A Systematic Literature Review on Explainability for Machine/Deep Learning-based Software Engineering Research

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14617v1
• Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 03:20:40 GMT
• Title: A Systematic Literature Review on Explainability for Machine/Deep Learning-based Software Engineering Research
• Authors: Sicong Cao, Xiaobing Sun, Ratnadira Widyasari, David Lo, Xiaoxue Wu, Lili Bo, Jiale Zhang, Bin Li, Wei Liu, Di Wu, Yixin Chen
• Abstract summary: This paper presents a systematic literature review of approaches that aim to improve the explainability of AI models within the context of Software Engineering. We aim to summarize the SE tasks where XAI techniques have shown success to date; (2) classify and analyze different XAI techniques; and (3) investigate existing evaluation approaches.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The remarkable achievements of Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms, particularly in Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL), have fueled their extensive deployment across multiple sectors, including Software Engineering (SE). However, due to their black-box nature, these promising AI-driven SE models are still far from being deployed in practice. This lack of explainability poses unwanted risks for their applications in critical tasks, such as vulnerability detection, where decision-making transparency is of paramount importance. This paper endeavors to elucidate this interdisciplinary domain by presenting a systematic literature review of approaches that aim to improve the explainability of AI models within the context of SE. The review canvasses work appearing in the most prominent SE & AI conferences and journals, and spans 63 papers across 21 unique SE tasks. Based on three key Research Questions (RQs), we aim to (1) summarize the SE tasks where XAI techniques have shown success to date; (2) classify and analyze different XAI techniques; and (3) investigate existing evaluation approaches. Based on our findings, we identified a set of challenges remaining to be addressed in existing studies, together with a roadmap highlighting potential opportunities we deemed appropriate and important for future work.

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