Explaining and Interpreting LSTMs

09/25/2019

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by   Leila Arras, et al.

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Johannes Kepler University Linz

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Berlin Institute of Technology (Technische Universität Berlin)

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Fraunhofer

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While neural networks have acted as a strong unifying force in the design of modern AI systems, the neural network architectures themselves remain highly heterogeneous due to the variety of tasks to be solved. In this chapter, we explore how to adapt the Layer-wise Relevance Propagation (LRP) technique used for explaining the predictions of feed-forward networks to the LSTM architecture used for sequential data modeling and forecasting. The special accumulators and gated interactions present in the LSTM require both a new propagation scheme and an extension of the underlying theoretical framework to deliver faithful explanations.