arXiv Machine Learning By Theresa Dahl Frehr, Francisco Pelayo, Lukas Raad, Alicia Garc\'ia Sanz, Thea Br\"usch, Tommy Sonne Alstr{\o}m

Learnable Time-Frequency Masks for Explaining Time-Series Classifiers

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The paper introduces XACT, a framework that learns sparse attribution masks over coefficients from any invertible time‑frequency transform, such as STFT, continuous wavelet transform, and discrete wavelet transform. XACT extends the virtual inspection layer approach to wavelet transforms, enabling Layer‑wise Relevance Propagation (LRP) to generate explanations in these representations. Experiments on synthetic and two real‑world datasets show that XACT produces precise, sparse, and structured explanations, often outperforming baseline methods in highlighting relevant features.

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