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Data attribution for generative models seeks to quantify the influence of individual training examples on model outputs. Existing methods for diffusion models typically require access to model gradients or retraining, limiting their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Yutian Zhao , Chao Du , Xiaosen Zheng , Tianyu Pang , Min Lin

Attribution methods reveal which input features a neural network uses for a prediction, adding transparency to their decisions. A common problem is that these attributions seem unspecific, highlighting both important and irrelevant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Nils Philipp Walter , Jilles Vreeken , Jonas Fischer

Explaining deep learning models in a way that humans can easily understand is essential for responsible artificial intelligence applications. Attribution methods constitute an important area of explainable deep learning. The attribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Michal Byra , Henrik Skibbe

In recent years, neural networks have demonstrated their remarkable ability to discern intricate patterns and relationships from raw data. However, understanding the inner workings of these black box models remains challenging, yet crucial…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-18 Niklas Koenen , Marvin N. Wright

Attribution methods have been developed to understand the decision-making process of machine learning models, especially deep neural networks, by assigning importance scores to individual features. Existing attribution methods often built…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-14 Huiqi Deng , Na Zou , Mengnan Du , Weifu Chen , Guocan Feng , Xia Hu

Neural networks are increasingly finding their way into the realm of graphs and modeling relationships between features. Concurrently graph neural network explanation approaches are being invented to uncover relationships between the nodes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Razieh Rezaei , Alireza Dizaji , Ashkan Khakzar , Anees Kazi , Nassir Navab , Daniel Rueckert

Large-scale IoT weather sensing networks require incentive mechanisms to sustain participation, yet determining how much value individual data contributions bring to the network remains an open problem. Existing approaches address data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Mark C. Ballandies , Michael T. C. Chiu , Claudio J. Tessone

Despite a sea of interpretability methods that can produce plausible explanations, the field has also empirically seen many failure cases of such methods. In light of these results, it remains unclear for practitioners how to use these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Blair Bilodeau , Natasha Jaques , Pang Wei Koh , Been Kim

Recent work has shown great promise in explaining neural network behavior. In particular, feature attribution methods explain which features were most important to a model's prediction on a given input. However, for many tasks, simply…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Joseph D. Janizek , Pascal Sturmfels , Su-In Lee

Integrated Gradients as an attribution method for deep neural network models offers simple implementability. However, it suffers from noisiness of explanations which affects the ease of interpretability. The SmoothGrad technique is proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Gary S. W. Goh , Sebastian Lapuschkin , Leander Weber , Wojciech Samek , Alexander Binder

We investigate the approximation efficiency of score functions by deep neural networks in diffusion-based generative modeling. While existing approximation theories utilize the smoothness of score functions, they suffer from the curse of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Song Mei , Yuchen Wu

Deep Neural Networks have been successfully used for the task of Visual Question Answering for the past few years owing to the availability of relevant large scale datasets. However these datasets are created in artificial settings and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Shaunak Halbe

Predictions made by deep learning models are prone to data perturbations, adversarial attacks, and out-of-distribution inputs. To build a trusted AI system, it is therefore critical to accurately quantify the prediction uncertainties. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Hanjing Wang , Dhiraj Joshi , Shiqiang Wang , Qiang Ji

Image super-resolution (SR) techniques have been developing rapidly, benefiting from the invention of deep networks and its successive breakthroughs. However, it is acknowledged that deep learning and deep neural networks are difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jinjin Gu , Chao Dong

Integrated Gradients (IG) is a widely used attribution method in explainable AI, particularly in computer vision applications where reliable feature attribution is essential. A key limitation of IG is its sensitivity to the choice of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-21 Kien Tran Duc Tuan , Tam Nguyen Trong , Son Nguyen Hoang , Khoat Than , Anh Nguyen Duc

Deep neural networks can predict human judgments, but this does not imply that they rely on human-like information or reveal the cues underlying those judgments. Prior work has addressed this issue using attribution heatmaps, but their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Icaro Re Depaolini , Uri Hasson

Feature attribution is essential for interpreting deep learning models, particularly in time-series domains such as healthcare, biometrics, and human-AI interaction. However, standard attribution methods, such as Integrated Gradients or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Benedikt W. Hosp

Attribution algorithms are frequently employed to explain the decisions of neural network models. Integrated Gradients (IG) is an influential attribution method due to its strong axiomatic foundation. The algorithm is based on integrating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Chase Walker , Sumit Jha , Kenny Chen , Rickard Ewetz

The expansion of explainable artificial intelligence as a field of research has generated numerous methods of visualizing and understanding the black box of a machine learning model. Attribution maps are generally used to highlight the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Ian E. Nielsen , Ravi P. Ramachandran , Nidhal Bouaynaya , Hassan M. Fathallah-Shaykh , Ghulam Rasool

The problem of attribution is concerned with identifying the parts of an input that are responsible for a model's output. An important family of attribution methods is based on measuring the effect of perturbations applied to the input. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Ruth Fong , Mandela Patrick , Andrea Vedaldi