Do explanations make VQA models more predictable to a human?

Arjun Chandrasekaran, Viraj Prabhu, Deshraj Yadav, Prithvijit Chattopadhyay, Devi Parikh


Abstract
A rich line of research attempts to make deep neural networks more transparent by generating human-interpretable ‘explanations’ of their decision process, especially for interactive tasks like Visual Question Answering (VQA). In this work, we analyze if existing explanations indeed make a VQA model — its responses as well as failures — more predictable to a human. Surprisingly, we find that they do not. On the other hand, we find that human-in-the-loop approaches that treat the model as a black-box do.
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D18-1128
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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October-November
Year:
2018
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Brussels, Belgium
Editors:
Ellen Riloff, David Chiang, Julia Hockenmaier, Jun’ichi Tsujii
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EMNLP
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SIGDAT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1036–1042
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https://aclanthology.org/D18-1128
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D18-1128
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Arjun Chandrasekaran, Viraj Prabhu, Deshraj Yadav, Prithvijit Chattopadhyay, and Devi Parikh. 2018. Do explanations make VQA models more predictable to a human?. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 1036–1042, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Do explanations make VQA models more predictable to a human? (Chandrasekaran et al., EMNLP 2018)
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Visual Question Answering