VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Vladimir Balayan
dblp:280/0046
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2024
—ORCID · none
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Trustworthy machine learning · 100% | |
| Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
1 paper |
Empirical software engineering · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning › interpretability
explainable AI |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | On the Importance of Application-Grounded Experimental Design for Evaluating Explainable ML Methods · AAAI 2024 |
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning
interpretability |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | On the Importance of Application-Grounded Experimental Design for Evaluating Explainable ML Methods · AAAI 2024 |
Empirical software engineering
experimental methodology |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | On the Importance of Application-Grounded Experimental Design for Evaluating Explainable ML Methods · AAAI 2024 |
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning
fairness |
0.2 | 1 | 2024 | On the Importance of Application-Grounded Experimental Design for Evaluating Explainable ML Methods · AAAI 2024 |
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | On the Importance of Application-Grounded Experimental Design for Evaluating Explainable ML MethodsabstractMost existing evaluations of explainable machine learning (ML) methods rely on simplifying assumptions or proxies that do not reflect real-world use cases; the handful of more robust evaluations on real-world settings have shortcomings in their design, generally leading to overestimation of methods' real-world utility. In this work, we seek to address this by conducting a study that evaluates post-hoc explainable ML methods in a setting consistent with the application context and provide a template for future evaluation studies. We modify and improve a prior study on e-commerce fraud detection by relaxing the original work's simplifying assumptions that departed from the deployment context. Our study finds no evidence for the utility of the tested explainable ML methods in the context, which is a drastically different conclusion from the earlier work. This highlights how seemingly trivial experimental design choices can yield misleading conclusions about method utility. In addition, our work carries lessons about the necessity of not only evaluating explainable ML methods using tasks, data, users, and metrics grounded in the intended application context but also developing methods tailored to specific applications, moving beyond general-purpose explainable ML methods. Kasun Amarasinghe, Kit T. Rodolfa, Sérgio M. Jesus, Valerie Chen, Vladimir Balayan, Pedro Saleiro, Pedro Bizarro, Ameet Talwalkar, Rayid Ghani |
AAAI | 5 |