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The Mythos of Model Interpretability: In machine learning, the concept of interpretability is both important and slippery.
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Supervised machine-learning models boast remarkable predictive capabilities. But can you trust your model? Will it work in deployment? What else can it tell you about the world?
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“Newer methodologies have the danger of becoming more complex and less interpretable, even when sophisticated interpretation technique are used11.”
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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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“While this expansion of the field has yielded a rich body of methodological work, recently, the community has begun to highlight the shortfalls such as the lack of consistent language and definitions, the lack of clearly defined explainability goals, and desiderata; and the lack of consensus on metrics and methods of evaluating the quality of explanations (Doshi-Velez and Kim, 2017; Lipton, 2018;”
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“For her, as for other people who are not AI specialists, it may be better to employ natural language, narrative, explanation by example, visualisations, and so forth (Barredo Arrieta et al., 2020;Borrego-Díaz & Galán-Páez, 2022;Lipton, 2018).”
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“According to Lipton [121], a model is transparent if its intrinsic structure satisfies at least one of the following three requirements:”
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“Unfortunately, scarce contributions have attempted to define such goals from a conceptual perspective [5, 13, 24, 30].”
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“However, it misses to consider other purposes motivating the need for interpretable AI models, such as causality, transferability, informativeness, fairness and confidence [5, 24, 25, 26].”
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“Therefore, post-hoc explanation techniques are employed to explain existing models (Došilović et al., 2018; Lipton, 2018).”
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“As explainability is not a monolithic concept and can play different roles in different applications (Lipton, 2018; Molnar, 2019), this process requires extensive domain/application-specific efforts.”
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“Too great an emphasis on making explanations psychologically fitting risks making it easier for bad actors to deceive and manipulate end-users (Baron, 2023;Lipton, 2018, pp. 21-22).”
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“While providing individuals with grounds to contest individual decisions is often cited as a central motivation of the field of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) (Ribeiro, Singh, and Guestrin 2016;Lipton 2018;Adadi and Berrada 2018;Molnar 2020), only very few technical works address contestability in greater detail (Mansi, Karusala, and Riedl 2025).”
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“Interpretability and explainability methods promoted by popular tools vary widely in their goals [120] and, like many 'snake oil' AI products [18, 59, 91], may encourage false confidence in their users [118].”
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“With the availability of more datasets, there is an increased benefit that allows more complex functions to be approximated for future developments in XAI [21,167].”
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“Clinical tasks are often complex and it is impossible to incorporate and evaluate all desirable properties (e.g. legality, ethicality, and robustness) in a model using standard predictive performance evaluation metrics (e.g. area under the receiver-operating curve) [12].”
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“Researchers do not specify what terms mean, use the same term for different meanings, or refer to the same notion by different terms.”
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“Lipton [12] points out that these terms are often ill-defined in the existing literature.”
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“These explanations have the potential to present plausible but misleading explanations [12, 75].”
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“However, it is important to note that ML models are not designed to identify causal relationships but rather association relationships 116 .”
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“Hence, trust in ML models is strongly related to their interpretability, which has thus become a focus of active research in the ML community 116,132 .”
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“As the field is still in its infancy, there is no consensus on the definition of the terms interpretability and explainability in this context, and recently various definitions have been proposed for these terms [9,88,110].”
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“Lipton [147], however, notes that even white-box models might not be interpretable anymore when their size exceed the limited capacity of human cognition”
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“We also considered the ethical implications of AI in preserving privacy and the necessity for transparency, oversight, and continuous evaluation of AI systems [52][53][54].”
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“XAI can be used to help us evaluate if predictions are biased and defend algorithmic decisions as being fair and ethical [18,19,46,66].”
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“Although, giving explanations can increase understanding of and trust in a system [19,46,64], simple explanations can hide undesirable attributes of the system and may mislead users into coming to dangerous or unfounded conclusions that could ultimately be unethical [21].”
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“Additionally, XAI can help to shed some light onto causality [18,46,67] although, there is a recognized need to go beyond causality/correlation to true “causability” [3].”
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“However, linear models, for example, are not strictly more interpretable than, for example, neural networks, especially when high-dimensional or heavily engineered features are used.”
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“On the other hand, there are some studies supporting that XAI is not always necessary [46,134,135].”
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“Lipton [46] argues that the short-term goal of building trust with doctors by developing transparent models might clash with the longer-term goal of improving health care.”
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“Lipton (2018) [31] and Gunning et al. (2019) [32] highlight that for AI to be effectively integrated into clinical practice, it must provide clear and interpretable explanations of its outputs.”
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“However, at this level of abstraction, explainability may be difficult to reach even to computer scientists and engineers (Lipton 2018).”
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“The proposed approach to algorithmic transparency deviates from the existing body of literature on explainable artificial intelligence (xAI), where the concept of transparency focuses on the explanation of the inner workings of algorithms or the interpretability of their individual outcomes (Lipton 2018; Ribeiro et al. 2016).”
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“This suggests a disconnect between organizational realities and current research, which undermines advancements [197,287].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Lipton, Z. C.
- Affiliations
- Carnegie Mellon University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Lipton, Zachary C.
- ORCID
- Lipton, Zachary C.
- Venue
- Queue
- Published
- 2018-06
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 31-57
- ISSN
- 0001-0782 (ISSN-L)
- 1542-7730
- 1542-7749
- OpenAlex
- W2439568532
- Cited by
- 5,427
- References
- 25
- Citations by year
- 2026: 803 · 2025: 918 · 2024: 633 · 2023: 657 · 2022: 575 · 2021: 664 · 2020: 521 · 2019: 395 · 2018: 190
- FWCI
- 249.23
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- arxiv.org
- Locations
- Communications of the ACM (publishedVersion)
- Queue (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- 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 › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
- Keywords
- model interpretability, explainable AI, machine learning models
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