XAI-papers/README.md

Papers on Understanding and Explaining Neural Networks

This is an on-going attempt to consolidate all interesting efforts in the area of understanding / interpreting / explaining / visualizing neural networks.

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1. GUI tools

• Deep Visualization

2. Feature Visualization / Activation Maximization

• DGN-AM
• PPGN

3. Heatmap / Attribution

• Learning how to explain neural networks: PatternNet and PatternAttribution (pdf)

Layer-wise Backpropagation

• Beyond saliency: understanding convolutional neural networks from saliency prediction on layer-wise relevance propagation (pdf)

4. Bayesian

• Yang, S. C. H., & Shafto, P. Explainable Artificial Intelligence via Bayesian Teaching. NIPS 2017 (pdf)

Distilling DNNs into more interpretable models

• Interpreting CNNs via Decision Trees
• Distilling a Neural Network Into a Soft Decision Tree

DNNs that learn to explain

• Deep Learning for Case-Based Reasoning through Prototypes