Summary of Textcavs: Debugging Vision Models Using Text, by Angus Nicolson et al.
TextCAVs: Debugging vision models using text
by Angus Nicolson, Yarin Gal, J. Alison Noble
First submitted to arxiv on: 16 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel method called TextCAVs is introduced in this paper, which creates concept activation vectors (CAVs) using vision-language models like CLIP. This approach eliminates the need for labelled image data, reducing costs and enabling users to interact with the model more efficiently. The authors demonstrate the effectiveness of TextCAVs by applying it to a chest x-ray dataset (MIMIC-CXR) and natural images (ImageNet), producing reasonable explanations that can be used to debug deep learning-based models. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps us understand deep learning models better. It presents a new way to explain how these models work using text descriptions instead of pictures. This makes it easier and cheaper to test new ideas, which is important for medical applications where collecting images can be time-consuming and expensive. The authors tested their approach on chest x-rays and natural images, showing that it works well. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Deep learning
