让AI解释能跨领域迁移,提升用户对新任务的理解效率。
Transferable XAI: Relating Understanding Across Domains with Explanation Transfer
- 用线性因子的仿射变换框架,关联不同领域的解释关系。
- 用户研究显示,跨域理解准确率、记忆效果和推理能力均最优。
- 适合需要频繁切换应用场景的AI系统使用者。
当前可解释AI(XAI)仅针对单一应用提供解释,但面对相关任务时,用户常依赖过往理解,导致过度泛化或重复记忆。实际上,相关任务可能共享解释因素,但存在差异:如身体质量指数(BMI)对心脏病与糖尿病风险影响相同,而胸痛更指向心脏病;温度与压力虽同影响空气污染,但方向相反。我们提出可迁移解释(Transferable XAI),通过线性因子解释的仿射变换框架,建立跨领域解释关系。该框架支持数据子空间(含增量XAI)、决策任务和属性间的转移。在形式化与总结性用户研究中,相较于单域与无域依赖解释,该方法显著提升用户对第二领域决策的理解力、因子回忆率及跨域解释关联能力。该框架通过解析子空间、任务与属性间的因子关系,增强解释在相关应用中的复用性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Current Explainable AI (XAI) focuses on explaining a single application, but when encountering related applications, users may rely on their prior understanding from previous explanations. This leads to either overgeneralization and AI overreliance, or burdensome independent memorization. Indeed, related decision tasks can share explanatory factors, but with some notable differences; e.g., body mass index (BMI) affects the risks for heart disease and diabetes at the same rate, but chest pain is more indicative of heart disease. Similarly, models using different attributes for the same task still share signals; e.g., temperature and pressure affect air pollution but in opposite directions due to the ideal gas law. Leveraging transfer of learning, we propose Transferable XAI to enable users to transfer understanding across related domains by explaining the relationship between domain explanations using a general affine transformation framework applied to linear factor explanations. The framework supports explanation transfer across various domain types: translation for data subspace (subsuming prior work on Incremental XAI), scaling for decision task, and mapping for attributes. Focusing on task and attributes domain types, in formative and summative user studies, we investigated how well participants could understand AI decisions from one domain to another. Compared to single-domain and domain-independent explanations, Transferable XAI was the most helpful for understanding the second domain, leading to the best decision faithfulness, factor recall, and ability to relate explanations between domains. This framework contributes to improving the reusability of explanations across related AI applications by explaining factor relationships between subspaces, tasks, and attributes.
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