Diffusion-based Visual Counterfactual Explanations -- Towards Systematic Quantitative Evaluation

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العنوان: Diffusion-based Visual Counterfactual Explanations -- Towards Systematic Quantitative Evaluation
المؤلفون: Vaeth, Philipp, Fruehwald, Alexander M., Paassen, Benjamin, Gregorova, Magda
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: Computer Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computer Science - Machine Learning
الوصف: Latest methods for visual counterfactual explanations (VCE) harness the power of deep generative models to synthesize new examples of high-dimensional images of impressive quality. However, it is currently difficult to compare the performance of these VCE methods as the evaluation procedures largely vary and often boil down to visual inspection of individual examples and small scale user studies. In this work, we propose a framework for systematic, quantitative evaluation of the VCE methods and a minimal set of metrics to be used. We use this framework to explore the effects of certain crucial design choices in the latest diffusion-based generative models for VCEs of natural image classification (ImageNet). We conduct a battery of ablation-like experiments, generating thousands of VCEs for a suite of classifiers of various complexity, accuracy and robustness. Our findings suggest multiple directions for future advancements and improvements of VCE methods. By sharing our methodology and our approach to tackle the computational challenges of such a study on a limited hardware setup (including the complete code base), we offer a valuable guidance for researchers in the field fostering consistency and transparency in the assessment of counterfactual explanations.
Comment: Accepted at the 5th International Workshop on eXplainable Knowledge Discovery in Data Mining @ ECML 2023
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.06100
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2308.06100
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv