On tackling explanation redundancy in decision trees

Y Izza, A Ignatiev, J Marques-Silva - Journal of Artificial Intelligence …, 2022 - jair.org
Decision trees (DTs) epitomize the ideal of interpretability of machine learning (ML) models.
The interpretability of decision trees motivates explainability approaches by so-called …

Conflict-driven clause learning SAT solvers

J Marques-Silva, I Lynce, S Malik - Handbook of satisfiability, 2021 - ebooks.iospress.nl
One of the most important paradigm shifts in the use of SAT solvers for solving industrial
problems has been the introduction of clause learning. Clause learning entails adding a …

Logic-based explainability in machine learning

J Marques-Silva - … Knowledge: 18th International Summer School 2022 …, 2023 - Springer
The last decade witnessed an ever-increasing stream of successes in Machine Learning
(ML). These successes offer clear evidence that ML is bound to become pervasive in a wide …

SAT-based rigorous explanations for decision lists

A Ignatiev, J Marques-Silva - … and Applications of Satisfiability Testing–SAT …, 2021 - Springer
Decision lists (DLs) find a wide range of uses for classification problems in Machine
Learning (ML), being implemented in anumber of ML frameworks. DLs are often perceived …

Smallest MUS extraction with minimal hitting set dualization

A Ignatiev, A Previti, M Liffiton… - … Conference on Principles …, 2015 - Springer
Minimal explanations of infeasibility are of great interest in many domains. In propositional
logic, these are referred to as Minimal Unsatisfiable Subsets (MUSes). An unsatisfiable …

Minimal sets over monotone predicates in boolean formulae

J Marques-Silva, M Janota, A Belov - … Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 13-19 …, 2013 - Springer
The importance and impact of the Boolean satisfiability (SAT) problem in many practical
settings is well-known. Besides SAT, a number of computational problems related with …

Eliminating the impossible, whatever remains must be true: On extracting and applying background knowledge in the context of formal explanations

J Yu, A Ignatiev, PJ Stuckey, N Narodytska… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
The rise of AI methods to make predictions and decisions has led to a pressing need for
more explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) methods. One common approach for XAI is to …

Core-guided minimal correction set and core enumeration

N Narodytska, N Bjørner… - … Joint Conference on …, 2018 - upcommons.upc.edu
A set of constraints is unsatisfiable if there is no solution that satisfies these constraints. To
analyse unsatisfiable problems, the user needs to understand where inconsistencies come …

Eliminating the impossible, whatever remains must be true

J Yu, A Ignatiev, PJ Stuckey, N Narodytska… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The rise of AI methods to make predictions and decisions has led to a pressing need for
more explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) methods. One common approach for XAI is to …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding the complexity of axiom pinpointing in lightweight description logics

R Penaloza, B Sertkaya - Artificial Intelligence, 2017 - Elsevier
Lightweight description logics are knowledge representation formalisms characterised by
the low complexity of their standard reasoning tasks. They have been successfully employed …