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ProtoAttend

swMATH ID: 37082
Software Authors: Arik, Sercan O.; Pfister, Tomas
Description: ProtoAttend: attention-based prototypical learning. We propose a novel inherently interpretable machine learning method that bases decisions on few relevant examples that we call prototypes. Our method, ProtoAttend, can be integrated into a wide range of neural network architectures including pre-trained models. It utilizes an attention mechanism that relates the encoded representations to samples in order to determine prototypes. Protoattend yields superior results in three high impact problems without sacrificing accuracy of the original model: (1)it enables high-quality interpretability that outputs samples most relevant to the decision-making (i.e. a sample-based interpretability method); (2) it achieves state of the art confidence estimation by quantifying the mismatch across prototype labels; and (3) it obtains state of the art in distribution mismatch detection. All these can be achieved with minimal additional test time and a practically viable training time computational cost.
Homepage: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.06292
Source Code:  https://github.com/google-research/google-research/tree/master/protoattend
Dependencies: Python
Keywords: sample-based interpretability; confidence; attention; explainable deep learning; prototypical
Related Software: Tensor2Tensor; Adam
Cited in: 1 Document

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1 Publication describing the Software, including 1 Publication in zbMATH Year
ProtoAttend: attention-based prototypical learning. Zbl 07306899
Arik, Sercan O.; Pfister, Tomas
2020

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