K. Djoumessi

Beyond Predictive Fairness: Quantifying Attribution Consistency Across Demographic Groups in Diabetic Retinopathy Screening

The Explanation Consistency Score (ECS) is introduced, a fairness-aware metric based on Jensen-Shannon divergence that quantifies the similarity of attribution maps across subgroups that suggests predictive fairness and explanation consistency capture complementary dimensions of model behavior, motivating fairness evaluations that extend beyond predictive performance.