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Main Authors: Kurek, Izabela, Trejter, Wojciech, Frkovic, Stipe, Erdelez, Andro
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14846
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author Kurek, Izabela
Trejter, Wojciech
Frkovic, Stipe
Erdelez, Andro
author_facet Kurek, Izabela
Trejter, Wojciech
Frkovic, Stipe
Erdelez, Andro
contents This work aims to reproduce the results of Faithful Vision Transformers (FViTs) proposed by arXiv:2311.17983 alongside interpretability methods for Vision Transformers from arXiv:2012.09838 and Xu (2022) et al. We investigate claims made by arXiv:2311.17983, namely that the usage of Diffusion Denoised Smoothing (DDS) improves interpretability robustness to (1) attacks in a segmentation task and (2) perturbation and attacks in a classification task. We also extend the original study by investigating the authors' claims that adding DDS to any interpretability method can improve its robustness under attack. This is tested on baseline methods and the recently proposed Attribution Rollout method. In addition, we measure the computational costs and environmental impact of obtaining an FViT through DDS. Our results broadly agree with the original study's findings, although minor discrepancies were found and discussed.
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spellingShingle [Re] Improving Interpretation Faithfulness for Vision Transformers
Kurek, Izabela
Trejter, Wojciech
Frkovic, Stipe
Erdelez, Andro
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
This work aims to reproduce the results of Faithful Vision Transformers (FViTs) proposed by arXiv:2311.17983 alongside interpretability methods for Vision Transformers from arXiv:2012.09838 and Xu (2022) et al. We investigate claims made by arXiv:2311.17983, namely that the usage of Diffusion Denoised Smoothing (DDS) improves interpretability robustness to (1) attacks in a segmentation task and (2) perturbation and attacks in a classification task. We also extend the original study by investigating the authors' claims that adding DDS to any interpretability method can improve its robustness under attack. This is tested on baseline methods and the recently proposed Attribution Rollout method. In addition, we measure the computational costs and environmental impact of obtaining an FViT through DDS. Our results broadly agree with the original study's findings, although minor discrepancies were found and discussed.
title [Re] Improving Interpretation Faithfulness for Vision Transformers
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14846