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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…