Extending Explainable Boosting Machines to Scientific Image Data

Published

November 30, 2023

Author(s)

Daniel Schug, Sai Yerramreddy, Rich Caruana, Craig Greenberg, Justyna Zwolak

Abstract

As the deployment of computer vision technology becomes increasingly common in science, the need for explanations of the system and its output has become a focus of great concern. Driven by the pressing need for interpretable models in science, we propose the use of Explainable Boosting Machines (EBMs) for scientific image data. Inspired by an important application underpinning the development of quantum technologies, we apply EBMs to cold-atom soliton image data tabularized using Gabor Wavelet Transform-based techniques that preserve the spatial structure of the data. In doing so, we demonstrate the use of EBMs for image data for the first time and show that our approach provides explanations that are consistent with human intuition about the data.

Proceedings Title

Proceedings of the Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences Workshop, NeurIPS 2023

Conference Dates

December 10-16, 2023

Conference Location

New Orleans, LA, US

Conference Title

Workshop on Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences

Pub Type

Conferences

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Keywords

explainable boosting machines for image data, scientific data, explainable image processing, physics, Bose-Einstein Condensates

Citation

Schug, D. , Yerramreddy, S. , Caruana, R. , Greenberg, C. and Zwolak, J. (2023), Extending Explainable Boosting Machines to Scientific Image Data, Proceedings of the Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences Workshop, NeurIPS 2023 , New Orleans, LA, US, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=936910 (Accessed October 7, 2025)