Abstract
Given the wide use of machine learning approaches based on opaque prediction models, understanding the reasons behind decisions of black box decision systems is nowadays a crucial topic. We address the problem of providing meaningful explanations in the widely-applied image classification tasks. In particular, we explore the impact of changing the neighborhood generation function for a local interpretable model-agnostic explanator by proposing four different variants. All the proposed methods are based on a grid-based segmentation of the images, but each of them proposes a different strategy for generating the neighborhood of the image for which an explanation is required. A deep experimentation shows both improvements and weakness of each proposed approach.
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Notes
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IDRs do not necessarily correspond to the features used by the black box in the prediction process. Indeed, such features may be not suitable for being shown as explanation.
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In the rest of this work, feature, patch, area, piece are used to denote the same concept.
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For the neighborhood \(N_x\) LIME generates m vectors w uniformly at random, assigning to them a weight that is proportional to their distance from the original image. The distance is used for assigning less importance to noisy images (that are too far away to be considered neighbors) and for focusing on the samples that are close to the original picture.
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For the sake of space we do not report experiments varying the probability of selection.
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Source code and dataset can be found at: https://github.com/leqo-c/Tesi.
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For the sake of simplicity of exposure and due to length constraints, we analyze both parameters in the same plots and we remand interested readers to the repository for further details.
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We do not report results using grid size lower than \(8\times 8\) (i.e., \(2\times 2\), \(4\times 4\), \(6\times 6\)) or higher than \(32\times 32\) (i.e., \(64\times 64\), \(128\times 128\)) has they have poor performance compared to those reported.
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This work is partially supported by the European Community H2020 program under the funding scheme “INFRAIA-1-2014-2015: Research Infrastructures” G.A. 654024 “SoBigData”, http://www.sobigdata.eu, by the European Unions H2020 program under G.A. 78835, “Pro-Res”, http://prores-project.eu/, and by the European Unions H2020 program under G.A. 780754, “Track & Know”.
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Guidotti, R., Monreale, A., Cariaggi, L. (2019). Investigating Neighborhood Generation Methods for Explanations of Obscure Image Classifiers. In: Yang, Q., Zhou, ZH., Gong, Z., Zhang, ML., Huang, SJ. (eds) Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. PAKDD 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11439. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16148-4_5
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