Evaluating Explanations: How Much Do Explanations from the Teacher Aid Students?

AbstractWhile many methods purport to explain predictions by highlighting salient features, what aims these explanations serve and how they ought to be evaluated often go unstated. In this work, we introduce a framework to quantify the value of explanations via the accuracy gains tha...

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Main Authors: Danish Pruthi, Rachit Bansal, Bhuwan Dhingra, Livio Baldini Soares, Michael Collins, Zachary C. Lipton, Graham Neubig, William W. Cohen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The MIT Press 2022-01-01
Series:Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Online Access:https://direct.mit.edu/tacl/article/doi/10.1162/tacl_a_00465/110436/Evaluating-Explanations-How-Much-Do-Explanations