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Main Authors: Bhattacharya, Debarpan, Poorjam, Amir H., Mittal, Deepak, Ganapathy, Sriram
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11123
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author Bhattacharya, Debarpan
Poorjam, Amir H.
Mittal, Deepak
Ganapathy, Sriram
author_facet Bhattacharya, Debarpan
Poorjam, Amir H.
Mittal, Deepak
Ganapathy, Sriram
contents The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), with the release of several large models having only query access, make a strong case for explainability of deep models in a post-hoc gradient free manner. In this paper, we propose a framework, named distillation aided explainability (DAX), that attempts to generate a saliency-based explanation in a model agnostic gradient free application. The DAX approach poses the problem of explanation in a learnable setting with a mask generation network and a distillation network. The mask generation network learns to generate the multiplier mask that finds the salient regions of the input, while the student distillation network aims to approximate the local behavior of the black-box model. We propose a joint optimization of the two networks in the DAX framework using the locally perturbed input samples, with the targets derived from input-output access to the black-box model. We extensively evaluate DAX across different modalities (image and audio), in a classification setting, using a diverse set of evaluations (intersection over union with ground truth, deletion based and subjective human evaluation based measures) and benchmark it with respect to $9$ different methods. In these evaluations, the DAX significantly outperforms the existing approaches on all modalities and evaluation metrics.
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spellingShingle Gradient-free Post-hoc Explainability Using Distillation Aided Learnable Approach
Bhattacharya, Debarpan
Poorjam, Amir H.
Mittal, Deepak
Ganapathy, Sriram
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Image and Video Processing
The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), with the release of several large models having only query access, make a strong case for explainability of deep models in a post-hoc gradient free manner. In this paper, we propose a framework, named distillation aided explainability (DAX), that attempts to generate a saliency-based explanation in a model agnostic gradient free application. The DAX approach poses the problem of explanation in a learnable setting with a mask generation network and a distillation network. The mask generation network learns to generate the multiplier mask that finds the salient regions of the input, while the student distillation network aims to approximate the local behavior of the black-box model. We propose a joint optimization of the two networks in the DAX framework using the locally perturbed input samples, with the targets derived from input-output access to the black-box model. We extensively evaluate DAX across different modalities (image and audio), in a classification setting, using a diverse set of evaluations (intersection over union with ground truth, deletion based and subjective human evaluation based measures) and benchmark it with respect to $9$ different methods. In these evaluations, the DAX significantly outperforms the existing approaches on all modalities and evaluation metrics.
title Gradient-free Post-hoc Explainability Using Distillation Aided Learnable Approach
topic Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11123