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About this paper
Raheleh Biglari, Joachim Denil
The Decision Oriented Technique (DOTechnique) provides a method for identifying model validity regions by assessing decision consistency between an approximated model and a high-fidelity model, particularly when explicit validity frames are unknown. Applied to a highway lane change scenario, the technique successfully delineated the operational boundaries where a simplified model's decisions aligned with those of a complex model, enhancing model trustworthiness for decision-making.
Key insights
- Model validity can be pragmatically established by confirming decision consistency between a model under test and a high-validity reference, even if their intermediate outputs differ.
- The operational validity regions for models, especially surrogates, can be discovered dynamically through focused search without relying on prior explicit validity frames.
- Leveraging domain knowledge and symbolic reasoning significantly enhances the efficiency of validity assessment by restricting the search to physically meaningful input configurations.
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