Improving the Evaluation and Actionability of Explanation Methods for Multivariate Time Series Classification
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12507v1
- Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 11:18:46 GMT
- Title: Improving the Evaluation and Actionability of Explanation Methods for Multivariate Time Series Classification
- Authors: Davide Italo Serramazza, Thach Le Nguyen, Georgiana Ifrim,
- Abstract summary: We focus on analyzing InterpretTime, a recent evaluation methodology for attribution methods applied to MTSC.
We reproduce the original paper results, showcase some significant weaknesses of the methodology and propose ideas to improve both its accuracy and efficiency.
We find that perturbation-based methods such as SHAP and Feature Ablation work well across a set of datasets, classifiers and tasks and outperform gradient-based methods.
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- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
- Abstract: Explanation for Multivariate Time Series Classification (MTSC) is an important topic that is under explored. There are very few quantitative evaluation methodologies and even fewer examples of actionable explanation, where the explanation methods are shown to objectively improve specific computational tasks on time series data. In this paper we focus on analyzing InterpretTime, a recent evaluation methodology for attribution methods applied to MTSC. We reproduce the original paper results, showcase some significant weaknesses of the methodology and propose ideas to improve both its accuracy and efficiency. Unlike related work, we go beyond evaluation and also showcase the actionability of the produced explainer ranking, by using the best attribution methods for the task of channel selection in MTSC. We find that perturbation-based methods such as SHAP and Feature Ablation work well across a set of datasets, classifiers and tasks and outperform gradient-based methods. We apply the best ranked explainers to channel selection for MTSC and show significant data size reduction and improved classifier accuracy.
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