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Autores principales: Zhang, Emerald, Weaver, Julian, Santacruz, Samantha R, Castillo, Edward
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Publicado: 2025
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Acceso en línea:https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23585
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author Zhang, Emerald
Weaver, Julian
Santacruz, Samantha R
Castillo, Edward
author_facet Zhang, Emerald
Weaver, Julian
Santacruz, Samantha R
Castillo, Edward
contents Explainable AI (XAI) methods help identify which image regions influence a model's prediction, but often face a trade-off between detail and interpretability. Layer-wise Relevance Propagation (LRP) offers a model-aware alternative. However, LRP implementations commonly rely on heuristic rule sets that are not optimized for clarity or alignment with model behavior. We introduce EVO-LRP, a method that applies Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES) to tune LRP hyperparameters based on quantitative interpretability metrics, such as faithfulness or sparseness. EVO-LRP outperforms traditional XAI approaches in both interpretability metric performance and visual coherence, with strong sensitivity to class-specific features. These findings demonstrate that attribution quality can be systematically improved through principled, task-specific optimization.
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spellingShingle EVO-LRP: Evolutionary Optimization of LRP for Interpretable Model Explanations
Zhang, Emerald
Weaver, Julian
Santacruz, Samantha R
Castillo, Edward
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Explainable AI (XAI) methods help identify which image regions influence a model's prediction, but often face a trade-off between detail and interpretability. Layer-wise Relevance Propagation (LRP) offers a model-aware alternative. However, LRP implementations commonly rely on heuristic rule sets that are not optimized for clarity or alignment with model behavior. We introduce EVO-LRP, a method that applies Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES) to tune LRP hyperparameters based on quantitative interpretability metrics, such as faithfulness or sparseness. EVO-LRP outperforms traditional XAI approaches in both interpretability metric performance and visual coherence, with strong sensitivity to class-specific features. These findings demonstrate that attribution quality can be systematically improved through principled, task-specific optimization.
title EVO-LRP: Evolutionary Optimization of LRP for Interpretable Model Explanations
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23585