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Fine-grained Interpretation and Causation Analysis in Deep NLP Models

Computation and Language 2021-06-01 v2

Abstract

This paper is a write-up for the tutorial on "Fine-grained Interpretation and Causation Analysis in Deep NLP Models" that we are presenting at NAACL 2021. We present and discuss the research work on interpreting fine-grained components of a model from two perspectives, i) fine-grained interpretation, ii) causation analysis. The former introduces methods to analyze individual neurons and a group of neurons with respect to a language property or a task. The latter studies the role of neurons and input features in explaining decisions made by the model. We also discuss application of neuron analysis such as network manipulation and domain adaptation. Moreover, we present two toolkits namely NeuroX and Captum, that support functionalities discussed in this tutorial.

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@article{arxiv.2105.08039,
  title  = {Fine-grained Interpretation and Causation Analysis in Deep NLP Models},
  author = {Hassan Sajjad and Narine Kokhlikyan and Fahim Dalvi and Nadir Durrani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.08039},
  year   = {2021}
}

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Accepted at NAACL Tutorial

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