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Stefan Haufe

5 accepted papers

2025

Correcting misinterpretations of additive models

NeurIPS 2025poster

Correct model interpretation in high-stakes settings is critical, yet both post-hoc feature attribution methods and so-called intrinsically interpretable models can systematically attribute false-positive importance to non-informative features such as suppressor variables. Specifically, both linear…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Minimizing False-Positive Attributions in Explanations of Non-Linear Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

Suppressor variables can influence model predictions without being dependent on the target outcome, and they pose a significant challenge for Explainable AI (XAI) methods. These variables may cause false-positive feature attributions, undermining the utility of explanations. Although effective remed…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2023

Theoretical Behavior of XAI Methods in the Presence of Suppressor Variables

ICML 2023poster

In recent years, the community of 'explainable artificial intelligence' (XAI) has created a vast body of methods to bridge a perceived gap between model 'complexity' and 'interpretability'. However, a concrete problem to be solved by XAI methods has not yet been formally stated. As a result, XAI met…

Cited by 12SourcePDFScholar
2021

Efficient hierarchical Bayesian inference for spatio-temporal regression models in neuroimaging

NeurIPS 2021poster

Several problems in neuroimaging and beyond require inference on the parameters of multi-task sparse hierarchical regression models. Examples include M/EEG inverse problems, neural encoding models for task-based fMRI analyses, and climate science. In these domains, both the model parameters to be in…

2019

A state-space model for inferring effective connectivity of latent neural dynamics from simultaneous EEG/fMRI

NeurIPS 2019poster

Inferring effective connectivity between spatially segregated brain regions is important for understanding human brain dynamics in health and disease. Non-invasive neuroimaging modalities, such as electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), are often used to make m…