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Many important questions about a model cannot be answered just by explaining how much each feature contributes to its output. To answer a broader set of questions, we generalize a popular, mathematically well-grounded explanation technique,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Dillon Bowen , Lyle Ungar

In this paper, we dive into the reliability concerns of Integrated Gradients (IG), a prevalent feature attribution method for black-box deep learning models. We particularly address two predominant challenges associated with IG: the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Eslam Zaher , Maciej Trzaskowski , Quan Nguyen , Fred Roosta

We introduce path-sampled integrated gradients (PS-IG), a framework that generalizes feature attribution by computing the expected value over baselines sampled along the linear interpolation path. We prove that PS-IG is mathematically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Firuz Kamalov , Fadi Thabtah , R. Sivaraj , Neda Abdelhamid

Generalized estimating equation (GEE) is widely adopted for regression modeling for longitudinal data, taking account of potential correlations within the same subjects. Although the standard GEE assumes common regression coefficients among…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-07-11 Tsubasa Ito , Shonosuke Sugasawa

Feature attribution explains Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the instance level by providing importance scores of input features' contributions to model prediction. Integrated Gradients (IG) is a prominent path attribution method for deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yue Zhuo , Zhiqiang Ge

We introduce Riemannian Integrated Gradients (RIG); an extension of Integrated Gradients (IG) to Riemannian manifolds. We demonstrate that RIG restricts to IG when the Riemannian manifold is Euclidean space. We show that feature attribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Federico Costanza , Lachlan Simpson

Integrated Gradients (IG) is a widely used algorithm for attributing the outputs of a deep neural network to its input features. Due to the absence of closed-form integrals for deep learning models, inaccurate Riemann Sum approximations are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Swadesh Swain , Shree Singhi

Fairness in machine learning research has largely focused on outcome-oriented fairness criteria such as Equalized Odds, while comparatively less attention has been given to procedural-oriented fairness, which addresses how a model arrives…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Gideon Popoola , John Sheppard

Projection predictive inference is a decision theoretic Bayesian approach that decouples model estimation from decision making. Given a reference model previously built including all variables present in the data, projection predictive…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-10-15 Alejandro Catalina , Paul-Christian Bürkner , Aki Vehtari

Data imputation addresses the challenge of imputing missing values in database instances, ensuring consistency with the overall semantics of the dataset. Although several heuristics which rely on statistical methods, and ad-hoc rules have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Jiang Hua , Michael Bewong , Selasi Kwashie , MD Geaur Rahman , Junwei Hu , Xi Guo , Zaiwen Fen

We introduce Iterated Integrated Attributions (IIA) - a generic method for explaining the predictions of vision models. IIA employs iterative integration across the input image, the internal representations generated by the model, and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Oren Barkan , Yehonatan Elisha , Yuval Asher , Amit Eshel , Noam Koenigstein

The number of information systems (IS) studies dealing with explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) is currently exploding as the field demands more transparency about the internal decision logic of machine learning (ML) models. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Patrick Zschech , Sven Weinzierl , Nico Hambauer , Sandra Zilker , Mathias Kraus

Interpretability methods for deep neural networks mainly focus on the sensitivity of the class score with respect to the original or perturbed input, usually measured using actual or modified gradients. Some methods also use a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Md Mahfuzur Rahman , Noah Lewis , Sergey Plis

Integrated Gradients (IG) as well as its variants are well-known techniques for interpreting the decisions of deep neural networks. While IG-based approaches attain state-of-the-art performance, they often integrate noise into their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Ruo Yang , Binghui Wang , Mustafa Bilgic

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have received increasing attention due to their ability to learn from graph-structured data. However, their predictions are often not interpretable. Post-hoc instance-level explanation methods have been proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Jiaxing Zhang , Dongsheng Luo , Hua Wei

Feature attributions are post-training analysis methods that assess how various input features of a machine learning model contribute to an output prediction. Their interpretation is straightforward when features act independently, but it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Kurt Butler , Guanchao Feng , Petar Djuric

There has been a surge in Explainable-AI (XAI) methods that provide insights into the workings of Deep Neural Network (DNN) models. Integrated Gradients (IG) is a popular XAI algorithm that attributes relevance scores to input features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Ashwin Bhat , Arijit Raychowdhury

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

Generalized additive models (GAMs) provide a way to blend parametric and non-parametric (function approximation) techniques together, making them flexible tools suitable for many modeling problems. For instance, GAMs can be used to…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-07 Antti Solonen , Stratos Staboulis

The generalized inverse Gaussian, denoted $\mathrm{GIG}(p, a, b)$, is a flexible family of distributions that includes the gamma, inverse gamma, and inverse Gaussian distributions as special cases. In addition to its applications in…

Computation · Statistics 2025-01-28 Victor Peña , Michael Jauch