NeurIPS2024
Testing Semantic Importance via Betting
Jacopo Teneggi, Jeremias Sulam
Abstract
Recent works have extended notions of feature importance to semantic concepts that are inherently interpretable to the users interacting with a black-box predictive model. Yet, precise statistical guarantees such as false positive rate and false discovery rate control are needed to communicate findings transparently, and to avoid unintended consequences in real-world scenarios. In this paper, we formalize the global (i