Can Multitask Learning Enhance Model Explainability?

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06966v1
• Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2025 12:24:48 GMT
• Title: Can Multitask Learning Enhance Model Explainability?
• Authors: Hiba Najjar, Bushra Alshbib, Andreas Dengel,
• Abstract summary: We show how modalities can be leveraged through multitask learning to intrinsically explain model behavior.<n>In particular, instead of additional inputs, we use certain modalities as additional targets to be predicted along with the main task.<n>The success of this approach relies on the rich information content of satellite data, which remains as input modalities.
• Score: 5.143097874851516
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Remote sensing provides satellite data in diverse types and formats. The usage of multimodal learning networks exploits this diversity to improve model performance, except that the complexity of such networks comes at the expense of their interpretability. In this study, we explore how modalities can be leveraged through multitask learning to intrinsically explain model behavior. In particular, instead of additional inputs, we use certain modalities as additional targets to be predicted along with the main task. The success of this approach relies on the rich information content of satellite data, which remains as input modalities. We show how this modeling context provides numerous benefits: (1) in case of data scarcity, the additional modalities do not need to be collected for model inference at deployment, (2) the model performance remains comparable to the multimodal baseline performance, and in some cases achieves better scores, (3) prediction errors in the main task can be explained via the model behavior in the auxiliary task(s). We demonstrate the efficiency of our approach on three datasets, including segmentation, classification, and regression tasks. Code available at git.opendfki.de/hiba.najjar/mtl_explainability/.

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