Poster

Missingness Bias in Model Debugging

Saachi Jain · Hadi Salman · Eric Wong · Pengchuan Zhang · Vibhav Vineet · Sai Vemprala · Aleksander Madry

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Abstract:

Missingness, or the absence of features from an input, is a concept fundamental to many model debugging tools. However, in computer vision, pixels cannot simply be removed from an image. One thus tends to resort to heuristics such as blacking out pixels, which may in turn introduce bias into the debugging process. We study such biases and, in particular, show how transformer-based architectures can enable a more natural implementation of missingness, which side-steps these issues and improves the reliability of model debugging in practice.

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