arXiv:2606.07180cs.CVcs.LG2026-06

用逻辑严谨的视觉热图解释深度模型决策,确保关键概念既充分又最小。

OPTIMUS-Prime: Minimal and Sufficient Concept Explanations for Deep Vision Models

论文配图:OPTIMUS-Prime: Minimal and Sufficient Concept Explanations for Deep Vision Models
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  • 基于素合取式理论生成视觉解释,保证逻辑完整性。
  • 解释同时满足充分性与最小性,不冗余也不遗漏关键信息。
  • 适合需要可信赖解释的医疗、金融等高风险领域应用。

自动化决策透明度需求推动可解释人工智能(XAI)成为机器学习研究前沿。然而,在计算机视觉领域,现有解释方法常为提升用户易懂性而牺牲理论保障,导致实用价值与理论严谨性之间存在显著差距。本文提出OPTIMUS框架,为深度分类模型生成基于概念的视觉解释。该框架生成的热图不仅对终端用户直观可读,且基于成熟的素合取式(prime implicants)理论,提供形式化保证。具体而言,其解释满足两个理想属性:充分性(sufficiency),即突出的概念能确保证明分类器预测成立;最小性(minimality),即不存在严格子集也能达成此保证。二者结合使解释在逻辑上严密且视觉上连贯。我们在视觉分类基准上验证了该方法,结果表明OPTIMUS热图能自然、真实地揭示模型预测背后的决策相关概念。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

The growing demand for transparency in automated decision-making has propelled eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) to the forefront of machine learning research. In computer vision, however, existing explanation methods often prioritize end-user accessibility at the expense of formal guarantees, leaving a critical gap between practical utility and theoretical rigor. In this paper, we address this gap by introducing OPTIMUS, a novel framework for generating concept-based visual explanations for deep classification models. OPTIMUS explanations take the form of visual heatmaps that not only remain interpretable to end users, but are grounded in the well-established theory of prime implicants, providing formal guarantees that have been largely absent from existing saliency-based methods. Specifically, OPTIMUS explanations satisfy two desirable properties: sufficiency, ensuring that the highlighted concepts provably guarantee the classifier's prediction, and minimality, ensuring that no strict subset of those concepts retains this guarantee. Together, these properties yield explanations that are both logically tight and visually coherent. We validate our approach on a visual classification benchmark, demonstrating that OPTIMUS heatmaps naturally and faithfully surface the decision-relevant concepts underlying model predictions.

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