2025
X-Hacking: The Threat of Misguided AutoML
Rahul Sharma, Sumantrak Mukherjee, Andrea Sipka, Eyke Hüllermeier, Sebastian Josef Vollmer, Sergey Redyuk +1
ICML 2025poster
Explainable AI (XAI) and interpretable machine learning methods help to build trust in model predictions and derived insights, yet also present a perverse incentive for analysts to manipulate XAI metrics to support pre-specified conclusions. This paper introduces the concept of X-hacking, a form of…