as an exponential-tilted, generalized Bayesian update of the user's primitive prior.
result Synthetic data reflects both model patterns and user's priors, enabling principled use in empirical work.
A detailed understanding of users contributes to the understanding of the Web's evolution, and to the development of Web applications. Although for new Web platforms such a study is especially important, it is often jeopardized by the lack of knowledge about novel phenomena due to the sparsity of data. Akin to human tr…
Autonomous AI systems will be entering human society in the near future to provide services and work alongside humans. For those systems to be accepted and trusted, the users should be able to understand the reasoning process of the system, i.e. the system should be transparent. System transparency enables humans to fo…
A new recommendation method combining deep learning and graph analysis improves performance.
problem Challenges in recommender systems like cold-start and sparsity.
method Matrix Factorization, deep Autoencoders, and deep embedding methods.
result The proposed method outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods.
New framework quantifies uncertainties in neural network explanations.
problem Lack of methods to quantify uncertainties in neural network explanations.
method Converts any explanation method into a Bayesian neural network method, modeling uncertainties.
result Allows quantification of explanation uncertainties and appropriate confidence levels.
This paper improves deep learning model consistency through ensemble methods.
problem Consistency and correct-consistency issues in deep learning models.
method Formal definition of consistency and correct-consistency, proving ensemble improvement, proposing dynamic snapshot ensemble method.
result Ensemble methods can improve correct-consistency of deep learning models.
Transparency, user trust, and human comprehension are popular ethical motivations for interpretable machine learning. In support of these goals, researchers evaluate model explanation performance using humans and real world applications. This alone presents a challenge in many areas of artificial intelligence. In this …
Recent efforts in Machine Learning (ML) interpretability have focused on creating methods for explaining black-box ML models. However, these methods rely on the assumption that simple approximations, such as linear models or decision-trees, are inherently human-interpretable, which has not been empirically tested. Addi…
New trust matrix quantifies breakdowns in deep neural networks.
problem Understanding trust breakdowns in deep learning models.
method Introduces trust matrix and conditional trust densities to analyze deep neural networks.
result Trust matrices reveal areas needing improvement for deep neural networks.
SCoRE provides risk control for selective prediction models.
problem Enforcing strict error control in selective prediction models.
method SCoRE framework based on conformal inference and hypothesis testing.
result SCoRE offers binary trust decisions with finite-sample error control.
Most accurate recommender systems are black-box models, hiding the reasoning behind their recommendations. Yet explanations have been shown to increase the user's trust in the system in addition to providing other benefits such as scrutability, meaning the ability to verify the validity of recommendations. This gap bet…
Today, large amounts of valuable data are distributed among millions of user-held devices, such as personal computers, phones, or Internet-of-things devices. Many companies collect such data with the goal of using it for training machine learning models allowing them to improve their services. User-held data is, howeve…
Two multifidelity trust-region methods use low-fidelity models for efficient optimization.
problem Efficiently solving complex optimization problems with limited data.
method Sketched Trust-Region (STR) and SVD Trust-Region (SVDTR) methods using low-fidelity models.
result Potential gain in efficiency demonstrated through numerical examples.
New AI technique explains neural net decisions over time.
problem Difficulty of explaining AI decisions in time series data.
method Proposes a novel XAI technique for deep learning methods.
result Preserves and exploits the natural time ordering of data.
Machine Learning models become increasingly proficient in complex tasks. However, even for experts in the field, it can be difficult to understand what the model learned. This hampers trust and acceptance, and it obstructs the possibility to correct the model. There is therefore a need for transparency of machine learn…
Understanding why machine learning models behave the way they do empowers both system designers and end-users in many ways: in model selection, feature engineering, in order to trust and act upon the predictions, and in more intuitive user interfaces. Thus, interpretability has become a vital concern in machine learnin…