跨域显著性图让时间序列模型解释更直观,能发现时域无法捕捉的深层特征。
Time series saliency maps: explaining models across multiple domains
- 将梯度积分法拓展到频域等跨域空间,支持频率、独立成分等多维度归因
- 在可穿戴心率、脑电癫痫检测等任务中,揭示了时域方法无法发现的关键特征
- 开源工具包即插即用,适合需要深度解释的医疗与工业时间序列场景
传统显著性图在计算机视觉中有效,但在时间序列中作用有限,因其仅关注时域点,难以捕捉语义有意义的特征。本文提出跨域积分梯度(Cross-domain Integrated Gradients),将积分梯度推广至可逆微分变换的任意域。关键创新在于将原方法扩展至复数域,实现频率层面的归因。理论证明路径无关性与完备性。通过受控实验、定量忠实度测试及真实案例验证:在可穿戴心率回归、脑电癫痫分类和零样本时间序列基础模型预测任务中,成功揭示时域方法无法捕捉的频率特征、独立成分与季节趋势。我们开源了 TensorFlow/PyTorch 工具包,实现时间序列模型的即插即用跨域解释。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Traditional saliency map methods, popularized in computer vision, highlight individual points (pixels) of the input that contribute the most to the model's output. However, in time series, they offer limited insights, as semantically meaningful features are often found in other domains. We introduce Cross-domain Integrated Gradients, a generalization of Integrated Gradients. Our method enables feature attributions in any domain that can be formulated as an invertible, differentiable transformation of the time domain. Crucially, our derivation extends the original Integrated Gradients into the complex domain, enabling frequency-based attributions. We provide the necessary theoretical guarantees, namely, path independence and completeness. We validate our method via controlled experiments with mechanistic analysis, quantitative faithfulness tests, and real-world case studies. Our approach reveals interpretable, problem-specific attributions that time-domain methods cannot capture in three real-world tasks across a variety of model architectures, machine-learning tasks, and cross-domain transforms: frequency-based attribution for a regression task in wearable heart rate extraction, independent component analysis in a classification task for electroencephalography-based seizure detection, and seasonal-trend decomposition for a forecasting problem with a zero-shot time-series foundation model. We release an open-source TensorFlow/PyTorch library to enable plug-and-play cross-domain explainability for time-series models. These results demonstrate the ability of Cross-Domain Integrated Gradients to provide semantically meaningful insights into time-series models that are impossible to achieve with traditional saliency in the time domain.
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