Summary of Improving the Evaluation and Actionability Of Explanation Methods For Multivariate Time Series Classification, by Davide Italo Serramazza et al.
Improving the Evaluation and Actionability of Explanation Methods for Multivariate Time Series Classification
by Davide Italo Serramazza, Thach Le Nguyen, Georgiana Ifrim
First submitted to arxiv on: 18 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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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 an analysis of InterpretTime, a methodology for evaluating attribution methods in Multivariate Time Series Classification (MTSC). The authors highlight weaknesses in the original approach and propose improvements. They also demonstrate the effectiveness of perturbation-based methods such as SHAP and Feature Ablation for channel selection in MTSC, showing significant reductions in data size and improved classifier accuracy. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about explaining how machine learning models work on time series data. Right now, there aren’t many good ways to do this. The authors look at a method called InterpretTime that helps us understand why models are making certain decisions. They find some problems with this method and suggest ways to make it better. Then they show that using special techniques like SHAP and Feature Ablation can help us pick the most important data channels, which makes our models work even better. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Classification » Machine learning » Time series
