On the Road to Clarity: Exploring Explainable AI for World Models in a Driver Assistance System

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Main Authors: Roshdi, Mohamed, Petzold, Julian, Wahby, Mostafa, Ebrahim, Hussein, Berekovic, Mladen, Hamann, Heiko
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author Roshdi, Mohamed
Petzold, Julian
Wahby, Mostafa
Ebrahim, Hussein
Berekovic, Mladen
Hamann, Heiko
author_facet Roshdi, Mohamed
Petzold, Julian
Wahby, Mostafa
Ebrahim, Hussein
Berekovic, Mladen
Hamann, Heiko
contents In Autonomous Driving (AD) transparency and safety are paramount, as mistakes are costly. However, neural networks used in AD systems are generally considered black boxes. As a countermeasure, we have methods of explainable AI (XAI), such as feature relevance estimation and dimensionality reduction. Coarse graining techniques can also help reduce dimensionality and find interpretable global patterns. A specific coarse graining method is Renormalization Groups from statistical physics. It has previously been applied to Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) to interpret unsupervised learning. We refine this technique by building a transparent backbone model for convolutional variational autoencoders (VAE) that allows mapping latent values to input features and has performance comparable to trained black box VAEs. Moreover, we propose a custom feature map visualization technique to analyze the internal convolutional layers in the VAE to explain internal causes of poor reconstruction that may lead to dangerous traffic scenarios in AD applications. In a second key contribution, we propose explanation and evaluation techniques for the internal dynamics and feature relevance of prediction networks. We test a long short-term memory (LSTM) network in the computer vision domain to evaluate the predictability and in future applications potentially safety of prediction models. We showcase our methods by analyzing a VAE-LSTM world model that predicts pedestrian perception in an urban traffic situation.
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spellingShingle On the Road to Clarity: Exploring Explainable AI for World Models in a Driver Assistance System
Roshdi, Mohamed
Petzold, Julian
Wahby, Mostafa
Ebrahim, Hussein
Berekovic, Mladen
Hamann, Heiko
Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multiagent Systems
In Autonomous Driving (AD) transparency and safety are paramount, as mistakes are costly. However, neural networks used in AD systems are generally considered black boxes. As a countermeasure, we have methods of explainable AI (XAI), such as feature relevance estimation and dimensionality reduction. Coarse graining techniques can also help reduce dimensionality and find interpretable global patterns. A specific coarse graining method is Renormalization Groups from statistical physics. It has previously been applied to Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) to interpret unsupervised learning. We refine this technique by building a transparent backbone model for convolutional variational autoencoders (VAE) that allows mapping latent values to input features and has performance comparable to trained black box VAEs. Moreover, we propose a custom feature map visualization technique to analyze the internal convolutional layers in the VAE to explain internal causes of poor reconstruction that may lead to dangerous traffic scenarios in AD applications. In a second key contribution, we propose explanation and evaluation techniques for the internal dynamics and feature relevance of prediction networks. We test a long short-term memory (LSTM) network in the computer vision domain to evaluate the predictability and in future applications potentially safety of prediction models. We showcase our methods by analyzing a VAE-LSTM world model that predicts pedestrian perception in an urban traffic situation.
title On the Road to Clarity: Exploring Explainable AI for World Models in a Driver Assistance System
topic Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multiagent Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17350