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Understanding Inter-Concept Relationships in Concept-Based Models

Machine Learning 2024-05-29 v1

Abstract

Concept-based explainability methods provide insight into deep learning systems by constructing explanations using human-understandable concepts. While the literature on human reasoning demonstrates that we exploit relationships between concepts when solving tasks, it is unclear whether concept-based methods incorporate the rich structure of inter-concept relationships. We analyse the concept representations learnt by concept-based models to understand whether these models correctly capture inter-concept relationships. First, we empirically demonstrate that state-of-the-art concept-based models produce representations that lack stability and robustness, and such methods fail to capture inter-concept relationships. Then, we develop a novel algorithm which leverages inter-concept relationships to improve concept intervention accuracy, demonstrating how correctly capturing inter-concept relationships can improve downstream tasks.

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@article{arxiv.2405.18217,
  title  = {Understanding Inter-Concept Relationships in Concept-Based Models},
  author = {Naveen Raman and Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga and Mateja Jamnik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.18217},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Accepted at ICML 2024

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