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arXiv Machine Learning By Christopher Buratti, Michele Marchetti, Federica Parlapiano, Davide Traini, Domenico Ursino, Luca Virgili

Gradient-Skipping Relevance Propagation for Efficient Explainability of Vision Transformers

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arXiv:2607. 10365v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision Transformers (ViTs) are difficult to interpret because current methods of relevance propagation and attention flow do not fully consider some key architectural features, such as the uneven importance of attention heads and residual connections.

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