B-cos LM: Efficiently Transforming Pre-trained Language Models for Improved Explainability

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12992v1
• Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:13:08 GMT
• Title: B-cos LM: Efficiently Transforming Pre-trained Language Models for Improved Explainability
• Authors: Yifan Wang, Sukrut Rao, Ji-Ung Lee, Mayank Jobanputra, Vera Demberg,
• Abstract summary: Post-hoc explanation methods for black-box models often struggle with faithfulness and human interpretability. We introduce B-cos LMs, i.e., B-cos networks empowered for NLP tasks. Our approach directly transforms pre-trained language models into B-cos LMs by combining B-cos conversion and task fine-tuning.
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• Abstract: Post-hoc explanation methods for black-box models often struggle with faithfulness and human interpretability due to the lack of explainability in current neural models. Meanwhile, B-cos networks have been introduced to improve model explainability through architectural and computational adaptations, but their application has so far been limited to computer vision models and their associated training pipelines. In this work, we introduce B-cos LMs, i.e., B-cos networks empowered for NLP tasks. Our approach directly transforms pre-trained language models into B-cos LMs by combining B-cos conversion and task fine-tuning, improving efficiency compared to previous B-cos methods. Our automatic and human evaluation results demonstrate that B-cos LMs produce more faithful and human interpretable explanations than post hoc methods, while maintaining task performance comparable to conventional fine-tuning. Our in-depth analysis explores how B-cos LMs differ from conventionally fine-tuned models in their learning processes and explanation patterns. Finally, we provide practical guidelines for effectively building B-cos LMs based on our findings. Our code is available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/bcos_lm.

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