Summary of Upper Bound Of Bayesian Generalization Error in Partial Concept Bottleneck Model (cbm): Partial Cbm Outperforms Naive Cbm, by Naoki Hayashi and Yoshihide Sawada
Upper Bound of Bayesian Generalization Error in Partial Concept Bottleneck Model (CBM): Partial CBM outperforms naive CBM
by Naoki Hayashi, Yoshihide Sawada
First submitted to arxiv on: 14 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Statistics Theory (math.ST)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The Concept Bottleneck Model (CBM) is a method for explaining neural networks by inserting concepts corresponding to output reasons in the last intermediate layer. This approach allows interpreting the relationship between outputs and concepts similar to linear regression, but it requires observing all concepts, which affects generalization performance. To resolve this issue, Partial CBM (PCBM) uses partially observed concepts, showing promising numerical results. However, the theoretical behavior of PCBM’s generalization error remains unclear due to its singular statistical model. This paper investigates the Bayesian generalization error in a three-layered and linear PCBM architecture, revealing that partially observed concepts decrease the error compared to CBM. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The Concept Bottleneck Model (CBM) is a way to understand how neural networks work by adding special “concept” layers. Normally, this helps us see why the network is making certain predictions, but it makes the network worse at generalizing. To fix this, scientists created Partial CBM (PCBM), which only uses some of those concept layers. This works better in practice, but we don’t fully understand how well it will generalize. In this paper, researchers look into how PCBM’s generalization error behaves and find that using just some of the concept layers makes things better. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Generalization * Linear regression * Statistical model
