Model interpretation and explanation

Colorizing black boxes



The meeting point of differential privacy, accountability, interpretability, the tank detection story, clever horses in machine learning.

Closely related: am I explaining the model so I can see if it is fair?

There is much work; I understand little of it at the moment, but I keep needing to refer to papers.

Impossibility

Integrated gradients

Ancona et al. (2017);Sundararajan, Taly, and Yan (2017) Captum implementation seems neat.

When do neurons mean something?

  • Toy Models of Superposition

    It would be very convenient if the individual neurons of artificial neural networks corresponded to cleanly interpretable features of the input. For example, in an “ideal” ImageNet classifier, each neuron would fire only in the presence of a specific visual feature, such as the color red, a left-facing curve, or a dog snout. Empirically, in models we have studied, some of the neurons do cleanly map to features. But it isn’t always the case that features correspond so cleanly to neurons, especially in large language models where it actually seems rare for neurons to correspond to clean features. This brings up many questions. Why is it that neurons sometimes align with features and sometimes don’t? Why do some models and tasks have many of these clean neurons, while they’re vanishingly rare in others?

Incoming

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