Towards Better Model Understanding with Path-Sufficient Explanations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2109.06181v1
• Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 16:06:10 GMT
• Title: Towards Better Model Understanding with Path-Sufficient Explanations
• Authors: Ronny Luss, Amit Dhurandhar
• Abstract summary: Path-Sufficient Explanations Method (PSEM) is a sequence of sufficient explanations for a given input of strictly decreasing size. PSEM can be thought to trace the local boundary of the model in a smooth manner, thus providing better intuition about the local model behavior for the specific input. A user study depicts the strength of the method in communicating the local behavior, where (many) users are able to correctly determine the prediction made by a model.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Feature based local attribution methods are amongst the most prevalent in explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) literature. Going beyond standard correlation, recently, methods have been proposed that highlight what should be minimally sufficient to justify the classification of an input (viz. pertinent positives). While minimal sufficiency is an attractive property, the resulting explanations are often too sparse for a human to understand and evaluate the local behavior of the model, thus making it difficult to judge its overall quality. To overcome these limitations, we propose a novel method called Path-Sufficient Explanations Method (PSEM) that outputs a sequence of sufficient explanations for a given input of strictly decreasing size (or value) -- from original input to a minimally sufficient explanation -- which can be thought to trace the local boundary of the model in a smooth manner, thus providing better intuition about the local model behavior for the specific input. We validate these claims, both qualitatively and quantitatively, with experiments that show the benefit of PSEM across all three modalities (image, tabular and text). A user study depicts the strength of the method in communicating the local behavior, where (many) users are able to correctly determine the prediction made by a model.

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