LatentExplainer: Explaining Latent Representations in Deep Generative Models with Multimodal Large Language Models

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Hauptverfasser: Zhu, Mengdan, Kanjiani, Raasikh, Lu, Jiahui, Choi, Andrew, Ye, Qirui, Zhao, Liang
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author Zhu, Mengdan
Kanjiani, Raasikh
Lu, Jiahui
Choi, Andrew
Ye, Qirui
Zhao, Liang
author_facet Zhu, Mengdan
Kanjiani, Raasikh
Lu, Jiahui
Choi, Andrew
Ye, Qirui
Zhao, Liang
contents Deep generative models like VAEs and diffusion models have advanced various generation tasks by leveraging latent variables to learn data distributions and generate high-quality samples. Despite the field of explainable AI making strides in interpreting machine learning models, understanding latent variables in generative models remains challenging. This paper introduces LatentExplainer, a framework for automatically generating semantically meaningful explanations of latent variables in deep generative models. LatentExplainer tackles three main challenges: inferring the meaning of latent variables, aligning explanations with inductive biases, and handling varying degrees of explainability. Our approach perturbs latent variables, interprets changes in generated data, and uses multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to produce human-understandable explanations. We evaluate our proposed method on several real-world and synthetic datasets, and the results demonstrate superior performance in generating high-quality explanations for latent variables. The results highlight the effectiveness of incorporating inductive biases and uncertainty quantification, significantly enhancing model interpretability.
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spellingShingle LatentExplainer: Explaining Latent Representations in Deep Generative Models with Multimodal Large Language Models
Zhu, Mengdan
Kanjiani, Raasikh
Lu, Jiahui
Choi, Andrew
Ye, Qirui
Zhao, Liang
Machine Learning
Computation and Language
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Deep generative models like VAEs and diffusion models have advanced various generation tasks by leveraging latent variables to learn data distributions and generate high-quality samples. Despite the field of explainable AI making strides in interpreting machine learning models, understanding latent variables in generative models remains challenging. This paper introduces LatentExplainer, a framework for automatically generating semantically meaningful explanations of latent variables in deep generative models. LatentExplainer tackles three main challenges: inferring the meaning of latent variables, aligning explanations with inductive biases, and handling varying degrees of explainability. Our approach perturbs latent variables, interprets changes in generated data, and uses multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to produce human-understandable explanations. We evaluate our proposed method on several real-world and synthetic datasets, and the results demonstrate superior performance in generating high-quality explanations for latent variables. The results highlight the effectiveness of incorporating inductive biases and uncertainty quantification, significantly enhancing model interpretability.
title LatentExplainer: Explaining Latent Representations in Deep Generative Models with Multimodal Large Language Models
topic Machine Learning
Computation and Language
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.14862