Summary of Wintsr: a Windowed Temporal Saliency Rescaling Method For Interpreting Time Series Deep Learning Models, by Md. Khairul Islam et al.
WinTSR: A Windowed Temporal Saliency Rescaling Method for Interpreting Time Series Deep Learning Models
by Md. Khairul Islam, Judy Fox
First submitted to arxiv on: 5 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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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 introduces Windowed Temporal Saliency Rescaling (WinTSR), a novel method for interpreting complex time series forecasting models that addresses limitations of existing methods. WinTSR captures temporal dependencies among past time steps, scales feature importance with time importance, and efficiently evaluates performance on real-world datasets using state-of-the-art deep-learning models. Benchmarking against 10 recent interpretation techniques, WinTSR outperforms other local interpretation methods in overall performance. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper develops a new way to understand how complex models forecast future events. This is important because these models are used in many areas, such as predicting stock prices or weather patterns. The method, called WinTSR, helps identify which factors are most important at different times. It’s tested on several real-world datasets and shown to be more effective than other methods. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Deep learning » Time series
