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Review of effects of cognitive biases on interpretation of rule-based ML models (arxiv.org)
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In plain words: A survey of 20 known thinking shortcuts shows they can skew how people read logical rules a computer learns from data. Making rules readable is not enough; it suggests fixes designers can build in, though real tests are still needed.

Abstract · A review of possible effects of cognitive biases on the interpretation of rule-based machine learning models

While the interpretability of machine learning models is often equated with their mere syntactic comprehensibility, we think that interpretability goes beyond that, and that human interpretability should also be investigated from the point of view of cognitive science. The goal of this paper is to discuss to what extent cognitive biases may affect human understanding of interpretable machine learning models, in particular of logical rules discovered from data. Twenty cognitive biases are covered, as are possible debiasing techniques that can be adopted by designers of machine learning algorithms and software. Our review transfers results obtained in cognitive psychology to the domain of machine learning, aiming to bridge the current gap between these two areas. It needs to be followed by empirical studies specifically focused on the machine learning domain.

Tomáš Kliegr, Štěpán Bahník, Johannes Fürnkranz
arXiv:1804.02969 · stat.ML, cs.AI, cs.LG · submitted Apr 9, 2018 · updated Sep 13, 2021
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