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Exclusion and Inclusion -- A model agnostic approach to feature importance in DNNs

13 Jul 2020arXiv:2007.16010archive 2025-07-28

Subhadip Maji, Arijit Ghosh Chowdhury, Raghav Bali, Vamsi M Bhandaru

Deep Neural Networks in NLP have enabled systems to learn complex non-linear relationships. One of the major bottlenecks towards being able to use DNNs for real world applications is their characterization as black boxes. To solve this problem, we introduce a model agnostic algorithm which calculates phrase-wise importance of input features. We contend that our method is generalizable to a diverse set of tasks, by carrying out experiments for both Regression and Classification. We also observe that our approach is robust to outliers, implying that it only captures the essential aspects of the input.

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