Towards Bridging the FL Performance-Explainability Trade-Off: A
Trustworthy 6G RAN Slicing Use-Case
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12903v1
- Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2023 15:51:06 GMT
- Title: Towards Bridging the FL Performance-Explainability Trade-Off: A
Trustworthy 6G RAN Slicing Use-Case
- Authors: Swastika Roy, Hatim Chergui, Christos Verikoukis
- Abstract summary: 6G network slicing requires highly performing AI models for efficient resource allocation and explainable decision-making.
This paper presents a novel explanation-guided in-hoc federated learning (FL) approach.
We quantitatively validate the faithfulness of the explanations via the so-called attribution-based confidence metric.
- Score: 0.5156484100374059
- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Abstract: In the context of sixth-generation (6G) networks, where diverse network
slices coexist, the adoption of AI-driven zero-touch management and
orchestration (MANO) becomes crucial. However, ensuring the trustworthiness of
AI black-boxes in real deployments is challenging. Explainable AI (XAI) tools
can play a vital role in establishing transparency among the stakeholders in
the slicing ecosystem. But there is a trade-off between AI performance and
explainability, posing a dilemma for trustworthy 6G network slicing because the
stakeholders require both highly performing AI models for efficient resource
allocation and explainable decision-making to ensure fairness, accountability,
and compliance. To balance this trade off and inspired by the closed loop
automation and XAI methodologies, this paper presents a novel
explanation-guided in-hoc federated learning (FL) approach where a constrained
resource allocation model and an explainer exchange -- in a closed loop (CL)
fashion -- soft attributions of the features as well as inference predictions
to achieve a transparent 6G network slicing resource management in a RAN-Edge
setup under non-independent identically distributed (non-IID) datasets. In
particular, we quantitatively validate the faithfulness of the explanations via
the so-called attribution-based confidence metric that is included as a
constraint to guide the overall training process in the run-time FL
optimization task. In this respect, Integrated-Gradient (IG) as well as Input
$\times$ Gradient and SHAP are used to generate the attributions for our
proposed in-hoc scheme, wherefore simulation results under different methods
confirm its success in tackling the performance-explainability trade-off and
its superiority over the unconstrained Integrated-Gradient post-hoc FL
baseline.
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