ATVA 2025
Mon 27 - Fri 31 October 2025 Bengaluru, India

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Thu 30 Oct 2025 11:30 - 12:00 at R102 - Learning Chair(s): Kittiphon Phalakarn

Creating meaningful interpretations for black-box machine learning models involves balancing two often conflicting objectives: ac- curacy and explainability. Exploring the trade-off between these objec- tives is essential for developing trustworthy interpretations. While many techniques for multi-objective interpretation synthesis have been devel- oped, they typically lack formal guarantees on the Pareto-optimality of the results. Methods that do provide such guarantees, on the other hand, often face severe scalability limitations when exploring the Pareto- optimal space. To address this, we develop a framework based on local optimality guarantees that enables more scalable synthesis of interpre- tations. Specifically, we consider the problem of synthesizing a set of Pareto-optimal interpretations with local optimality guarantees, within the immediate neighborhood of each solution. Our approach begins with a multi-objective learning or search technique, such as Multi-Objective Monte Carlo Tree Search, to generate a best-effort set of Pareto-optimal solutions with respect to accuracy and explainability. We then verify local optimality for each candidate as a Boolean satisfiability problem, which we solve using a SAT solver. We demonstrate the efficacy of our approach on a set of benchmarks, comparing it against previous methods for exploring the Pareto-optimal front of interpretations. In particular, we show that our approach yields interpretations that closely match those synthesized by methods offering global guarantees.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Thu 30 Oct

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11:00 - 12:30
LearningATVA Papers at R102
Chair(s): Kittiphon Phalakarn National Institute of Informatics
11:00
30m
Paper
Inductive Generalization in Reinforcement Learning from Specifications
ATVA Papers
Vignesh Subramanian , Rohit Kushwah , Subhajit Roy IIT Kanpur, Suguman Bansal Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
11:30
30m
Paper
Locally Pareto-Optimal Interpretations for Black-Box Machine Learning Models
ATVA Papers
Aniruddha Joshi UC Berkeley, Supratik Chakraborty IIT Bombay, S. Akshay , Shetal Shah IIT Bombay, India, Hazem Torfah Chalmers University of Technology, Sanjit Seshia UC Berkeley
12:00
30m
Paper
Solution-aware vs global ReLU selection: partial MILP strikes back for DNN verification
ATVA Papers
Yuke Liao CNRS@CREATE, Singapore, Blaise Genest IPAL - CNRS - CNRS@CREATE, Kuldeep S. Meel National University of Singapore, Shaan Aryaman NYU
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