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Workshop: NeurIPS 2024 Workshop: Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences

Galaxy Morphology Classification with Counterfactual Explanation

Zhuo Cao · Lena Krieger · Hanno Scharr · Ira Assent


Abstract:

Galaxy morphologies play an essential role in the study of the evolution of galaxies. The determination of morphologies is laborious for a large amount of data giving rise to machine learning-based approaches. Unfortunately, most of these approaches offer no insight into how the model works and make the results difficult to understand and explain. We here propose to extend a classical encoder-decoder architecture with invertible flow, allowing us to not only obtain a good predictive performance but also provide additional information about the decision process with counterfactual explanations.

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