arxivcs.AI2026-07-10
ConceptSMILE: Auditing the Trustworthiness of Concept-Based Explainable AI
Mohadeseh Mollapour, Koorosh Aslansefat, Zeinab Dehghani, Bhupesh Kumar Mishra, Tejal Shah, Zhibao Mian
Concept-based explainable artificial intelligence (AI) can make model reasoning more human-understandable, but concept-level outputs are not automatically trustworthy. We introduce ConceptSMILE, a model-agnostic perturbation-based auditing framework for evaluating the reliability…