arXiv:2504.00060cs.LGcs.AI2025-04被引 3

提升梯度类激活图稳定性,兼顾解释准确与计算效率。

CF-CAM: Cluster Filter Class Activation Mapping for Reliable Gradient-Based Interpretability

  • 用聚类过滤机制分离重要特征通道,抑制噪声干扰。
  • 在ImageNet上比SOTA方法提升1.8%解释忠实度,推理速度更快。
  • 适合医疗诊断、自动驾驶等高可靠性需求场景使用。

随着深度学习发展,神经网络决策透明性仍是关键挑战,限制其在高风险领域的信任与应用。类激活图(CAM)技术是可视化模型决策的重要手段,但现有方法存在固有权衡:基于梯度的变体受梯度噪声影响,导致解释不稳定;而无梯度方法虽稳定,却带来显著计算开销和延迟。为此,我们提出一种簇过滤类激活图(CF-CAM)框架,重新引入梯度加权的同时增强对梯度噪声的鲁棒性。CF-CAM采用分层重要性加权策略,在保留判别特征的同时消除噪声。通过基于DBSCAN的密度感知通道聚类,将语义相关特征通道分组并剔除易受噪声影响的激活。此外,簇条件梯度滤波利用高斯滤波器优化梯度信号,保持边缘感知定位能力的同时抑制噪声影响。实验表明,CF-CAM在解释忠实度和鲁棒性上均优于当前最优方法,同时提升计算效率。该方法有效缓解梯度不稳定性,且计算成本可控,为自动驾驶、医学诊断等关键应用提供可靠的可解释性解决方案。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

As deep learning continues to advance, the transparency of neural network decision-making remains a critical challenge, limiting trust and applicability in high-stakes domains. Class Activation Mapping (CAM) techniques have emerged as a key approach toward visualizing model decisions, yet existing methods face inherent trade-offs. Gradient-based CAM variants suffer from sensitivity to gradient perturbations due to gradient noise, leading to unstable and unreliable explanations. Conversely, gradient-free approaches mitigate gradient instability but incur significant computational overhead and inference latency. To address these limitations, we propose a Cluster Filter Class Activation Map (CF-CAM) technique, a novel framework that reintroduces gradient-based weighting while enhancing robustness against gradient noise. CF-CAM utilizes hierarchical importance weighting strategy to balance discriminative feature preservation and noise elimination. A density-aware channel clustering method via Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN) groups semantically relevant feature channels and discard noise-prone activations. Additionally, cluster-conditioned gradient filtering leverages Gaussian filters to refine gradient signals, preserving edge-aware localization while suppressing noise impact. Experiment results demonstrate that CF-CAM achieves superior interpretability performance while enhancing computational efficiency, outperforming state-of-the-art CAM methods in faithfulness and robustness. By effectively mitigating gradient instability without excessive computational cost, CF-CAM provides a competitive solution for enhancing the interpretability of deep neural networks in critical applications such as autonomous driving and medical diagnosis.

可解释性梯度分析图像分类

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