A Diagnostic Study of Explainability Techniques for Text Classification
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Recent developments in machine learning have introduced models that approach human performance at the cost of increased architectural complexity. Efforts to make the rationales behind the models’ predictions transparent have inspired an abundance of new explainability techniques. Provided with an already trained model, they compute saliency scores for the words of an input instance. However, there exists no definitive guide on (i) how to choose such a technique given a particular application task and model architecture, and (ii) the benefits and drawbacks of using each such technique. In this paper, we develop a comprehensive list of diagnostic properties for evaluating existing explainability techniques. We then employ the proposed list to compare a set of diverse explainability techniques on downstream text classification tasks and neural network architectures. We also compare the saliency scores assigned by the explainability techniques with human annotations of salient input regions to find relations between a model’s performance and the agreement of its rationales with human ones. Overall, we find that the gradient-based explanations perform best across tasks and model architectures, and we present further insights into the properties of the reviewed explainability techniques.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) |
Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics |
Publication date | 2020 |
Pages | 3256-3274 |
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Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Event | The 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing - online Duration: 16 Nov 2020 → 20 Nov 2020 http://2020.emnlp.org |
Conference
Conference | The 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing |
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Location | online |
Periode | 16/11/2020 → 20/11/2020 |
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