This part looks alike this: identifying important parts of explained instances and prototypes

Although prototype-based explanations provide a human-understandable way of representing model predictions they often fail to direct user attention to the most relevant features. We propose a novel approach to identify the most informative features within prototypes, termed alike parts. Using feature importance scores derived from an agnostic explanation method, it emphasizes the most relevant overlapping features between an instance and its nearest prototype. Furthermore, the feature importance score is incorporated into the objective function of the prototype selection algorithms to promote global prototypes diversity. Through experiments on six benchmark datasets, we demonstrate that the proposed approach improves user comprehension while maintaining or even increasing predictive accuracy.

@article{karolczak2025_2505.05597,
  title={ This part looks alike this: identifying important parts of explained instances and prototypes },
  author={ Jacek Karolczak and Jerzy Stefanowski },
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.05597},
  year={ 2025 }
}