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Main Authors: Singhi, Shree, Kumari, Anupriya
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.09043
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author Singhi, Shree
Kumari, Anupriya
author_facet Singhi, Shree
Kumari, Anupriya
contents We conducted a reproducibility study on Integrated Gradients (IG) based methods and the Important Direction Gradient Integration (IDGI) framework. IDGI eliminates the explanation noise in each step of the computation of IG-based methods that use the Riemann Integration for integrated gradient computation. We perform a rigorous theoretical analysis of IDGI and raise a few critical questions that we later address through our study. We also experimentally verify the authors' claims concerning the performance of IDGI over IG-based methods. Additionally, we varied the number of steps used in the Riemann approximation, an essential parameter in all IG methods, and analyzed the corresponding change in results. We also studied the numerical instability of the attribution methods to check the consistency of the saliency maps produced. We developed the complete code to implement IDGI over the baseline IG methods and evaluated them using three metrics since the available code was insufficient for this study.
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spellingShingle Strengthening Interpretability: An Investigative Study of Integrated Gradient Methods
Singhi, Shree
Kumari, Anupriya
Numerical Analysis
We conducted a reproducibility study on Integrated Gradients (IG) based methods and the Important Direction Gradient Integration (IDGI) framework. IDGI eliminates the explanation noise in each step of the computation of IG-based methods that use the Riemann Integration for integrated gradient computation. We perform a rigorous theoretical analysis of IDGI and raise a few critical questions that we later address through our study. We also experimentally verify the authors' claims concerning the performance of IDGI over IG-based methods. Additionally, we varied the number of steps used in the Riemann approximation, an essential parameter in all IG methods, and analyzed the corresponding change in results. We also studied the numerical instability of the attribution methods to check the consistency of the saliency maps produced. We developed the complete code to implement IDGI over the baseline IG methods and evaluated them using three metrics since the available code was insufficient for this study.
title Strengthening Interpretability: An Investigative Study of Integrated Gradient Methods
topic Numerical Analysis
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.09043