Paper ID: 2202.03971

Computing Rule-Based Explanations of Machine Learning Classifiers using Knowledge Graphs

Edmund Dervakos, Orfeas Menis-Mastromichalakis, Alexandros Chortaras, Giorgos Stamou

The use of symbolic knowledge representation and reasoning as a way to resolve the lack of transparency of machine learning classifiers is a research area that lately attracts many researchers. In this work, we use knowledge graphs as the underlying framework providing the terminology for representing explanations for the operation of a machine learning classifier. In particular, given a description of the application domain of the classifier in the form of a knowledge graph, we introduce a novel method for extracting and representing black-box explanations of its operation, in the form of first-order logic rules expressed in the terminology of the knowledge graph.

Submitted: Feb 8, 2022