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Autori principali: Zheng, Guanhua, Sang, Jitao, Xu, Changsheng
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11160
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author Zheng, Guanhua
Sang, Jitao
Xu, Changsheng
author_facet Zheng, Guanhua
Sang, Jitao
Xu, Changsheng
contents Attributions aim to identify input pixels that are relevant to the decision-making process. A popular approach involves using modified backpropagation (BP) rules to reverse decisions, which improves interpretability compared to the original gradients. However, these methods lack a solid theoretical foundation and exhibit perplexing behaviors, such as reduced sensitivity to parameter randomization, raising concerns about their reliability and highlighting the need for theoretical justification. In this work, we present a unified theoretical framework for methods like GBP, RectGrad, LRP, and DTD, demonstrating that they achieve input alignment by combining the weights of activated neurons. This alignment improves the visualization quality and reduces sensitivity to weight randomization. Our contributions include: (1) Providing a unified explanation for multiple behaviors, rather than focusing on just one. (2) Accurately predicting novel behaviors. (3) Offering insights into decision-making processes, including layer-wise information changes and the relationship between attributions and model decisions.
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spellingShingle Unifying Perplexing Behaviors in Modified BP Attributions through Alignment Perspective
Zheng, Guanhua
Sang, Jitao
Xu, Changsheng
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Attributions aim to identify input pixels that are relevant to the decision-making process. A popular approach involves using modified backpropagation (BP) rules to reverse decisions, which improves interpretability compared to the original gradients. However, these methods lack a solid theoretical foundation and exhibit perplexing behaviors, such as reduced sensitivity to parameter randomization, raising concerns about their reliability and highlighting the need for theoretical justification. In this work, we present a unified theoretical framework for methods like GBP, RectGrad, LRP, and DTD, demonstrating that they achieve input alignment by combining the weights of activated neurons. This alignment improves the visualization quality and reduces sensitivity to weight randomization. Our contributions include: (1) Providing a unified explanation for multiple behaviors, rather than focusing on just one. (2) Accurately predicting novel behaviors. (3) Offering insights into decision-making processes, including layer-wise information changes and the relationship between attributions and model decisions.
title Unifying Perplexing Behaviors in Modified BP Attributions through Alignment Perspective
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11160