Papers by Julia R.S. Bursten
Why Attention is Not Explanation: Surgical Intervention and Causal Reasoning about Neural Models (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | a recent study finds brittleness in explanations obtained through attention mechanisms . a philosophy of science theory allows robust yet non-causal reasoning in explanation . |
| Approach: | They propose to use philosophy of science to examine the state-of-the-art in explanation for NLP models . they argue that it is impossible to explain attention-based learning by attention mechanisms . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model selection criteria are based on philosophy of science theories . the proposed model is based upon a model that is more explainable than a classical model . |