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Human-inspired Explanations for Vision Transformers and Convolutional Neural Networks

Panda, Mahadev Prasad, Tiezzi, Matteo, Vilas, Martina, Roig, Gemma, Eskofier, Bjoern M., Zanca, Dario

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

We introduce Foveation-based Explanations (FovEx), a novel human-inspired visual explainability (XAI) method for Deep Neural Networks. Our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on both transformer (on 4 out of 5 metrics) and convolutional models (on 3 out of 5 metrics), demonstrating its versatility. Furthermore, we show the alignment between the explanation map produced by FovEx and human gaze patterns (+14\% in NSS compared to RISE, +203\% in NSS compared to gradCAM), enhancing our confidence in FovEx's ability to close the interpretation gap between humans and machines.