Title
A Survey Of Methods For Explaining Black Box Models.
Abstract
In recent years, many accurate decision support systems have been constructed as black boxes, that is as systems that hide their internal logic to the user. This lack of explanation constitutes both a practical and an ethical issue. The literature reports many approaches aimed at overcoming this crucial weakness, sometimes at the cost of sacrificing accuracy for interpretability. The applications in which black box decision systems can be used are various, and each approach is typically developed to provide a solution for a specific problem and, as a consequence, it explicitly or implicitly delineates its own definition of interpretability and explanation. The aim of this article is to provide a classification of the main problems addressed in the literature with respect to the notion of explanation and the type of black box system. Given a problem definition, a black box type, and a desired explanation, this survey should help the researcher to find the proposals more useful for his own work. The proposed classification of approaches to open black box models should also be useful for putting the many research open questions in perspective.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2019
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Open the black box, explanations, interpretability, transparent models
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1802.01933
25
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.90
74
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Riccardo Guidotti111224.81
Anna Monreale258142.49
Franco Turini3842101.81
Dino Pedreschi43083244.47
Fosca Giannotti52948253.39