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Previous works attempting to close this gap have failed to fully investigate the exponentially growing number of feature combinations which deep networks consider automatically during training. In this work, we develop a tractable selection algorithm to efficiently identify the necessary feature combinations byleveraging techniques infeature interaction detection. Our proposed Sparse Interaction AdditiveNetworks (SIAN) construct abridge from thesesimple andinterpretable models tofullyconnected neuralnetworks.



These robot cats have glowing eyes and artificial heartbeats – and could help reduce stress in children

The Guardian

At Springwood library in the Blue Mountains, a librarian appears with a cat carrier in each hand. About 30 children gather around in a semicircle. Inside each carrier, a pair of beaming, sci-fi-like eyes peer out at the expectant crowd. "That is the funniest thing ever," one child says. The preschoolers have just finished reading The Truck Cat by Deborah Frenkel and Danny Snell for the annual National Simultaneous Storytime.


Explainable Classification Techniques for Quantum Dot Device Measurements

Schug, Daniel, Kovach, Tyler J., Wolfe, M. A., Benson, Jared, Park, Sanghyeok, Dodson, J. P., Corrigan, J., Eriksson, M. A., Zwolak, Justyna P.

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

There has been a longstanding trade-off between the accuracy of a candidate machine learning (ML) model and its Our previous work developed a methodology that addresses interpretability. This is evident in the extreme example of some of these concerns by combining vectorization deep neural networks (DNNs), which can offer excellent methods to image data with EBMs. The possibility of using accuracy for many problems but are limited in their interpretability EBMs as models for image data poses numerous challenges, due to the number of inaccessible layers. Alternatively, the principal of which is the mapping from images there are simple techniques, such as linear models or to a vector representation that could then be used directly decision trees, that offer the user full comprehension of the with EBMs. In our previous work, we used the Gabor internal weights. However, these are often unable to model Wavelet transform in conjunction with a constrained optimization the complex relationships seen in modern datasets. For tabular procedure to extract key image features from the data, there has been considerable progress toward finding data (Schug et al. 2024). We also applied a highly custom a middle ground, typically through explaining complex feature engineering to tailor this process to the particular models with surrogates such as LIME (Ribeiro, Singh, and dataset (Schug et al. 2023). In both cases, we relied on domain Guestrin 2016) and Shapley (Lundberg and Lee 2017).


Estimating Discontinuous Time-Varying Risk Factors and Treatment Benefits for COVID-19 with Interpretable ML

Lengerich, Benjamin, Nunnally, Mark E., Aphinyanaphongs, Yin, Caruana, Rich

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Treatment protocols, disease understanding, and viral characteristics changed over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic; as a result, the risks associated with patient comorbidities and biomarkers also changed. We add to the conversation regarding inflammation, hemostasis and vascular function in COVID-19 by performing a time-varying observational analysis of over 4000 patients hospitalized for COVID-19 in a New York City hospital system from March 2020 to August 2021. To perform this analysis, we apply tree-based generalized additive models with temporal interactions which recover discontinuous risk changes caused by discrete protocols changes. We find that the biomarkers of thrombosis increasingly predicted mortality from March 2020 to August 2021, while the association between biomarkers of inflammation and thrombosis weakened. Beyond COVID-19, this presents a straightforward methodology to estimate unknown and discontinuous time-varying effects.


AI-powered mechanisms as judges: Breaking ties in chess and beyond

Anbarci, Nejat, Ismail, Mehmet S.

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Recently, Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology use has been rising in sports. For example, to reduce staff during the COVID-19 pandemic, major tennis tournaments replaced human line judges with Hawk-Eye Live technology. AI is now ready to move beyond such mundane tasks, however. A case in point and a perfect application ground is chess. To reduce the growing incidence of draws, many elite tournaments have resorted to fast chess tiebreakers. However, these tiebreakers are vulnerable to strategic manipulation, e.g., in the last game of the 2018 World Chess Championship, Magnus Carlsen -- in a significantly advantageous position -- offered a draw to Fabiano Caruana (whom accepted the offer) to proceed to fast chess tiebreaks in which Carlsen had even better odds of winning the championship. By contrast, we prove that our AI-based method can serve as a judge to break ties without being vulnerable to such manipulation. It relies on measuring the difference between the evaluations of a player's actual move and the best move as deemed by a powerful chess engine. If there is a tie, the player with the higher quality measure wins the tiebreak. We generalize our method to all competitive sports and games in which AI's superiority is -- or can be -- established.


Higher-order Neural Additive Models: An Interpretable Machine Learning Model with Feature Interactions

Kim, Minkyu, Choi, Hyun-Soo, Kim, Jinho

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Black-box models, such as deep neural networks, exhibit superior predictive performances, but understanding their behavior is notoriously difficult. Many explainable artificial intelligence methods have been proposed to reveal the decision-making processes of black box models. However, their applications in high-stakes domains remain limited. Recently proposed neural additive models (NAM) have achieved state-of-the-art interpretable machine learning. NAM can provide straightforward interpretations with slight performance sacrifices compared with multi-layer perceptron. However, NAM can only model 1$^{\text{st}}$-order feature interactions; thus, it cannot capture the co-relationships between input features. To overcome this problem, we propose a novel interpretable machine learning method called higher-order neural additive models (HONAM) and a feature interaction method for high interpretability. HONAM can model arbitrary orders of feature interactions. Therefore, it can provide the high predictive performance and interpretability that high-stakes domains need. In addition, we propose a novel hidden unit to effectively learn sharp-shape functions. We conducted experiments using various real-world datasets to examine the effectiveness of HONAM. Furthermore, we demonstrate that HONAM can achieve fair AI with a slight performance sacrifice. The source code for HONAM is publicly available.


Top 5 Philosophical issues of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

#artificialintelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is currently a very active scientific field. It was born in the 1950s and is still alive today. In the course of the development of artificial intelligence, different research routes have stimulated competition, and new problems and new ideas have continued to emerge. On the one hand, there are many resistances to theoretical development, and on the other hand, technological achievements have achieved brilliant results-which is rare in the history of science. The goal of AI and AI technology solutions is to reproduce human intelligence in a machine way.


What Chess Can Teach Us About the Future of AI and War - War on the Rocks

#artificialintelligence

This article was submitted in response to the call for ideas issued by the co-chairs of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, Eric Schmidt and Robert Work. It addresses the first question (part a.), which asks how will artificial intelligence affect the character and/or the nature of war. AI itself is not new -- the first AI neural network was designed in 1943. But AI as a critical factor in competitions is relatively novel and, as a result, there's not much data to draw from. However, the data that does exist is striking. Perhaps the most interesting examples are in the world of chess.


The King of the Computer Age

Slate

It wasn't easy and it wasn't especially pretty, but world chess champion Magnus Carlsen has successfully defended his crown in what was scheduled to be a 12-game match against world No. 2 Fabiano Caruana. After all 12 of those games were drawn, the victor was decided via a best-of-four series of "rapid chess" contests, in which each player has about 30 minutes to complete all his moves. The Norwegian Carlsen, by far the world's No. 1 player at rapid chess, predictably dominated Caruana, who entered the match ranked only No. 8 in the format, winning the playoff games 3-0 and retaining his title for another two years. What kind of match was it? A bit dull, to be honest, at least until Wednesday's rapid games. Top-level chess isn't the romantic game it once was, and it's becoming less and less romantic every year.