IMPACTX: improving model performance by appropriately constraining the training with teacher explanations

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Autori principali: Apicella, Andrea, Giugliano, Salvatore, Isgrò, Francesco, Pollastro, Andrea, Prevete, Roberto
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author Apicella, Andrea
Giugliano, Salvatore
Isgrò, Francesco
Pollastro, Andrea
Prevete, Roberto
author_facet Apicella, Andrea
Giugliano, Salvatore
Isgrò, Francesco
Pollastro, Andrea
Prevete, Roberto
contents The eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) research predominantly concentrates to provide explainations about AI model decisions, especially Deep Learning (DL) models. However, there is a growing interest in using XAI techniques to automatically improve the performance of the AI systems themselves. This paper proposes IMPACTX, a novel approach that leverages XAI as a fully automated attention mechanism, without requiring external knowledge or human feedback. Experimental results show that IMPACTX has improved performance respect to the standalone ML model by integrating an attention mechanism based an XAI method outputs during the model training. Furthermore, IMPACTX directly provides proper feature attribution maps for the model's decisions, without relying on external XAI methods during the inference process. Our proposal is evaluated using three widely recognized DL models (EfficientNet-B2, MobileNet, and LeNet-5) along with three standard image datasets: CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, and STL-10. The results show that IMPACTX consistently improves the performance of all the inspected DL models across all evaluated datasets, and it directly provides appropriate explanations for its responses.
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Apicella, Andrea
Giugliano, Salvatore
Isgrò, Francesco
Pollastro, Andrea
Prevete, Roberto
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
The eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) research predominantly concentrates to provide explainations about AI model decisions, especially Deep Learning (DL) models. However, there is a growing interest in using XAI techniques to automatically improve the performance of the AI systems themselves. This paper proposes IMPACTX, a novel approach that leverages XAI as a fully automated attention mechanism, without requiring external knowledge or human feedback. Experimental results show that IMPACTX has improved performance respect to the standalone ML model by integrating an attention mechanism based an XAI method outputs during the model training. Furthermore, IMPACTX directly provides proper feature attribution maps for the model's decisions, without relying on external XAI methods during the inference process. Our proposal is evaluated using three widely recognized DL models (EfficientNet-B2, MobileNet, and LeNet-5) along with three standard image datasets: CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, and STL-10. The results show that IMPACTX consistently improves the performance of all the inspected DL models across all evaluated datasets, and it directly provides appropriate explanations for its responses.
title IMPACTX: improving model performance by appropriately constraining the training with teacher explanations
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12222