Enjoy the Salience: Towards Better Transformer-based Faithful Explanations with Word Salience

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2108.13759v1
• Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 11:21:30 GMT
• Title: Enjoy the Salience: Towards Better Transformer-based Faithful Explanations with Word Salience
• Authors: George Chrysostomou and Nikolaos Aletras
• Abstract summary: We propose an auxiliary loss function for guiding the multi-head attention mechanism during training to be close to salient information extracted using TextRank. Experiments for explanation faithfulness across five datasets, show that models trained with SaLoss consistently provide more faithful explanations. We further show that the latter result in higher predictive performance in downstream tasks.
• Score: 9.147707153504117
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Pretrained transformer-based models such as BERT have demonstrated state-of-the-art predictive performance when adapted into a range of natural language processing tasks. An open problem is how to improve the faithfulness of explanations (rationales) for the predictions of these models. In this paper, we hypothesize that salient information extracted a priori from the training data can complement the task-specific information learned by the model during fine-tuning on a downstream task. In this way, we aim to help BERT not to forget assigning importance to informative input tokens when making predictions by proposing SaLoss; an auxiliary loss function for guiding the multi-head attention mechanism during training to be close to salient information extracted a priori using TextRank. Experiments for explanation faithfulness across five datasets, show that models trained with SaLoss consistently provide more faithful explanations across four different feature attribution methods compared to vanilla BERT. Using the rationales extracted from vanilla BERT and SaLoss models to train inherently faithful classifiers, we further show that the latter result in higher predictive performance in downstream tasks.

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