Benchmarking Deep Learning Interpretability in Time Series Predictions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.13924v1
• Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 22:07:53 GMT
• Title: Benchmarking Deep Learning Interpretability in Time Series Predictions
• Authors: Aya Abdelsalam Ismail, Mohamed Gunady, H\'ector Corrada Bravo, and Soheil Feizi
• Abstract summary: Saliency methods are used extensively to highlight the importance of input features in model predictions. We set out to extensively compare the performance of various saliency-based interpretability methods across diverse neural architectures.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Saliency methods are used extensively to highlight the importance of input features in model predictions. These methods are mostly used in vision and language tasks, and their applications to time series data is relatively unexplored. In this paper, we set out to extensively compare the performance of various saliency-based interpretability methods across diverse neural architectures, including Recurrent Neural Network, Temporal Convolutional Networks, and Transformers in a new benchmark of synthetic time series data. We propose and report multiple metrics to empirically evaluate the performance of saliency methods for detecting feature importance over time using both precision (i.e., whether identified features contain meaningful signals) and recall (i.e., the number of features with signal identified as important). Through several experiments, we show that (i) in general, network architectures and saliency methods fail to reliably and accurately identify feature importance over time in time series data, (ii) this failure is mainly due to the conflation of time and feature domains, and (iii) the quality of saliency maps can be improved substantially by using our proposed two-step temporal saliency rescaling (TSR) approach that first calculates the importance of each time step before calculating the importance of each feature at a time step.

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