11–13 May 2026
Hotel Zuiderduin
Europe/Amsterdam timezone

Explainable AI (XAI) in Astronomy

12 May 2026, 14:15
15m
Lamoraalzaal (Hotel Zuiderduin)

Lamoraalzaal

Hotel Zuiderduin

Zeeweg 52, 1931 VL, Egmond aan Zee
Contributed Talk Data science & Opportunities of LLM’s for Astronomical research Splinter: Data science & Opportunities of LLM’s for Astronomical research

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Patrick Bos

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With the boom of applications of deep neural networks in (astronomical) research, we have grown an urgent need to crack open our own black boxes, lest our reviewers start asking us difficult questions we cannot answer. Enter the field of "explainable AI" (XAI), in which methods to solve this issue are developed and studied. I will give a short introduction into XAI in general, and present our specific method called Distance Explainer, which "explains" which parts of your data actually drive (dis)similarity in a learned embedding space. I'm curious whether you are working on something where this could be useful. If so, let's talk.

Talk category Splinter 6: Data science

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