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Widespread adoption of deep models has motivated a pressing need for approaches to interpret network outputs and to facilitate model debugging. Instance attribution methods constitute one means of accomplishing these goals by retrieving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Pouya Pezeshkpour , Sarthak Jain , Byron C. Wallace , Sameer Singh

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 estimate effect of individual data points on predictions of the model on test data and were adapted to deep learning in Koh and Liang [2017]. They have been used for detecting data poisoning, detecting helpful and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Nikunj Saunshi , Arushi Gupta , Mark Braverman , Sanjeev Arora

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

We consider a crowdsourcing data acquisition scenario, such as federated learning, where a Center collects data points from a set of rational Agents, with the aim of training a model. For linear regression models, we show how a payment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Adam Richardson , Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Boi Faltings

This paper aims to provide a tutorial for upper level undergraduate and graduate students in statistics, biostatistics and epidemiology on deriving influence functions for non-parametric and semi-parametric models. The author will build on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Jonathan Levy

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

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 (IF) have been seen as a technique for explaining model predictions through the lens of the training data. Their utility is assumed to be in identifying training examples "responsible" for a prediction so that, for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Andrea Schioppa , Katja Filippova , Ivan Titov , Polina Zablotskaia

Machine learning systems such as large scale recommendation systems or natural language processing systems are usually trained on billions of training points and are associated with hundreds of billions or trillions of parameters. Improving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Michael Kounavis , Ousmane Dia , Ilqar Ramazanli

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

Data attribution seeks to trace model outputs back to training data. With the recent development of diffusion models, data attribution has become a desired module to properly assign valuations for high-quality or copyrighted training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Xiaosen Zheng , Tianyu Pang , Chao Du , Jing Jiang , Min Lin

We study gradient-based data attribution, aiming to identify which training examples most influence a given output. Existing methods for this task either treat network parameters uniformly or rely on implicit weighting derived from Hessian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Shuangqi Li , Hieu Le , Jingyi Xu , Mathieu Salzmann

As an effective approach to quantify how training samples influence test sample, data attribution is crucial for understanding data and model and further enhance the transparency of machine learning models. We find that prevailing data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Linxiao Yang , Xinyu Gu , Liang Sun

Among the most critical limitations of deep learning NLP models are their lack of interpretability, and their reliance on spurious correlations. Prior work proposed various approaches to interpreting the black-box models to unveil the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Xiaochuang Han , Yulia Tsvetkov

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has revolutionized learning from large-scale unlabeled datasets, yet the intrinsic relationship between pretraining data and the learned representations remains poorly understood. Traditional supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Nidhin Harilal , Amit Kiran Rege , Reza Akbarian Bafghi , Maziar Raissi , Claire Monteleoni

Addressing data integrity challenges, such as unlearning the effects of data poisoning after model training, is necessary for the reliable deployment of machine learning models. State-of-the-art influence functions, such as EK-FAC and TRAK,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Wenjie Li , Jiawei Li , Pengcheng Zeng , Christian Schroeder de Witt , Ameya Prabhu , Amartya Sanyal

Influence functions are important for quantifying the impact of individual training data points on a model's predictions. Although extensive research has been conducted on influence functions in traditional machine learning models, their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Zhe Li , Wei Zhao , Yige Li , Jun Sun

A core data-centric learning challenge is the identification of training samples that are detrimental to model performance. Influence functions serve as a prominent tool for this task and offer a robust framework for assessing training data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Anshuman Chhabra , Bo Li , Jian Chen , Prasant Mohapatra , Hongfu Liu

Influence functions efficiently estimate the effect of removing a single training data point on a model's learned parameters. While influence estimates align well with leave-one-out retraining for linear models, recent works have shown this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Juhan Bae , Nathan Ng , Alston Lo , Marzyeh Ghassemi , Roger Grosse