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Interpreto: An Explainability Library for Transformers

Computation and Language 2026-02-24 v2 Machine Learning

Abstract

Interpreto is an open-source Python library for interpreting HuggingFace language models, from early BERT variants to LLMs. It provides two complementary families of methods: attribution methods and concept-based explanations. The library bridges recent research and practical tooling by exposing explanation workflows through a unified API for both classification and text generation. A key differentiator is its end-to-end concept-based pipeline (from activation extraction to concept learning, interpretation, and scoring), which goes beyond feature-level attributions and is uncommon in existing libraries.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2512.09730,
  title  = {Interpreto: An Explainability Library for Transformers},
  author = {Antonin Poché and Thomas Mullor and Gabriele Sarti and Frédéric Boisnard and Corentin Friedrich and Charlotte Claye and François Hoofd and Raphael Bernas and Céline Hudelot and Fanny Jourdan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.09730},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

Equal contribution: Poch\'e and Jourdan

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