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E-TCAV: Efficient Concept-Based Neural Network Interpretability

ai-technology · 2026-05-12

Researchers introduce E-TCAV, a framework for efficient approximation of TCAV (Testing with Concept Activation Vectors) scores, addressing computational overhead, inter-layer disagreement, and statistical instability. The method is based on investigation of latent classifiers, inter-layer agreement, and using the penultimate layer as a fast proxy. Evaluations span four architectures and five datasets.

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  • TCAV assesses alignment between neural network internal representations and human-understandable concepts.
  • E-TCAV aims to reduce computational overhead of TCAV.
  • E-TCAV addresses inter-layer disagreement of TCAV scores.
  • E-TCAV uses the penultimate layer as a fast proxy for earlier layers.
  • Evaluations conducted across four architectures and five datasets.

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