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Mar 15 2021
Towards multi-modal causability with Graph Neural Networks enabling information fusion for explainable AI
Title: Towards multi-modal causability with Graph Neural Networks enabling information fusion for explainable AI
Authors: Holzinger Andreas, Malle Bernd, Saranti Anna, Pfeifer Bastian. (2021)
Journal: Information Fusion
Publisher: Elsevier
The authors describe a novel, holistic approach to an automated medical decision pipeline, building on state-of-the-art Machine Learning research, yet integrating the human-in-the-loop via an innovative, interactive & exploration-based explainability technique called counterfactual graphs. They outline the necessity of computing a joint multi-modal representation space in a decentralized fashion, for the reasons of scalability and performance as well as ever-evolving data protection regulations. This effort is indented as a motivation for the international research community and a launchpad for further work in the fields of multi-modal embeddings, interactive explainability, counterfactuals, causability, as well as necessary foundations for effective future human–AI interfaces.
Mar 05 2021
Sustainable computational science: the ReScience initiative
Title: Sustainable computational science: the ReScience initiative
Authors: Nicolas Rougier, Hinsen Konrad and others
Journal: PeerJ Computer Science
Publisher: PeerJ Inc.
Computer science offers a large set of tools for prototyping, writing, running, testing, validating, sharing and reproducing results; however, computational science lags behind. In the best case, authors may provide their source code as a compressed archive and they may feel confident their research is reproducible. But this is not exactly true.
James Buckheit and David Donoho proposed more than two decades ago that an article about computational results is advertising, not scholarship. The actual scholarship is the full software environment, code, and data that produced the result. This implies new workflows, in particular in peer-reviews. Existing journals have been slow to adapt: source codes are rarely requested and are hardly ever actually executed to check that they produce the results advertised in the article.
ReScience is a peer-reviewed journal that targets computational research and encourages the explicit replication of already published research, promoting new and open-source implementations in order to ensure that the original research can be replicated from its description. To achieve this goal, the whole publishing chain is radically different from other traditional scientific journals. ReScience resides on GitHub where each new implementation of a computational study is made available together with comments, explanations, and software tests.
More: https://www.labri.fr/perso/nrougier/papers/10.7717.peerj-cs.142.pdf