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Stop explaining black box machine learning models for high stakes decisions and use interpretable models instead
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Black box machine learning models are currently being used for high stakes decision-making throughout society, causing problems throughout healthcare, criminal justice, and in other domains. People have hoped that creating methods for explaining these black box models will alleviate some of these problems, but trying to explain black box models, rather than creating models that are interpretable in the first place, is likely to perpetuate bad practices and can potentially cause catastrophic harm to society. There is a way forward - it is to design models that are inherently interpretable. This manuscript clarifies the chasm between explaining black boxes and using inherently interpretable models, outlines several key reasons why explainable black boxes should be avoided in high-stakes decisions, identifies challenges to interpretable machine learning, and provides several example applications where interpretable models could potentially replace black box models in criminal justice, healthcare, and computer vision.
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“A central challenge in this domain is navigating the well-documented trade-off between model accuracy and inherent interpretability [6].”
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“However, this remarkable capability comes with a fundamental trade-off: as models become more powerful, they simultaneously become more opaque, creating what researchers term the interpretability–performance paradox [5].”
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“Rudin takes this further, saying that post-hoc explanations “must be wrong”; that they are by definition not completely faithful to the original model and must be less accurate with respect to the primary task.”
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“For instance, this work has demonstrated that simple interpretable models (with two and respectively three features) can perform as well as the widely used criminal justice COMPAS algorithm, which instead draws on 137 features.”
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“While Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises significant enhancements for Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSSs), the opacity of many AI models remains a major barrier to clinical adoption, primarily due to interpretability and trust challenges.”
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“However, as with cognitive offloading, there is a potential risk that over-reliance on AI for decision-making could diminish human capacity for critical thinking (Rudin, 2019).”
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“Many research groups have tackled early prediction of AKI using electronic health records (EHR) data [8–11], but no model so far explains the rationale behind specific predictions despite a clear need for explainable and actionable predictions [6, 12].”
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“This goes against the move towards transparency and open science, and makes it hard to uncover the origin of, or gaps in, chatbots' knowledge 10 .”
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“As users of these systems have grown beyond ML experts and the research community, the need to better interpret and understand them has grown as well, particularly in the context of high-stakes decisions that affect individuals ' health or wellbeing (Lakkaraju et al., 2016; Lipton, 2018; Rudin, 2019).”
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“Against this background, research into explainability/interpretability 1 of ML models has experienced rapid expansion and innovation in recent years, with a focus on method development.”
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“Black-box models, despite their high predictive performance, often lack the necessary transparency [76].”
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“While “black‐box” algorithms raise complex opaqueness and interpretability challenges, simpler interpretable ML algorithms do not, but have generally also been regarded as less powerful (Guidotti et al. 2019; see however, Rudin 2019).”
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“Rudin [6], for example, argues that opaque models should be avoided in high-stakes settings such as medicine, where interpretability and trustworthiness are at least as important as predictive accuracy.”
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“However, it is important to note that this trade-off does not always occur, in which case a more interpretable model is generally preferred (i.e. explainable modelling) [76].”
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“a substantial computer science literature now advocates either post hoc explanation techniques or the outright substitution of interpretable models in high-stakes settings (Rudin, 2019).”
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“Interpretability is therefore not a stylistic preference in forensic work but a condition of testimonial usefulness, which is an applied vindication of Rudin's (2019) argument for interpretable models in high-stakes settings.”
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“As perfectly stated in [347], it is not necessarily true that models that are more complex are inherently more accurate.”
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“What is more, even when applicable, the legal requirements are ambiguous as to what is required (i.e., “meaningful information about the logic involved”) and risk compromising the value that can be derived from this information: “Because the definition of what constitutes a viable explanation is unclear, even strong regulations such as “right to explanation” can be undermined with less‐than‐satisf”
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“Inherently therefore, explanation models are not fully faithful representations of the original model, but are rather “approximations” thereof, which necessarily simultaneously reduces their explanatory potential (Rudin 2019).”
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“First, modern AI systems are often black-box models for which humans cannot see how or why the model made a prediction [54].”
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“However, post-hoc explanations are approximations to the underlying model rather than exact representations [65].”
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“The challenge remains to provide higher-level explainability that aligns with human cognitive processes [Rudin, 2019].”
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“Inherently interpretable ML models are designed such that an end user could understand its decisionmaking process (Lakkaraju et al., 2016; Rudin, 2019).”
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“Interpretable models often rely on carefully curated representations of data with meaningful input features (Rudin, 2019), often through discretization or binary encoding (Caruana et al., 2015; Lakkaraju et al., 2016; Ustun and Rudin, 2019).”
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“as black-box ML models are often too complex to be explained entirely, post hoc methods typically derive an approximate explanation (Gilpin et al., 2018; Rudin, 2019), which makes ensuring the fidelity of the explanations to the model a key challenge in this work.”
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“While largerscale evaluations are desirable, prior work (Rudin, 2019; Wiegreffe et al., 2021) has shown that even small samples, when selected for conceptual diversity and difficulty, yield robust insights into model behavior.”
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“With regards to methodology, explainability can either be an inherent characteristic of an algorithm or can be approximated by other methods [2].”
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“An important point to note here is that explainability has many facets and, unfortunately, the terminology of explainability is not well defined. Other terms such as interpretability and/or transparency are often used synonymously [2, 3].”
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“Importantly, however, inherent explainability will, in general, be more accurate than methods that only approximate explainability [2].”
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“While the work of Rudin et al. is important to raise attention to the shortcomings of approximating explainability methods, it is likely that some approximating methods, in contrast to the notion of [2], have value given the complex nature of explaining machine learning models.”
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“Rudin [33] argues that for high-stakes decisions, people should avoid using black-box models altogether, and instead should use interpretable models.”
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“Counterfactual explanations are normally considered contrastive by nature and therefore present a source of valuable complementary information to a given automatic prediction [52].”
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“Lastly, the opacity of most current AI models is one of the most popular topics of contemporary AI research (Rudin 2019).”
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“The literature supports this finding, emphasizing the importance of explainable AI in healthcare to ensure transparency and trustworthiness [30].”
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“The absence of any link to a factual knowledge source that can help LLMs reason on their generation introduce what is known as the “black box” effect (Rudin, 2019).”
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“Even with a multiscale model, the translation of genotype to phenotype can be complex, and the use of standard “black-box” machine learning algorithms prevents a straightforward biological interpretation (Rudin, 2019).”
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“AI technology is widely known to be difficult to explain and understand; AI has long been criticized for inexplicable “black box algorithms,” and calls to demystify these algorithms have created an entire category of explainable AI [37,38].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Rudin, C.
- Affiliations
- Duke University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Rudin, Cynthia
- ORCID
- Rudin, Cynthia
- Venue
- Nature Machine Intelligence
- Published
- 2019-05-13
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 206-215
- ISSN
- 2522-5839 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC9122117
- OpenAlex
- W2945976633
- Cited by
- 10,561
- References
- 50
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- FWCI
- 289.88
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- arxiv.org
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- Locations
- Nature Machine Intelligence (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Laura and John Arnold Foundation
- National Institutes of Health
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (R01EB025021)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality › Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy
- Keywords
- black-box models, explainable AI, model interpretability, high-stakes decision making, criminal justice, health care, algorithmic harms, computer vision
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