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AudioMNIST: Exploring Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Audio Analysis on a Simple Benchmark

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arxiv 1807.03418 v3 pith:V2KNBZ72 submitted 2018-07-09 cs.SD cs.AIcs.LGeess.AS

Sören Becker , Johanna Vielhaben , Marcel Ackermann , Klaus-Robert Müller , Sebastian Lapuschkin , Wojciech Samek This is my paper
classification cs.SDcs.AIcs.LGeess.AS
keywords audioexplanationsneuralartificialaudibleclassificationdatadigits
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Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) is targeted at understanding how models perform feature selection and derive their classification decisions. This paper explores post-hoc explanations for deep neural networks in the audio domain. Notably, we present a novel Open Source audio dataset consisting of 30,000 audio samples of English spoken digits which we use for classification tasks on spoken digits and speakers' biological sex. We use the popular XAI technique Layer-wise Relevance Propagation (LRP) to identify relevant features for two neural network architectures that process either waveform or spectrogram representations of the data. Based on the relevance scores obtained from LRP, hypotheses about the neural networks' feature selection are derived and subsequently tested through systematic manipulations of the input data. Further, we take a step beyond visual explanations and introduce audible heatmaps. We demonstrate the superior interpretability of audible explanations over visual ones in a human user study.

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