HuberAIME: A Robust Approach to Explainable AI in the Presence of Outliers
With the increasing accuracy of machine-learning models in recent years, explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), which allows for an understanding of the internal decisions made by these models, has become essential. However, many explanation methods are vulnerable to outliers and noise, and the...
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| description | With the increasing accuracy of machine-learning models in recent years, explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), which allows for an understanding of the internal decisions made by these models, has become essential. However, many explanation methods are vulnerable to outliers and noise, and the results may be distorted by extreme values. This study devised a new method named HuberAIME, which is a variant of approximate inverse model explanations (AIME) and is robust to the Huber loss. HuberAIME limits the impact of outliers by weighting with iterative reweighted least squares and prevents the feature importance estimation of AIME from being degraded by extreme data points. Comparative experiments were conducted using the Wine dataset, which has almost no outliers, the Adult dataset, which contains extreme values, and the Statlog (German Credit) dataset, which has moderate outliers, to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. SHapley Additive exPlanations, AIME, and HuberAIME were evaluated using six metrics (explanatory accuracy, sparsity, stability, computational efficiency, robustness, and completeness). HuberAIME was equivalent to AIME on the Wine dataset. However, it outperformed AIME on the Adult dataset, exhibiting high fidelity and stability. On the Germain Credit dataset, AIME itself showed a certain degree of robustness, and there was no significant difference between AIME and HuberAIME. Overall, HuberAIME is useful for data that include serious outliers and maintains the same explanatory performance as AIME in cases of few outliers. Thus, HuberAIME is expected to improve the reliability of actual operations as a robust XAI method. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-df463d52f04345ac8d1c4d44ed30c85b2025-08-20T03:11:21ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362025-01-0113767967681010.1109/ACCESS.2025.356527910979913HuberAIME: A Robust Approach to Explainable AI in the Presence of OutliersTakafumi Nakanishi0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1029-6063School of Computer Science, Tokyo University of Technology, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo, JapanWith the increasing accuracy of machine-learning models in recent years, explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), which allows for an understanding of the internal decisions made by these models, has become essential. However, many explanation methods are vulnerable to outliers and noise, and the results may be distorted by extreme values. This study devised a new method named HuberAIME, which is a variant of approximate inverse model explanations (AIME) and is robust to the Huber loss. HuberAIME limits the impact of outliers by weighting with iterative reweighted least squares and prevents the feature importance estimation of AIME from being degraded by extreme data points. Comparative experiments were conducted using the Wine dataset, which has almost no outliers, the Adult dataset, which contains extreme values, and the Statlog (German Credit) dataset, which has moderate outliers, to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. SHapley Additive exPlanations, AIME, and HuberAIME were evaluated using six metrics (explanatory accuracy, sparsity, stability, computational efficiency, robustness, and completeness). HuberAIME was equivalent to AIME on the Wine dataset. However, it outperformed AIME on the Adult dataset, exhibiting high fidelity and stability. On the Germain Credit dataset, AIME itself showed a certain degree of robustness, and there was no significant difference between AIME and HuberAIME. Overall, HuberAIME is useful for data that include serious outliers and maintains the same explanatory performance as AIME in cases of few outliers. Thus, HuberAIME is expected to improve the reliability of actual operations as a robust XAI method.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10979913/Approximate inverse model explanationsexplainable AIglobal feature importanceHuber lossiterative reweighted least squaresmodel-agnostic explanations |
| spellingShingle | Takafumi Nakanishi HuberAIME: A Robust Approach to Explainable AI in the Presence of Outliers IEEE Access Approximate inverse model explanations explainable AI global feature importance Huber loss iterative reweighted least squares model-agnostic explanations |
| title | HuberAIME: A Robust Approach to Explainable AI in the Presence of Outliers |
| title_full | HuberAIME: A Robust Approach to Explainable AI in the Presence of Outliers |
| title_fullStr | HuberAIME: A Robust Approach to Explainable AI in the Presence of Outliers |
| title_full_unstemmed | HuberAIME: A Robust Approach to Explainable AI in the Presence of Outliers |
| title_short | HuberAIME: A Robust Approach to Explainable AI in the Presence of Outliers |
| title_sort | huberaime a robust approach to explainable ai in the presence of outliers |
| topic | Approximate inverse model explanations explainable AI global feature importance Huber loss iterative reweighted least squares model-agnostic explanations |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10979913/ |
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