Ilir Jusufi

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2 Papers

27.9LGDec 22, 2022
The State of the Art in Enhancing Trust in Machine Learning Models with the Use of Visualizations

A. Chatzimparmpas, R. Martins, I. Jusufi et al.

Machine learning (ML) models are nowadays used in complex applications in various domains, such as medicine, bioinformatics, and other sciences. Due to their black box nature, however, it may sometimes be hard to understand and trust the results they provide. This has increased the demand for reliable visualization tools related to enhancing trust in ML models, which has become a prominent topic of research in the visualization community over the past decades. To provide an overview and present the frontiers of current research on the topic, we present a State-of-the-Art Report (STAR) on enhancing trust in ML models with the use of interactive visualization. We define and describe the background of the topic, introduce a categorization for visualization techniques that aim to accomplish this goal, and discuss insights and opportunities for future research directions. Among our contributions is a categorization of trust against different facets of interactive ML, expanded and improved from previous research. Our results are investigated from different analytical perspectives: (a) providing a statistical overview, (b) summarizing key findings, (c) performing topic analyses, and (d) exploring the data sets used in the individual papers, all with the support of an interactive web-based survey browser. We intend this survey to be beneficial for visualization researchers whose interests involve making ML models more trustworthy, as well as researchers and practitioners from other disciplines in their search for effective visualization techniques suitable for solving their tasks with confidence and conveying meaning to their data.

1.2DLAug 31, 2024
Simbanex: Similarity-based Exploration of IEEE VIS Publications

Daniel Witschard, Ilir Jusufi, Andreas Kerren

Embeddings are powerful tools for transforming complex and unstructured data into numeric formats suitable for computational analysis tasks. In this work, we use multiple embeddings for similarity calculations to be applied in bibliometrics and scientometrics. We build a multivariate network (MVN) from a large set of scientific publications and explore an aspect-driven analysis approach to reveal similarity patterns in the given publication data. By dividing our MVN into separately embeddable aspects, we are able to obtain a flexible vector representation which we use as input to a novel method of similarity-based clustering. Based on these preprocessing steps, we developed a visual analytics application, called Simbanex, that has been designed for the interactive visual exploration of similarity patterns within the underlying publications.