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| author | Kim, Soyeon Lim, Seongwoo Lee, Kyowoon Choi, Jaesik |
| author_facet | Kim, Soyeon Lim, Seongwoo Lee, Kyowoon Choi, Jaesik |
| contents | Integrated Gradients (IG) is a widely adopted feature attribution method that satisfies desirable axiomatic properties. However, the choice of integration path significantly affects the quality of attributions, and the standard straight-line path introduces all input features simultaneously, often accumulating noisy gradients along the way. To address this limitation, we propose Spectral Integrated Gradients, which constructs integration paths based on singular value decomposition (SVD) of the baseline-to-input difference. By progressively activating singular components from largest to smallest, SIG introduces global structure before fine-grained details, naturally following a coarse-to-fine progression. Through extensive evaluation across diverse image classification datasets, we demonstrate that SIG produces cleaner attribution maps with reduced noise and achieves improved quantitative performance compared to existing path-based attribution methods. Our code is available at https://github.com/leekwoon/sig/. |
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| spellingShingle | Spectral Integrated Gradients for Coarse-to-Fine Feature Attribution Kim, Soyeon Lim, Seongwoo Lee, Kyowoon Choi, Jaesik Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning 68T07, 68T05, 68T45 I.2.6; I.5.2; I.2.10 Integrated Gradients (IG) is a widely adopted feature attribution method that satisfies desirable axiomatic properties. However, the choice of integration path significantly affects the quality of attributions, and the standard straight-line path introduces all input features simultaneously, often accumulating noisy gradients along the way. To address this limitation, we propose Spectral Integrated Gradients, which constructs integration paths based on singular value decomposition (SVD) of the baseline-to-input difference. By progressively activating singular components from largest to smallest, SIG introduces global structure before fine-grained details, naturally following a coarse-to-fine progression. Through extensive evaluation across diverse image classification datasets, we demonstrate that SIG produces cleaner attribution maps with reduced noise and achieves improved quantitative performance compared to existing path-based attribution methods. Our code is available at https://github.com/leekwoon/sig/. |
| title | Spectral Integrated Gradients for Coarse-to-Fine Feature Attribution |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning 68T07, 68T05, 68T45 I.2.6; I.5.2; I.2.10 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.19607 |