no code implementations • 7 Dec 2023 • Wei Liu, Haozhao Wang, Jun Wang, Zhiying Deng, Yuankai Zhang, Cheng Wang, Ruixuan Li
Rationalization empowers deep learning models with self-explaining capabilities through a cooperative game, where a generator selects a semantically consistent subset of the input as a rationale, and a subsequent predictor makes predictions based on the selected rationale.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2023 • Wei Liu, Jun Wang, Haozhao Wang, Ruixuan Li, Zhiying Deng, Yuankai Zhang, Yang Qiu
Instead of attempting to rectify the issues of the MMI criterion, we propose a novel criterion to uncover the causal rationale, termed the Minimum Conditional Dependence (MCD) criterion, which is grounded on our finding that the non-causal features and the target label are \emph{d-separated} by the causal rationale.