为带拒答的线性模型设计最小化可解释性推理,兼顾准确性与效率。
Concisely Explaining the Doubt: Minimum-Size Abductive Explanations for Linear Models with a Reject Option
- 针对带拒答的线性模型,提出最小尺寸反事实解释的新算法。
- 对被拒绝样本,通过0-1整数规划实现最优解释,比已有方法更快。
- 适合医疗、金融等需可信拒答解释的高风险决策场景。
人工智能的可信度不仅取决于模型的决策结果,还在于其处理无法可靠决策情况的方式。在医疗、金融等关键领域,拒答机制允许模型在证据不足时放弃判断,此时必须解释拒答原因以支持人工干预。此类解释需具备可读性、忠实于模型,并具备实时计算效率。反事实解释能保证忠实性,但其精确计算对多数模型而言是NP难问题,限制了实际应用。计算最小尺寸反事实解释更困难,因需同时保证忠实性与最优性。先前工作仅在无拒答的线性模型中提出对数线性时间算法,或在有拒答的线性模型中使用线性规划求解解释(但不保证最小尺寸)。本文首次为带拒答的线性模型构建最小尺寸反事实解释:对接受样本,改进对数线性算法实现最优解释;对拒绝样本,建立0-1整数规划模型刻画最小尺寸拒答解释。尽管该模型理论上为NP难,实验表明其实际效率显著优于非最小尺寸的线性规划方法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Trustworthiness in artificial intelligence depends not only on what a model decides, but also on how it handles and explains cases in which a reliable decision cannot be made. In critical domains such as healthcare and finance, a reject option allows the model to abstain when evidence is insufficient, making it essential to explain why an instance is rejected in order to support informed human intervention. In these settings, explanations must not only be interpretable, but also faithful to the underlying model and computationally efficient enough to support real-time decision making. Abductive explanations guarantee fidelity, but their exact computation is known to be NP-hard for many classes of models, limiting their practical applicability. Computing \textbf{minimum-size} abductive explanations is an even more challenging problem, as it requires reasoning not only about fidelity but also about optimality. Prior work has addressed this challenge in restricted settings, including log-linear-time algorithms for computing minimum-size abductive explanations in linear models without rejection, as well as a polynomial-time method based on linear programming for computing abductive explanations, without guarantees of minimum size, for linear models with a reject option. In this work, we bridge these lines of research by computing minimum-size abductive explanations for linear models with a reject option. For accepted instances, we adapt the log-linear algorithm to efficiently compute optimal explanations. For rejected instances, we formulate a 0-1 integer linear programming problem that characterizes minimum-size abductive explanations of rejection. Although this formulation is NP-hard in theory, our experimental results show that it is consistently more efficient in practice than the linear-programming-based approach that does not guarantee minimum-size explanations.
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