Causal Explanation of Convolutional Neural Networks

• Published in: Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases. Research Track Vol. 12976; pp. 633 - 649
• Main Author: Debbi, Hichem
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Springer International Publishing AG 2021; Springer International Publishing
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Causality; Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs); Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI); Object localization; Pruning; Saliency maps

In this paper we introduce an explanation technique for Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) based on the theory of causality by Halpern and Pearl [12]. The causal explanation technique (CexCNN) is based on measuring the filter importance to a CNN decision, which is measured through counterfactual r...