Can We Trust Explainable AI Methods on ASR? An Evaluation on Phoneme Recognition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18011v1
• Date: Mon, 29 May 2023 11:04:13 GMT
• Title: Can We Trust Explainable AI Methods on ASR? An Evaluation on Phoneme Recognition
• Authors: Xiaoliang Wu, Peter Bell, Ajitha Rajan
• Abstract summary: Interest in using XAI techniques to explain deep learning-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) is emerging. We adapt a state-of-the-art XAI technique from the image classification domain, Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations (LIME) to a model trained for a TIMIT-based phoneme recognition task. We find a variant of LIME based on time partitioned audio segments, that we propose in this paper, produces the most reliable explanations.
• Score: 9.810810252231812
• License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Abstract: Explainable AI (XAI) techniques have been widely used to help explain and understand the output of deep learning models in fields such as image classification and Natural Language Processing. Interest in using XAI techniques to explain deep learning-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) is emerging. but there is not enough evidence on whether these explanations can be trusted. To address this, we adapt a state-of-the-art XAI technique from the image classification domain, Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations (LIME), to a model trained for a TIMIT-based phoneme recognition task. This simple task provides a controlled setting for evaluation while also providing expert annotated ground truth to assess the quality of explanations. We find a variant of LIME based on time partitioned audio segments, that we propose in this paper, produces the most reliable explanations, containing the ground truth 96% of the time in its top three audio segments.

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