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Towards Automatic Concept-based Explanations

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arxiv 1902.03129 v3 pith:GP6GREEW submitted 2019-02-07 stat.ML cs.CVcs.LG

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keywords importantconceptsexplanationexplanationsfeaturefeaturesidentifyimportance
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Interpretability has become an important topic of research as more machine learning (ML) models are deployed and widely used to make important decisions. Most of the current explanation methods provide explanations through feature importance scores, which identify features that are important for each individual input. However, how to systematically summarize and interpret such per sample feature importance scores itself is challenging. In this work, we propose principles and desiderata for \emph{concept} based explanation, which goes beyond per-sample features to identify higher-level human-understandable concepts that apply across the entire dataset. We develop a new algorithm, ACE, to automatically extract visual concepts. Our systematic experiments demonstrate that \alg discovers concepts that are human-meaningful, coherent and important for the neural network's predictions.

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