Poster
Listen to Interpret: Post-hoc Interpretability for Audio Networks with NMF
Jayneel Parekh · Sanjeel Parekh · Pavlo Mozharovskyi · Florence d'Alché-Buc · Gaël Richard
Hall J (level 1) #637
Keywords: [ Non-negative Matrix Factorization ] [ audio interpretability ] [ post-hoc explainability ] [ audio recognition ]
This paper tackles post-hoc interpretability for audio processing networks. Our goal is to interpret decisions of a trained network in terms of high-level audio objects that are also listenable for the end-user. To this end, we propose a novel interpreter design that incorporates non-negative matrix factorization (NMF). In particular, a regularized interpreter module is trained to take hidden layer representations of the targeted network as input and produce time activations of pre-learnt NMF components as intermediate outputs. Our methodology allows us to generate intuitive audio-based interpretations that explicitly enhance parts of the input signal most relevant for a network's decision. We demonstrate our method's applicability on popular benchmarks, including a real-world multi-label classification task.