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Summary of Toward Understanding the Disagreement Problem in Neural Network Feature Attribution, by Niklas Koenen and Marvin N. Wright


Toward Understanding the Disagreement Problem in Neural Network Feature Attribution

by Niklas Koenen, Marvin N. Wright

First submitted to arxiv on: 17 Apr 2024

Categories

  • Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
  • Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)

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Medium GrooveSquid.com (original content) Medium Difficulty Summary
The proposed paper investigates the inner workings of neural networks by examining feature attribution methods, which assign relevance scores to input variables for model predictions. The study aims to resolve the ongoing debate about which method to use by exploring the fundamental and distributional behavior of explanations. The research also assesses the impact of scaling and encoding techniques on explanation quality and evaluates the efficacy across different effect sizes. Additionally, the paper highlights inconsistencies in rank-based evaluation metrics.
Low GrooveSquid.com (original content) Low Difficulty Summary
The proposed paper tries to figure out how neural networks work by looking at how they assign importance to each piece of data that goes into a prediction. The study wants to settle the argument about which way is best to do this by studying what makes explanations good or bad. It also looks at how different ways of preparing and scaling the data affect how well it explains things, and whether certain methods are better than others.

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