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Privacy Preservation with Noise in Explainable AI

2025· article· W4416962054 on OpenAlexafffund
Sonal Allana, Rozita Dara

Bibliographic record

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Typearticle
Language
FieldComputer Science
TopicExplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Guelph
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsTransparency (behavior)BottleneckTrustworthinessProcess (computing)InferenceInformation privacyCloud computing

Abstract

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Black-box Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems have achieved state-of-the-art accuracy in many problem domains in recent years. However, the lack of transparency of these systems is a bottleneck in their usage in high-risk applications which make automated decisions on individuals. Trustworthy AI proposes principles such as reliability, validity, privacy, fairness, and explainability among others, to mitigate risks from large-scale AI deployments in such domains. Explainable AI (XAI) is a technique of providing insights into the decision-making process of black-box systems thus enabling transparency. It plays a crucial role in communicating the rationale of automated decisions to relevant stakeholders. Though explainability is a highly desirable requirement, recent research has determined that explanations can introduce new privacy risks in AI systems. Researchers have demonstrated different types of privacy attacks on XAI deployed in production and cloud systems. Despite these risks, currently there is a lack of research into defenses for known privacy attacks in XAI. In this article, we contribute to this gap by proposing a defense mechanism for attribute inference attack on feature-based XAI. We empirically evaluate a well-known privacy preservation technique, namely, additive noise, and show its impact on privacy, explainability and utility. Our findings indicate that additive noise enables privacy while achieving faithful explanations and without compromising model utility.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.013
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.091
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score0.071

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0130.091
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.002
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.006
Scholarly communication0.0050.008
Open science0.0020.006
Research integrity0.0020.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.024
GPT teacher head0.291
Teacher spread0.267 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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