Symbolic AI for XAI: Evaluating LFIT Inductive Programming for Fair and Explainable Automatic Recruitment

Alfonso Ortega, Julian Fierrez, Aythami Morales, Zilong Wang, Tony Ribeiro; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops, 2021, pp. 78-87

Abstract


Machine learning methods are growing in relevance for biometrics and personal information processing in domains such as forensics, e health, recruitment, and e learning. In these domains, white box (human readable) explanations of systems built on machine learning methods can become crucial. Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) is a subfield of symbolic AI aimed to automatically learn declarative theories about the process of data. Learning from Interpretation Transition (LFIT) is an ILP technique that can learn a propositional logic theory equivalent to a given black box system (under certain conditions). The present work takes a first step to a general methodology to incorporate accurate declarative explanations to classic machine learning by checking the viability of LFIT in a specific AI application scenario: fair recruitment based on an automatic tool generated with machine learning methods for ranking Curricula Vitae that incorporates soft biometric information (gender and ethnicity). We show the expressiveness of LFIT for this specific problem and propose a scheme that can be applicable to other domains.

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[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Ortega_2021_WACV, author = {Ortega, Alfonso and Fierrez, Julian and Morales, Aythami and Wang, Zilong and Ribeiro, Tony}, title = {Symbolic AI for XAI: Evaluating LFIT Inductive Programming for Fair and Explainable Automatic Recruitment}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {January}, year = {2021}, pages = {78-87} }