arXiv:2601.06701cs.LGcs.AI2026-01被引 1

提出新方法ExCIR,让复杂模型的特征解释更准确可靠。

Explainability of Complex AI Models with Correlation Impact Ratio

  • 基于相关性影响比,单次计算即可捕捉特征依赖关系
  • 在多种数据集上表现稳定,优于传统解释方法
  • 适合需要高效可信解释的高维数据场景

复杂AI系统预测能力强但缺乏透明度,限制了可信性与安全部署。现有后验解释方法如LIME、SHAP、HSIC和SAGE虽模型无关,但易错排序相关特征,且扰动成本高,难以扩展至高维数据。本文提出ExCIR(Explainability through Correlation Impact Ratio),一种理论坚实、简单可靠、对噪声和采样变化稳定的特征贡献度度量方法。其通过轻量级单次计算捕获相关特征间的依赖关系。在EEG、合成车载数据、Digits和Cats-Dogs等多类数据集上的实验验证了ExCIR的有效性与稳定性,生成的特征解释更具可读性,同时计算高效。进一步地,我们基于信息论框架将相关性比率与典型相关分析统一于互信息边界内,实现可扩展的多输出及类别条件解释。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Complex AI systems make better predictions but often lack transparency, limiting trustworthiness, interpretability, and safe deployment. Common post hoc AI explainers, such as LIME, SHAP, HSIC, and SAGE, are model agnostic but are too restricted in one significant regard: they tend to misrank correlated features and require costly perturbations, which do not scale to high dimensional data. We introduce ExCIR (Explainability through Correlation Impact Ratio), a theoretically grounded, simple, and reliable metric for explaining the contribution of input features to model outputs, which remains stable and consistent under noise and sampling variations. We demonstrate that ExCIR captures dependencies arising from correlated features through a lightweight single pass formulation. Experimental evaluations on diverse datasets, including EEG, synthetic vehicular data, Digits, and Cats-Dogs, validate the effectiveness and stability of ExCIR across domains, achieving more interpretable feature explanations than existing methods while remaining computationally efficient. To this end, we further extend ExCIR with an information theoretic foundation that unifies the correlation ratio with Canonical Correlation Analysis under mutual information bounds, enabling multi output and class conditioned explainability at scale.

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