Error-Margin Analysis for Hidden Neuron Activation Labels

Understanding how high-level concepts are represented within artificial neural networks is a fundamental challenge in the field of artificial intelligence. While existing literature in explainable AI emphasizes the importance of labeling neurons with concepts to understand their functioning, they mostly focus on identifying what stimulus activates a neuron in most cases; this corresponds to the notion of recall in information retrieval. We argue that this is only the first-part of a two-part job; it is imperative to also investigate neuron responses to other stimuli, i.e., their precision. We call this the neuron label’s error margin.