Title: Streaming Weak Submodularity: Interpreting Neural Networks on the Fly,
Abstract: In many machine learning applications, it is important to explain the
predictions of a black-box classifier. For example, why does a deep neural
network assign an image to a particular class? We cast interpretability of
black-box classifiers as a combinatorial maximization problem and propose an
efficient streaming algorithm to solve it subject to cardinality constraints.
By extending ideas from Badanidiyuru et al. [2014], we provide a constant
factor approximation guarantee for our algorithm in the case of random stream
order and a weakly submodular objective function. This is the first such
theoretical guarantee for this general class of functions, and we also show
that no such algorithm exists for a worst case stream order. Our algorithm
obtains similar explanations of Inception V3 predictions $10$ times faster than
the state-of-the-art LIME framework of Ribeiro et al. [2016].