Upcoming Events
Past Events
2019-10-27 Talk at ICCV 2019 Workshop on Interpretating and Explaining Visual AI Models in Seoul, Korea
2019-07-23 Tutorial on "Interpretable & Transparent Deep Learning" at EMBC 2019 in Berlin, Germany
2019-06-16 Talk at CVPR 2019 Workshop on Explainable AI in Long Beach, CA, USA
2018-10-12 Keynote at the 2018 International Explainable AI Symposium in Seoul, Korea
2018-10-07 Tutorial on "Interpretable Deep Learning: Towards Understanding & Explaining Deep Neural Networks" at ICIP 2018 in Athens, Greece
2018-09-16 Tutorial on "Interpretable Machine Learning" at MICCAI 2018 in Granada, Spain
2018-06-18 Tutorial on "Interpreting and Explaining Deep Models in Computer Vision" at CVPR 2018 in Salt Lake City, USA
2017-12-09 Workshop on "Interpreting, Explaining and Visualizing Deep Learning" at NIPS 2017 in Long Beach, CA
2017-12-04 Tutorial on "Understanding Deep Neural Networks and their Predictions" at WIFS 2017 in Rennes, France
2017-11-30 Talk at the CoSIP Intense Course on Deep Learning in Berlin, Germany
2017-09-12 Tutorial on "Interpretable Machine Learning" at GCPR 2017 in Basel, Switzerland
2017-08-28 Class on "Interpretable ML" at DTU Summer School on Advanced Topics in Machine Learning in Copenhagen, Denmark
2017-03-20 Demonstration at CeBIT 2017 in Hannover, Germany
2017-03-05 Tutorial at ICASSP 2017 on "Methods for Interpreting and Understanding Deep Neural Networks" in New Orleans, USA
2016-12-09 Presentation at the NIPS 2016 Workshop on Interpretable ML for Complex Systems in Barcelona, Spain
2016-11-24 ACCV 2016 Workshop on Interpretation and Visualization of Deep Neural Nets in Taipei, Taiwan
2016-09-26 The LRP Toolbox presented at the ICIP Visual Technology Showcase in Phoenix, Arizona
2016-09-06 ICANN 2016 Workshop on Machine Learning and Interpretability in Barcelona, Spain

This webpage aims to regroup publications and software produced as part of a joint project at Fraunhofer HHI, TU Berlin and SUTD Singapore on developing new method to understand nonlinear predictions of state-of-the-art machine learning models.

Machine learning models, in particular deep neural networks (DNNs), are characterized by very high predictive power, but in many case, are not easily interpretable by a human. Interpreting a nonlinear classifier is important to gain trust into the prediction, and to identify potential data selection biases or artefacts.

The project studies in particular techniques to decompose the prediction in terms of contributions of individual input variables such that the produced decomposition (i.e. explanation) can be visualized in the same way as the input data.

Interactive LRP Demos

Draw a handwritten digit and see the heatmap being formed in real-time. Create your own heatmap for natural images or text. These demos are based on the Layer-wise Relevance Propagation (LRP) technique by Bach et al. (2015).


MNIST: A simple LRP demo based on a neural network that predicts handwritten digits and was trained using the MNIST data set.

Caffe: A more complex LRP demo based on a neural network implemented using Caffe. The neural network predicts the contents of the picture.

Text: A LRP demo that explains classification on natural language. The neural network predicts the type of document.

How and Why LRP ?

Layer-wise Relevance Propagation (LRP) is a method that identifies important pixels by running a backward pass in the neural network. The backward pass is a conservative relevance redistribution procedure, where neurons that contribute the most to the higher-layer receive most relevance from it. The LRP procedure is shown graphically in the figure below.

The method can be easily implemented in most programming languages and integrated to existing neural network frameworks. The propagation rules used by LRP can for many architectures, including deep rectifier networks or LSTMs, be understood as a Deep Taylor Decomposition of the prediction.

LRP Software

Tutorials

Publications

Edited Books

Highlight Papers

Tutorial / Overview Papers

Methods Papers

Explaining Unsupervised Learning

Evaluation of Explanations

Software Papers

Application to Sciences

Application to Text

Application to Images & Faces

Application to Video

Application to Speech


Downloads

BVLC Model Zoo Contributions