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Zhongyu Niu

3 accepted papers

2025

Adversarial Cooperative Rationalization: The Risk of Spurious Correlations in Even Clean Datasets

ICML 2025poster

This study investigates the self-rationalization framework constructed with a cooperative game, where a generator initially extracts the most informative segment from raw input, and a subsequent predictor utilizes the selected subset for its input. The generator and predictor are trained collaborati…

2025

Breaking Free from MMI: A New Frontier in Rationalization by Probing Input Utilization

ICLR 2025poster

Extracting a small subset of crucial rationales from the full input is a key problem in explainability research. The most widely used fundamental criterion for rationale extraction is the maximum mutual information (MMI) criterion. In this paper, we first demonstrate that MMI suffers from diminishin…

2024

Is the MMI Criterion Necessary for Interpretability? Degenerating Non-causal Features to Plain Noise for Self-Rationalization

NeurIPS 2024poster

An important line of research in the field of explainability is to extract a small subset of crucial rationales from the full input. The most widely used criterion for rationale extraction is the maximum mutual information (MMI) criterion. However, in certain datasets, there are spurious features no…