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Influence functions serve as crucial tools for assessing sample influence in model interpretation, subset training set selection, noisy label detection, and more. By employing the first-order Taylor extension, influence functions can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Ziao Yang , Han Yue , Jian Chen , Hongfu Liu

Influence functions are a popular tool for attributing a model's output to training data. The traditional approach relies on the calculation of inverse Hessian-vector products (iHVP), but the classical solver "Linear time Stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Yegor Klochkov , Yang Liu

The goal of data attribution is to trace the model's predictions through the learning algorithm and back to its training data. thereby identifying the most influential training samples and understanding how the model's behavior leads to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Hongbo Zhu , Angelo Cangelosi

Quantifying the influence of infinitesimal changes in training data on model performance is crucial for understanding and improving machine learning models. In this work, we reformulate this problem as a weighted empirical risk minimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Omri Lev , Ashia C. Wilson

Diffusion models have led to significant advancements in generative modelling. Yet their widespread adoption poses challenges regarding data attribution and interpretability. In this paper, we aim to help address such challenges in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Bruno Mlodozeniec , Runa Eschenhagen , Juhan Bae , Alexander Immer , David Krueger , Richard Turner

How can we explain the predictions of a black-box model? In this paper, we use influence functions -- a classic technique from robust statistics -- to trace a model's prediction through the learning algorithm and back to its training data,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-01 Pang Wei Koh , Percy Liang

Influence functions approximate the "influences" of training data-points for test predictions and have a wide variety of applications. Despite the popularity, their computational cost does not scale well with model and training data size.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Han Guo , Nazneen Fatema Rajani , Peter Hase , Mohit Bansal , Caiming Xiong

How can we explain the influence of training data on black-box models? Influence functions (IFs) offer a post-hoc solution by utilizing gradients and Hessians. However, computing the Hessian for an entire dataset is resource-intensive,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Jungyeon Koh , Hyeonsu Lyu , Jonggyu Jang , Hyun Jong Yang

Influence diagnostics such as influence functions and approximate maximum influence perturbations are popular in machine learning and in AI domain applications. Influence diagnostics are powerful statistical tools to identify influential…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-21 Jillian Fisher , Lang Liu , Krishna Pillutla , Yejin Choi , Zaid Harchaoui

Data plays a pivotal role in the groundbreaking advancements in artificial intelligence. The quantitative analysis of data significantly contributes to model training, enhancing both the efficiency and quality of data utilization. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Haoru Tan , Sitong Wu , Xiuzhe Wu , Wang Wang , Bo Zhao , Zeke Xie , Gui-Song Xia , Xiaojuan Qi

Influence functions offer a principled way to trace model predictions back to training data, but their use in deep learning is hampered by the need to invert a large, ill-conditioned Hessian matrix. Approximations such as Generalised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Steve Hong , Runa Eschenhagen , Bruno Mlodozeniec , Richard Turner

Influence functions estimate the effect of removing a training point on a model without the need to retrain. They are based on a first-order Taylor approximation that is guaranteed to be accurate for sufficiently small changes to the model,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Pang Wei Koh , Kai-Siang Ang , Hubert H. K. Teo , Percy Liang

Many language tasks (e.g., Named Entity Recognition, Part-of-Speech tagging, and Semantic Role Labeling) are naturally framed as sequence tagging problems. However, there has been comparatively little work on interpretability methods for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Sarthak Jain , Varun Manjunatha , Byron C. Wallace , Ani Nenkova

The increasing complexity of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) models has created a pressing need for tools that help scientists, engineers, and policymakers interpret and refine model decisions and predictions.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-17 Haolin Zou , Arnab Auddy , Yongchan Kwon , Kamiar Rahnama Rad , Arian Maleki

A critical aspect of analyzing and improving modern machine learning systems lies in understanding how individual training examples influence a model's predictive behavior. Estimating this influence enables critical applications, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Narine Kokhlikyan , Kamalika Chaudhuri , Saeed Mahloujifar

Influence functions provide a principled method to assess the contribution of individual training samples to a specific target. Yet, their high computational costs limit their applications on large-scale models and datasets. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Xinyu Zhou , Simin Fan , Martin Jaggi

Influence functions approximate how removing a training example changes a quantity of interest, called the target function, such as a held-out loss. To estimate the influence of a group of examples, the standard practice is to sum the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Jaeseung Heo , Kyeongheung Yun , Youngbin Choi , Sehyun Hwang , Jungseul Ok , Dongwoo Kim

Assessing the impact the training data on machine learning models is crucial for understanding the behavior of the model, enhancing the transparency, and selecting training data. Influence function provides a theoretical framework for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yuchen Zhang , Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri

Influence Functions are a standard tool for attributing predictions to training data in a principled manner and are widely used in applications such as data valuation and fairness. In this work, we present realistic incentives to manipulate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Chhavi Yadav , Ruihan Wu , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Large-scale black-box models have become ubiquitous across numerous applications. Understanding the influence of individual training data sources on predictions made by these models is crucial for improving their trustworthiness. Current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Myeongseob Ko , Feiyang Kang , Weiyan Shi , Ming Jin , Zhou Yu , Ruoxi Jia
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