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Eoin M. Kenny

8 accepted papers

2026

CAMP: Coherent Alignment of Multimodal Prototypes for Explainable Complementary Learning

ICML 2026poster

Most multimodal learning assumes redundant views (such as image–caption pairs), yet many applications require combining complementary modalities that provide distinct evidence (such as an X-ray and medical history). We term this setting *Complementary Multimodal Classification* (CMC). In CMC, existi…

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2023

Advancing Post-Hoc Case-Based Explanation with Feature Highlighting

IJCAI 2023poster

Explainable AI (XAI) has been proposed as a valuable tool to assist in downstream tasks involving human-AI collaboration. Perhaps the most psychologically valid XAI techniques are case-based approaches which display "whole" exemplars to explain the predictions of black-box AI systems. However, for s…

2023

Human-Guided Complexity-Controlled Abstractions

NeurIPS 2023poster

Neural networks often learn task-specific latent representations that fail to generalize to novel settings or tasks. Conversely, humans learn discrete representations (i.e., concepts or words) at a variety of abstraction levels (e.g., "bird" vs. "sparrow'") and use the appropriate abstraction based…

2023

The Utility of “Even if” Semifactual Explanation to Optimise Positive Outcomes

NeurIPS 2023poster

When users receive either a positive or negative outcome from an automated system, Explainable AI (XAI) has almost exclusively focused on how to mutate negative outcomes into positive ones by crossing a decision boundary using counterfactuals (e.g., *"If you earn 2k more, we will accept your loan ap…

2023

Towards Interpretable Deep Reinforcement Learning with Human-Friendly Prototypes

ICLR 2023top-25%

Despite recent success of deep learning models in research settings, their application in sensitive domains remains limited because of their opaque decision-making processes. Taking to this challenge, people have proposed various eXplainable AI (XAI) techniques designed to calibrate trust and unders…

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2021

If Only We Had Better Counterfactual Explanations: Five Key Deficits to Rectify in the Evaluation of Counterfactual XAI Techniques

IJCAI 2021poster

In recent years, there has been an explosion of AI research on counterfactual explanations as a solution to the problem of eXplainable AI (XAI). These explanations seem to offer technical, psychological and legal benefits over other explanation techniques. We survey 100 distinct counterfactual expl…

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2021

On Generating Plausible Counterfactual and Semi-Factual Explanations for Deep Learning

AAAI 2021technical

There is a growing concern that the recent progress made in AI, especially regarding the predictive competence of deep learning models, will be undermined by a failure to properly explain their operation and outputs. In response to this disquiet, counterfactual explanations have become very popular…

2020

Bayesian Case-Exclusion and Personalized Explanations for Sustainable Dairy Farming (Extended Abstract)

IJCAI 2020poster

Smart agriculture (SmartAg) has emerged as a rich domain for AI-driven decision support systems (DSS); however, it is often challenged by user-adoption issues. This paper reports a case-based reasoning (CBR) system, PBI-CBR, that predicts grass growth for dairy farmers, that combines predictive accu…

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