A Generic and Model-Agnostic Exemplar Synthetization Framework for Explainable AI

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.03896v3
• Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2020 17:05:45 GMT
• Title: A Generic and Model-Agnostic Exemplar Synthetization Framework for Explainable AI
• Authors: Antonio Barbalau, Adrian Cosma, Radu Tudor Ionescu and Marius Popescu
• Abstract summary: We focus on explainable AI and propose a novel generic and model-agnostic framework for synthesizing input exemplars. We use a generative model, which acts as a prior for generating data, and traverse its latent space using a novel evolutionary strategy. Our framework is model-agnostic, in the sense that the machine learning model that we aim to explain is a black-box.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: With the growing complexity of deep learning methods adopted in practical applications, there is an increasing and stringent need to explain and interpret the decisions of such methods. In this work, we focus on explainable AI and propose a novel generic and model-agnostic framework for synthesizing input exemplars that maximize a desired response from a machine learning model. To this end, we use a generative model, which acts as a prior for generating data, and traverse its latent space using a novel evolutionary strategy with momentum updates. Our framework is generic because (i) it can employ any underlying generator, e.g. Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) or Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), and (ii) it can be applied to any input data, e.g. images, text samples or tabular data. Since we use a zero-order optimization method, our framework is model-agnostic, in the sense that the machine learning model that we aim to explain is a black-box. We stress out that our novel framework does not require access or knowledge of the internal structure or the training data of the black-box model. We conduct experiments with two generative models, VAEs and GANs, and synthesize exemplars for various data formats, image, text and tabular, demonstrating that our framework is generic. We also employ our prototype synthetization framework on various black-box models, for which we only know the input and the output formats, showing that it is model-agnostic. Moreover, we compare our framework (available at https://github.com/antoniobarbalau/exemplar) with a model-dependent approach based on gradient descent, proving that our framework obtains equally-good exemplars in a shorter computational time.

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