Local Concept Embeddings for Analysis of Concept Distributions in DNN Feature Spaces

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.14435v2
• Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 12:48:38 GMT
• Title: Local Concept Embeddings for Analysis of Concept Distributions in DNN Feature Spaces
• Authors: Georgii Mikriukov, Gesina Schwalbe, Korinna Bade,
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel concept analysis framework for deep neural networks (DNNs) Instead of optimizing a single global concept vector on the complete dataset, it generates a local concept embedding (LoCE) vector for each individual sample. Despite its context sensitivity, our method's concept segmentation performance is competitive to global baselines.
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• Abstract: Insights into the learned latent representations are imperative for verifying deep neural networks (DNNs) in critical computer vision (CV) tasks. Therefore, state-of-the-art supervised Concept-based eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (C-XAI) methods associate user-defined concepts like ``car'' each with a single vector in the DNN latent space (concept embedding vector). In the case of concept segmentation, these linearly separate between activation map pixels belonging to a concept and those belonging to background. Existing methods for concept segmentation, however, fall short of capturing sub-concepts (e.g., ``proximate car'' and ``distant car''), and concept overlap (e.g., between ``bus'' and ``truck''). In other words, they do not capture the full distribution of concept representatives in latent space. For the first time, this work shows that these simplifications are frequently broken and that distribution information can be particularly useful for understanding DNN-learned notions of sub-concepts, concept confusion, and concept outliers. To allow exploration of learned concept distributions, we propose a novel local concept analysis framework. Instead of optimizing a single global concept vector on the complete dataset, it generates a local concept embedding (LoCE) vector for each individual sample. We use the distribution formed by LoCEs to explore the latent concept distribution by fitting Gaussian mixture models (GMMs), hierarchical clustering, and concept-level information retrieval and outlier detection. Despite its context sensitivity, our method's concept segmentation performance is competitive to global baselines. Analysis results are obtained on two datasets and five diverse vision DNN architectures, including vision transformers (ViTs).

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