The Explainability Illusion: Must ViTs Exhibit Patch-Decoding Interpretability?

arXiv:2610.25289 · cs.CV, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-10-18 · Read on arXiv

cs.CV, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-10-18

Updated: 2026-10-18

Comments: Code can be found in https://ronensc.github.io/Explainability-Illusion/

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Explainability — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes

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