Here is a formal impossibility result for XAI: Informative Post-Hoc Explanations Only Exist for Simple Functions. I'll give an online presentation about this work next tuesday in @timvanerven.nl 's Theory of Interpretable AI Seminar:
arxiv.org/abs/2508.11441
tverven.github.io/tiai-seminar/
Looking forward to the Winter School on Causality and Explainable AI in Paris next week!
xai-winter-school.github.io
Tübingen Conference for AI and Law starting on wednesday!
Keynotes by Rediet Abebe, Solon Borocas, Sylvie Delacroix, Lilian Edwards, Christoph Engel, Michal Gal, Philipp Hacker, Christoph Kern, Christoph Sorge.
ailawinstitute.de/conference-f...
Working on the interface of Machine Learning with Law, Philosophy, Ethics, or Social Science? Come join our new Lab for Norms and Practices in Machine Learning for Science.
uni-tuebingen.de/en/128980#c2
I love the #eurips initiative! But to live up to its potential, it should be accepted an official #neurips conference location (similar to Mexico City) and not just an addon! Then we would save C02, rather than adding to it!!! What can we do to achieve this?
Time to figure out which provable guarantees one can(not) give on XAI! Workshop "Theory of Explainable Machine
Learning", Dec 2 in Copenhagen as part of the Ellis
Unconference/EurIPS. Submission deadline: Oct 15.
sites.google.com/view/theory-...
eurips.cc/ellis/
Our Machine Learning for Science Cluster in Tübingen @ml4science.bsky.social is extending its collaboration with the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences #AIMS: We hire a joint research group leader, based in Kigali. Application deadline: August 31.
tinyurl.com/38z4e6dy
How to disentangle feature importance scores into contributions of individual features, feature interactions in the function, and feature dependencies in the data: #AISTATS with @gunnark und Eric Guenther:
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2410.23772
Code: github.com/gcskoenig/dipd
Video: youtu.be/7MrMjabTbuM
I am hiring PhD students and/or Postdocs, to work on the theory of explainable machine learning. Please apply through Ellis or IMPRS, deadlines end october/mid november. In particular: Women, where are you? Our community needs you!!!
imprs.is.mpg.de/application
ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...
Our #ICML position paper: #XAI is similar to applied statistics: it uses summary statistics in an attempt to answer real world questions. But authors need to state how concretely (!) their XAI statistics contributes to answer which concrete (!) question!
arxiv.org/abs/2402.02870
