Behavioral Economics Approach to Interpretable Deep Image Classification. Rationally Inattentive Utility Maximization Explains Deep Image Classification

02/09/2021
by   Kunal Pattanayak, et al.
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Are deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for image classification consistent with utility maximization behavior with information acquisition costs? This paper demonstrates the remarkable result that a deep CNN behaves equivalently (in terms of necessary and sufficient conditions) to a rationally inattentive utility maximizer, a model extensively used in behavioral economics to explain human decision making. This implies that a deep CNN has a parsimonious representation in terms of simple intuitive human-like decision parameters, namely, a utility function and an information acquisition cost. Also the reconstructed utility function that rationalizes the decisions of the deep CNNs, yields a useful preference order amongst the image classes (hypotheses).

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