On Model Interpretability: Good Explanations Should Predict Related Situations

a_karvonen · x · 2026-08-22

Proposed a criterion for model explanation quality: good explanations should help predict behaviors in related situations. The author built an evaluation set based on real-world behaviors and questioned the effectiveness of current interpretability tools in meeting this standard.

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