On the Post-hoc Explainability of Deep Echo State Networks for Time Series Forecasting, Image and Video Classification

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2102.08634v1
• Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 08:56:33 GMT
• Title: On the Post-hoc Explainability of Deep Echo State Networks for Time Series Forecasting, Image and Video Classification
• Authors: Alejandro Barredo Arrieta, Sergio Gil-Lopez, Ibai La\~na, Miren Nekane Bilbao, Javier Del Ser
• Abstract summary: echo state networks have attracted many stares through time, mainly due to the simplicity and computational efficiency of their learning algorithm. This work addresses this issue by conducting an explainability study of Echo State Networks when applied to learning tasks with time series, image and video data. Specifically, the study proposes three different techniques capable of eliciting understandable information about the knowledge grasped by these recurrent models.
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• Abstract: Since their inception, learning techniques under the Reservoir Computing paradigm have shown a great modeling capability for recurrent systems without the computing overheads required for other approaches. Among them, different flavors of echo state networks have attracted many stares through time, mainly due to the simplicity and computational efficiency of their learning algorithm. However, these advantages do not compensate for the fact that echo state networks remain as black-box models whose decisions cannot be easily explained to the general audience. This work addresses this issue by conducting an explainability study of Echo State Networks when applied to learning tasks with time series, image and video data. Specifically, the study proposes three different techniques capable of eliciting understandable information about the knowledge grasped by these recurrent models, namely, potential memory, temporal patterns and pixel absence effect. Potential memory addresses questions related to the effect of the reservoir size in the capability of the model to store temporal information, whereas temporal patterns unveils the recurrent relationships captured by the model over time. Finally, pixel absence effect attempts at evaluating the effect of the absence of a given pixel when the echo state network model is used for image and video classification. We showcase the benefits of our proposed suite of techniques over three different domains of applicability: time series modeling, image and, for the first time in the related literature, video classification. Our results reveal that the proposed techniques not only allow for a informed understanding of the way these models work, but also serve as diagnostic tools capable of detecting issues inherited from data (e.g. presence of hidden bias).

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