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Full-Gradient Representation for Neural Network Visualization

Srinivas, Suraj
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Fleuret, Francois  
2019
Advances In Neural Information Processing Systems 32 (Nips 2019), 32
33rd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

We introduce a new tool for interpreting neural net responses, namely full-gradients, which decomposes the neural net response into input sensitivity and per-neuron sensitivity components. This is the first proposed representation which satisfies two key properties: completeness and weak dependence, which provably cannot be satisfied by any saliency map-based interpretability method. For convolutional nets, we also propose an approximate saliency map representation, called FullGrad, obtained by aggregating the full-gradient components. We experimentally evaluate the usefulness of FullGrad in explaining model behaviour with two quantitative tests: pixel perturbation and remove-and-retrain. Our experiments reveal that our method explains model behavior correctly, and more comprehensively, than other methods in the literature. Visual inspection also reveals that our saliency maps are sharper and more tightly confined to object regions than other methods.

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conference paper
ArXiv ID

1905.00780

Author(s)
Srinivas, Suraj
Fleuret, Francois  
Date Issued

2019

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Advances In Neural Information Processing Systems 32 (Nips 2019), 32
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33rd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

Vancouver, CANADA

Dec 08-14, 2019

Available on Infoscience
November 7, 2019
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