Title
Dissonance Between Human and Machine Understanding
Abstract
Complex machine learning models are deployed in several critical domains including healthcare and autonomous vehicles nowadays, albeit as functional blackboxes. Consequently, there has been a recent surge in interpreting decisions of such complex models in order to explain their actions to humans. Models which correspond to human interpretation of a task are more desirable in certain contexts and can help attribute liability, build trust, expose biases and in turn build better models. It is therefore crucial to understand how and which models conform to human understanding of tasks. In this paper we present a large-scale crowdsourcing study that reveals and quantifies the dissonance between human and machine understanding, through the lens of an image classification task. In particular, we seek to answer the following questions: Which (well performing) complex ML models are closer to humans in their use of features to make accurate predictions? How does task difficulty affect the feature selection capability of machines in comparison to humans? Are humans consistently better at selecting features that make image recognition more accurate? Our findings have important implications on human-machine collaboration, considering that a long term goal in the field of artificial intelligence is to make machines capable of learning and reasoning like humans.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3359158
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Keywords
Field
DocType
crowdsourcing, dissonance, human intelligence, humans, image understanding, interpretability, machine learning models, machines, neural networks, object recognition
Cognitive dissonance,Psychology,Cognitive psychology
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
3
CSCW
[J]. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2019, 3(CSCW): 1-23
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zijian Zhang1279.14
Jaspreet Singh Suri233729.90
Ujwal Gadiraju3698.42
Avishek Anand410211.61