Accurate Explanation Model for Image Classifiers using Class Association Embedding

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.07961v1
• Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 07:41:00 GMT
• Title: Accurate Explanation Model for Image Classifiers using Class Association Embedding
• Authors: Ruitao Xie, Jingbang Chen, Limai Jiang, Rui Xiao, Yi Pan, Yunpeng Cai,
• Abstract summary: We propose a generative explanation model that combines the advantages of global and local knowledge. Class association embedding (CAE) encodes each sample into a pair of separated class-associated and individual codes. Building-block coherency feature extraction algorithm is proposed that efficiently separates class-associated features from individual ones.
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• Abstract: Image classification is a primary task in data analysis where explainable models are crucially demanded in various applications. Although amounts of methods have been proposed to obtain explainable knowledge from the black-box classifiers, these approaches lack the efficiency of extracting global knowledge regarding the classification task, thus is vulnerable to local traps and often leads to poor accuracy. In this study, we propose a generative explanation model that combines the advantages of global and local knowledge for explaining image classifiers. We develop a representation learning method called class association embedding (CAE), which encodes each sample into a pair of separated class-associated and individual codes. Recombining the individual code of a given sample with altered class-associated code leads to a synthetic real-looking sample with preserved individual characters but modified class-associated features and possibly flipped class assignments. A building-block coherency feature extraction algorithm is proposed that efficiently separates class-associated features from individual ones. The extracted feature space forms a low-dimensional manifold that visualizes the classification decision patterns. Explanation on each individual sample can be then achieved in a counter-factual generation manner which continuously modifies the sample in one direction, by shifting its class-associated code along a guided path, until its classification outcome is changed. We compare our method with state-of-the-art ones on explaining image classification tasks in the form of saliency maps, demonstrating that our method achieves higher accuracies. The code is available at https://github.com/xrt11/XAI-CODE.

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