GRANITE: A Generalized Regional Framework for Identifying Agreement in Feature-Based Explanations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22771v1
• Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2026 09:49:26 GMT
• Title: GRANITE: A Generalized Regional Framework for Identifying Agreement in Feature-Based Explanations
• Abstract summary: Feature-based explanation methods aim to quantify how features influence the model's behavior, either locally or globally, but different methods often disagree.<n>We propose a generalized regional explanation framework that partitions the feature space into regions where interaction and distribution influences are minimized.<n>We demonstrate its effectiveness on real-world datasets, providing a practical tool for consistent and interpretable feature explanations.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Feature-based explanation methods aim to quantify how features influence the model's behavior, either locally or globally, but different methods often disagree, producing conflicting explanations. This disagreement arises primarily from two sources: how feature interactions are handled and how feature dependencies are incorporated. We propose GRANITE, a generalized regional explanation framework that partitions the feature space into regions where interaction and distribution influences are minimized. This approach aligns different explanation methods, yielding more consistent and interpretable explanations. GRANITE unifies existing regional approaches, extends them to feature groups, and introduces a recursive partitioning algorithm to estimate such regions. We demonstrate its effectiveness on real-world datasets, providing a practical tool for consistent and interpretable feature explanations.

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