Debunking Grad-ECLIP: A Comprehensive Study on Its Incorrectness and Fundamental Principles for Model Interpretation

ArXi:2605.12952v1 Announce Type: new Grad-ECLIP is First, this paper nstrates that the intermediate features-based technical route is not a novel one. Based on the existing attention-based route, we have developed Attention-ECLIP, which is completely equivalent to Grad-ECLIP but with simpler computation. Both through formal derivation and experimental validation, we prove that the intermediate feature-based route represented by Grad-ECLIP is actually an equivalent variant of the attention-based route. Next, this paper nstrates that the Grad-ECLIP method is flawed.