arxivcs.CV2026-07-07
A Good Initialization is All You Need for Faithful Visual Attribution
Zihan Gu, Jiayu Wang, Hua Zhang, Yue Hu
Faithful visual attribution identifies which image regions support a model prediction. Search-based perturbation methods lead the insertion--deletion faithfulness frontier by masking regions and measuring score changes, but they usually output a complete ordering of all regions.…