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arXiv:1702.02540cs.CL

Automatic Rule Extraction from Long Short Term Memory Networks

W. James Murdoch, Arthur Szlam

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Although deep learning models have proven effective at solving problems in natural language processing, the mechanism by which they come to their conclusions is often unclear. As a result, these models are generally treated as black boxes, yielding no insight of the underlying learned patterns. In this paper we consider Long Short Term Memory networks (LSTMs) and demonstrate a new approach for tracking the importance of a given input to the LSTM for a given output. By identifying consistently important patterns of words, we are able to distill state of the art LSTMs on sentiment analysis and question answering into a set of representative phrases. This representation is then quantitatively validated by using the extracted phrases to construct a simple, rule-based classifier which approximates the output of the LSTM.

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cs.CLComputation and Language cs.AIArtificial Intelligence cs.NENeural and Evolutionary Computing stat.MLMachine Learning (Statistics)

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