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Feature attribution, the ability to localize regions of the input data that are relevant for classification, is an important capability for ML models in scientific and biomedical domains. Current methods for feature attribution, which rely…

The use of data-driven methods in fluid mechanics has surged dramatically in recent years due to their capacity to adapt to the complex and multi-scale nature of turbulent flows, as well as to detect patterns in large-scale simulations or…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-19 Andrés Cremades , Sergio Hoyas , Ricardo Vinuesa

We introduce the metagame, a conceptual framework for quantifying second-order interaction effects of model explanations. For any first-order attribution $\phi(f)$ explaining a model $f$, we measure the directional influence of feature $j$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Hubert Baniecki , Przemyslaw Biecek , Fabian Fumagalli

We address the critical challenge of applying feature attribution methods to the transformer architecture, which dominates current applications in natural language processing and beyond. Traditional attribution methods to explainable AI…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Tobias Leemann , Alina Fastowski , Felix Pfeiffer , Gjergji Kasneci

Injectivity is the defining property of a mapping that ensures no information is lost and any input can be perfectly reconstructed from its output. By performing hard thresholding, the ReLU function naturally interferes with this property,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Daniel Haider , Martin Ehler , Peter Balazs

In the current Large Language Model (LLM) ecosystem, creators have little agency over how their data is used, and LLM users may find themselves unknowingly plagiarizing existing sources. Attribution of LLM-generated text to LLM input data…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Amelie Wührl , Mattes Ruckdeschel , Kyle Lo , Anna Rogers

Machine learning algorithms have difficulties to generalize over a small set of examples. Humans can perform such a task by exploiting vast amount of background knowledge they possess. One method for enhancing learning algorithms with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Michal Badian , Shaul Markovitch

Besides the complexity in time or in number of messages, a common approach for analyzing distributed algorithms is to look at the assumptions they make on the underlying network. We investigate this question from the perspective of network…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-05-02 Arnaud Casteigts , Serge Chaumette , Afonso Ferreira

Reward learning enables robots to learn adaptable behaviors from human input. Traditional methods model the reward as a linear function of hand-crafted features, but that requires specifying all the relevant features a priori, which is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Andreea Bobu , Marius Wiggert , Claire Tomlin , Anca D. Dragan

In this article, we provide an axiomatic characterization of feature attribution for multi-output predictors within the Shapley framework. While SHAP explanations are routinely computed independently for each output coordinate, the…

We study the attribution problem, that is, the problem of attributing a change in the value of a characteristic function to its independent variables. We make three contributions. First, we propose a formalization of the problem based on a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-13 Yi Sun , Mukund Sundararajan

As an emerging field in Machine Learning, Explainable AI (XAI) has been offering remarkable performance in interpreting the decisions made by Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). To achieve visual explanations for CNNs, methods based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Sam Sattarzadeh , Mahesh Sudhakar , Anthony Lem , Shervin Mehryar , K. N. Plataniotis , Jongseong Jang , Hyunwoo Kim , Yeonjeong Jeong , Sangmin Lee , Kyunghoon Bae

Widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and machine learning (ML) models on the one hand and a number of crucial issues pertaining to them warrant the need for explainable artificial intelligence (XAI). A key…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Jinqiang Yu , Graham Farr , Alexey Ignatiev , Peter J. Stuckey

Attributing the output of a neural network to the contribution of given input elements is a way of shedding light on the black-box nature of neural networks. Due to the complexity of current network architectures, current gradient-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Ashkan Khakzar , Soroosh Baselizadeh , Saurabh Khanduja , Christian Rupprecht , Seong Tae Kim , Nassir Navab

Randomized methods of neural network learning suffer from a problem with the generation of random parameters as they are difficult to set optimally to obtain a good projection space. The standard method draws the parameters from a fixed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Grzegorz Dudek

A central goal of eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) is to assign relative importance to the features of a Machine Learning (ML) model given some prediction. The importance of this task of explainability by feature attribution is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Olivier Letoffe , Xuanxiang Huang , Nicholas Asher , Joao Marques-Silva

Recent research in feature learning has been extended to sequence data, where each instance consists of a sequence of heterogeneous items with a variable length. However, in many real-world applications, the data exists in the form of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Zhongfang Zhuang

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

We study the realization map of deep ReLU networks, focusing on when a function determines its parameters up to scaling and permutation. To analyze hidden redundancies beyond these standard symmetries, we introduce a framework based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Moritz Grillo , Guido Montúfar

The rapid advancement and widespread adoption of machine learning-driven technologies have underscored the practical and ethical need for creating interpretable artificial intelligence systems. Feature importance, a method that assigns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Nimrod Harel , Uri Obolski , Ran Gilad-Bachrach