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TS-Insight: Visualizing Thompson Sampling for Verification and XAI

Created by
  • Haebom

Author

Parsa Vares, Eloi Durant, Jun Pang, Nicolas Medoc, Mohammad Ghoniem

Outline

We introduce TS-Insight, a tool for visually analyzing the internal decision-making mechanisms of Thompson Sampling (TS)-based algorithms. While TS is effective in balancing exploration and exploitation strategies in active learning, its probabilistic nature makes debugging and reliability difficult. TS-Insight provides verification, diagnosis, and explainability of exploration/exploitation dynamics through multiple plots that track the posterior distribution, evidence count, and sampling results for each arm, thereby enhancing reliability and enabling effective debugging and deployment in complex binary decision-making scenarios, especially in sensitive areas requiring interpretable decisions.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
Contributed to solving the black box problem of the TS algorithm
Visual understanding and verification of exploration/exploitation strategies
Improved reliability and increased interpretability in sensitive areas
Effective debugging and deployment support
Limitations:
TS-Insight's scope of application is limited to TS-based algorithms.
The complexity of visualization requires expert knowledge from the user.
Further research is needed on the applicability and efficiency of multidimensional decision-making problems.
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