RankSHAP: a Gold Standard Feature Attribution Method for the Ranking Task

arXiv:2405.01848v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Several works propose various post-hoc, model-agnostic explanations for the task of ranking, i.e. the task of ordering a set of documents, via feature attribution methods. However, these attributions are seen to weakly correlate and sometimes contradict each other. In classification/regression, several works focus on \emph{axiomatic characterization} of feature attribution methods, showing that a certain method uniquely satisfies a set of desirable properties. However, no such efforts have been taken in the space of feature attributions …

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