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Missingness Bias in Model Debugging

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arxiv 2204.08945 v2 pith:Q5IOTGRO submitted 2022-04-19 cs.CV cs.AIcs.LG

classification cs.CVcs.AIcs.LG
keywords debuggingmissingnessmodelbiaspixelsabsencearchitecturesavailable
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Missingness, or the absence of features from an input, is a concept fundamental to many model debugging tools. However, in computer vision, pixels cannot simply be removed from an image. One thus tends to resort to heuristics such as blacking out pixels, which may in turn introduce bias into the debugging process. We study such biases and, in particular, show how transformer-based architectures can enable a more natural implementation of missingness, which side-steps these issues and improves the reliability of model debugging in practice. Our code is available at https://github.com/madrylab/missingness

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