Software for dataset-wide XAI: From local explanations to global insights with Zennit, CoRelAy, and ViRelAy
Christopher J. Anders, David Neumann, Wojciech Samek, Klaus‐Robert Müller, Sebastian Lapuschkin
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The predictive capabilities of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are well-established, yet the underlying mechanisms driving these predictions often remain opaque. The advent of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) has introduced novel methodologies to explore the reasoning behind complex model predictions of complex models. Among post-hoc attribution methods, Layer-wise Relevance Propagation (LRP) has demonstrated no ...
table adaptability and performance for explaining individual predictions – provided the method is used to its full potential. For deeper dataset-wide and quantitative analyses, however, the manual inspection of individual attribution maps remains unnecessarily labor-intensive and time consuming. While several approaches for dataset-wide XAI-analyses have been proposed, unified and accessible implementations of such tools are still lacking. Furthermore, there is a notable absence of dedicated visualization and analysis software to support stakeholders in interpreting both local and global XAI results effectively. This gap underscores the need for comprehensive software tools that facilitate both granular and holistic understanding of model behavior, as well as easing the adaptability of XAI in applications and the sciences. To address these challenges, we present three software packages designed to facilitate the exploration of model reasoning using attribution approaches and beyond: (1) Zennit – a highly customizable and intuitive attribution framework implementing LRP and related methods in PyTorch, (2) CoRelAy – a framework to easily and quickly construct quantitative analysis pipelines for dataset-wide analyses of explanations, and (3) ViRelAy – an interactive web-application for exploring data, attributions, and analysis results. By providing a standardized implementation for XAI, we aim to promote reproducibility in our field and empower scientists and practitioners to uncover the intricacies of complex model behavior.
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The predictive capabilities of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are well-established, yet the underlying mechanisms driving these predictions often remain opaque.
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