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Look at the Variance! Efficient Black-box Explanations with Sobol-based Sensitivity Analysis
Thomas FEL · Remi Cadene · Mathieu Chalvidal · Matthieu Cord · David Vigouroux · Thomas Serre

Thu Dec 09 08:30 AM -- 10:00 AM (PST) @
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We describe a novel attribution method which is grounded in Sensitivity Analysis and uses Sobol indices. Beyond modeling the individual contributions of image regions, Sobol indices provide an efficient way to capture higher-order interactions between image regions and their contributions to a neural network's prediction through the lens of variance.We describe an approach that makes the computation of these indices efficient for high-dimensional problems by using perturbation masks coupled with efficient estimators to handle the high dimensionality of images.Importantly, we show that the proposed method leads to favorable scores on standard benchmarks for vision (and language models) while drastically reducing the computing time compared to other black-box methods -- even surpassing the accuracy of state-of-the-art white-box methods which require access to internal representations. Our code is freely available:github.com/fel-thomas/Sobol-Attribution-Method.

Keywords: Deep Learning · Machine Learning · Vision · Interpretability

Author Information

Thomas FEL (Brown University)
Remi Cadene (Sorbonne University - LIP6)
Mathieu Chalvidal (Brown)
Matthieu Cord (Sorbonne University)
David Vigouroux (IRT Saint Exupery)
Thomas Serre (Brown University)

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