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#1 PR-XAI: PageRank-Based Feature Attribution for Transformers [PDF1] [Copy] [Kimi] [REL]

Authors: Behrooz Azarkhalili, Linyi Li, Maxwell W. Libbrecht

We introduce PR-XAI, a feature attribution method for transformer models based on the PageRank algorithm. The proposed PR-XAI models the attention mechanism as a directed graph, with weights derived from attention weights and their gradients. Evaluations across five well-known text classification datasets and three different architectures show that PR-AG, one variant of PR-XAI, outperforms state-of-the-art attribution methods in faithfulness and classification metrics, with significant gains on long-form text.

Subject: ACL.2026 - Long Papers