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Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations

LIME

378 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

Introduced by Marco Tulio Ribeiro et al. in "Why Should I Trust You?": Explaining the Predictions of Any Classifier

archive 2025-07-28 Description, source and code snippet are the archive's method entry.

LIME, or Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations, is an algorithm that can explain the predictions of any classifier or regressor in a faithful way, by approximating it locally with an interpretable model. It modifies a single data sample by tweaking the feature values and observes the resulting impact on the output. It performs the role of an "explainer" to explain predictions from each data sample. The output of LIME is a set of explanations representing the contribution of each feature to a prediction for a single sample, which is a form of local interpretability.

Interpretable models in LIME can be, for instance, linear regression or decision trees, which are trained on small perturbations (e.g. adding noise, removing words, hiding parts of the image) of the original model to provide a good local approximation.

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Papers archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

20 shown of 228 tasks the archive attaches to papers tagged with this method, by distinct papers. A task without a page in the catalog is plain text.

TaskPapers
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)60
Explainable artificial intelligence51
Feature Importance49
Decision Making44
BIG-bench Machine Learning29
Image Classification24
image-classification24
counterfactual22
Classification17
regression15
Diagnostic14
Interpretable Machine Learning14
Text Classification14
text-classification14
Fairness11
feature selection11
Deep Learning10
Prediction10
model10
Management9

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with LIME: 2016 to 2025, peak 75 75 0 2016: 4 papers 2016 2017: 2 papers 2017 2018: 13 papers 2018 2019: 22 papers 2019 2020: 51 papers 2020 2021: 57 papers 2021 2022: 45 papers 2022 2023: 62 papers 2023 2024: 75 papers 2024 2025: 47 papers 2025
Papers per year the archive tags with this method, by the paper's archive date (378 dated). Bars are counts, not a trend claim.

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Categories archive 2025-07-28

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