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Automated Method for Evaluating Neural Network’s Attention Focus

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Rapid progress in machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) has brought increased attention to the potential security and reliability of AI technologies. This paper identifies the threat of network incorrectly relying on counterfactual features that can stay undetectable during validation but cause serious issues in life application. Furthermore, we propose a method to counter this hazard. It combines well-known techniques: object detection tool and saliency map obtaining formula to compute metric indicating potentially faulty learning. We prove the effectiveness of the method, as well as discuss its shortcomings.

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Szandała, T., Maciejewski, H. (2021). Automated Method for Evaluating Neural Network’s Attention Focus. In: Paszynski, M., Kranzlmüller, D., Krzhizhanovskaya, V.V., Dongarra, J.J., Sloot, P.M.A. (eds) Computational Science – ICCS 2021. ICCS 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12743. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77964-1_33

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