Fuzzy Rule-Based Explainer Systems for Deep Neural Networks: From Local Explainability to Global Understanding

Explainability of deep neural networks has been receiving increasing attention with regard to auditability and trustworthiness purposes. Of the various post-hoc explainability approaches, rule extraction methods assist to understand the logic that underpins their functioning. Whereas the rule-based...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on fuzzy systems 2023-09, Vol.31 (9), p.1-12
Main Authors: Aghaeipoor, Fatemeh, Sabokrou, Mohammad, Fernandez, Alberto
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Artificial neural networks
Attribution Methods
Computational modeling
Data models
Deep learning
Deep Neural Network (DNN)
Electronic mail
eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
Features Importance
Fuzzy logic
Fuzzy Rule-Based Systems
Fuzzy sets
Fuzzy systems
Linguistics
Neural networks
Predictive models
Trustworthy
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Summary:Explainability of deep neural networks has been receiving increasing attention with regard to auditability and trustworthiness purposes. Of the various post-hoc explainability approaches, rule extraction methods assist to understand the logic that underpins their functioning. Whereas the rule-based solutions are directly managed and understood by practitioners, the use of intervals or crisp values in the antecedents that rely on numerical values might not be intuitive enough. In this case, the benefits of a linguistic representation based on fuzzy sets/rules are straightforward, as these semantically meaningful components ease the model understanding. This paper proposes fuzzy rule-based explainer systems for deep neural networks. The algorithm learns a compact yet accurate set of fuzzy rules based on features' importance (i.e., attribution values) distilled from the trained networks. These systems can be used for both local and global explainability purposes. The evaluation results of different applications revealed that the fuzzy explainers maintained the fidelity and accuracy of the original deep neural networks while implying lower complexity and better comprehensibility.
ISSN:1063-6706
1941-0034
DOI:10.1109/TFUZZ.2023.3243935