Can we Constrain Concept Bottleneck Models to Learn Semantically
Meaningful Input Features?
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00912v1
- Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2024 10:18:43 GMT
- Title: Can we Constrain Concept Bottleneck Models to Learn Semantically
Meaningful Input Features?
- Authors: Jack Furby, Daniel Cunnington, Dave Braines, Alun Preece
- Abstract summary: Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) are considered inherently interpretable because they first predict a set of human-defined concepts.
For inherent interpretability to be fully realised, we need to guarantee concepts are predicted based on semantically mapped input features.
We demonstrate that CBMs can learn concept representations with semantic mapping to input features by removing problematic concept correlations.
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- Abstract: Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) are considered inherently interpretable
because they first predict a set of human-defined concepts before using these
concepts to predict the output of a downstream task. For inherent
interpretability to be fully realised, and ensure trust in a model's output, we
need to guarantee concepts are predicted based on semantically mapped input
features. For example, one might expect the pixels representing a broken bone
in an image to be used for the prediction of a fracture. However, current
literature indicates this is not the case, as concept predictions are often
mapped to irrelevant input features. We hypothesise that this occurs when
concept annotations are inaccurate or how input features should relate to
concepts is unclear. In general, the effect of dataset labelling on concept
representations in CBMs remains an understudied area. Therefore, in this paper,
we examine how CBMs learn concepts from datasets with fine-grained concept
annotations. We demonstrate that CBMs can learn concept representations with
semantic mapping to input features by removing problematic concept
correlations, such as two concepts always appearing together. To support our
evaluation, we introduce a new synthetic image dataset based on a playing cards
domain, which we hope will serve as a benchmark for future CBM research. For
validation, we provide empirical evidence on a real-world dataset of chest
X-rays, to demonstrate semantically meaningful concepts can be learned in
real-world applications.
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