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Robust explainer recommendation for time series classification.

Thu Trang Nguyen¹, Thach Le Nguyen¹, Georgiana Ifrim¹

¹School of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.

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Evaluating time series explanation methods is crucial for understanding models. This study introduces a novel framework to quantitatively rank and recommend the best explanation method for time series classification tasks.

Keywords:

Explainable AI Explanation recommendation Time series classification Trustworthy AI

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Area of Science:

Machine Learning
Data Science
Time Series Analysis

Background:

Time series classification is vital in fields like human activity recognition and sports analytics.
Explainability is increasingly important for understanding time series data and classification models.
Existing explanation techniques produce saliency maps that can conflict, creating uncertainty about their reliability.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce a novel framework for quantitatively evaluating and ranking explanation methods in time series classification.
To enable robust comparison of different explanation techniques and recommend the most suitable one for a given dataset.
To address the challenge of conflicting saliency maps from various explanation methods.

Main Methods:

Proposing AMEE (Model-Agnostic Explanation Evaluation), a framework for recommending saliency-based explanations.
Utilizing data perturbation guided by explanations to assess their informativeness and impact on classification accuracy.
Aggregating accuracy loss across diverse perturbations and classifiers for robust evaluation.

Main Results:

Perturbing discriminative time series segments identified by explanations significantly alters classification accuracy.
The AMEE framework successfully ranks explanation methods, outperforming random and oracle baselines.
Demonstrated effectiveness across synthetic, diverse time-series datasets, and a real-world case study.

Conclusions:

The proposed AMEE framework provides a robust method for evaluating and selecting explanation techniques for time series classification.
Quantitative evaluation of explanation methods is feasible and essential for reliable model interpretability.
This work facilitates the selection of optimal explainers, enhancing trust and understanding in time series classification models.