Summary of I Bet You Did Not Mean That: Testing Semantic Importance Via Betting, by Jacopo Teneggi et al.
I Bet You Did Not Mean That: Testing Semantic Importance via Betting
by Jacopo Teneggi, Jeremias Sulam
First submitted to arxiv on: 29 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper presents a novel approach to assessing the interpretability of semantic concepts in black-box predictive models. The authors formalize the statistical importance of these concepts, providing both global and local guarantees for transparent communication and avoiding unintended consequences. Using conditional independence and sequential kernelized independence testing (SKIT), they develop a framework that induces a ranking of importance across concepts. This approach is demonstrated on synthetic datasets and image classification tasks using various vision-language models. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper helps us understand how we can make sense of complex machine learning models by showing which parts are most important for making predictions. The authors create a new way to measure the importance of these “semantic concepts” and provide rules to follow when using them. This is helpful because it allows us to explain our results in a transparent way and avoid surprises. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Image classification » Machine learning
