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Pujan Budhathoki
dblp:423/5515
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0002-1070-1006ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 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% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning
interpretability |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | ABLE: Using Adversarial Pairs to Construct Local Models for Explaining Model Predictions · KDD (1) 2026 |
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning › interpretability
local explanation |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | ABLE: Using Adversarial Pairs to Construct Local Models for Explaining Model Predictions · KDD (1) 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
linear surrogate model · 1.0gaussian noise · 1.0adversarial attack · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | ABLE: Using Adversarial Pairs to Construct Local Models for Explaining Model PredictionsabstractMachine learning models are increasingly used in critical applications but are mostly ''black boxes'' due to their lack of transparency. Local explanation approaches, such as LIME, address this issue by approximating the behavior of complex models near a test instance using simple, interpretable models. However, these approaches often suffer from instability and poor local fidelity. In this paper, we propose a novel approach called Adversarially Bracketed Local Explanation (ABLE) to address these limitations. Our approach first generates a set of neighborhood points near the test instance, xtest, by adding bounded Gaussian noise. For each neighborhood point D, we apply an adversarial attack to generate an adversarial point A with minimal perturbation that results in a different label than D. A second adversarial attack is then performed on A to generate a point A' that has the same label as D (and thus different than A). The points A and A' form an adversarial pair that brackets the local decision boundary for xtest. We then train a linear model on these adversarial pairs to approximate the local decision boundary. Experimental results on six UCI benchmark datasets across three deep neural network architectures demonstrate that our approach achieves higher stability and fidelity than the state-of-the-art. Krishna Khadka, Sunny Shree, Pujan Budhathoki, Yu Lei 0001, Raghu Kacker, D. Richard Kuhn |
KDD (1) | 3 |