Do Explanations Make VQA Models More Predictable To A Human?

November 02, 2018

Abstract

A rich line of research attempts to make deep neural networks more transparent by generating human-interpretable 'explanations' of their decision process, especially for interactive tasks like Visual Question Answering (VQA). In this work, we analyze if existing explanations indeed make a VQA model – its responses as well as failures – more predictable to a human. Surprisingly, we find that they do not. On the other hand, we find that human-in-the-loop approaches that treat the model as a black-box do.

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AUTHORS

Written by

Devi Parikh

Arjun Chandrasekaran

Deshraj Yadav

Prithvijit Chattopadhyay

Viraj Prabhu

Publisher

EMNLP

Research Topics

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Computer Vision

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