Fix Interpretability Methods target_class_idx

examples/cxr/covid19cxr_tutorial.ipynb

@@ -1339,7 +1339,7 @@
     "    # Input size is inferred automatically from image dimensions\n",
     "    result = chefer_gen.attribute(\n",
     "        interpolate=True,\n",
-    "        class_index=pred_class,\n",
+    "        target_class_idx=pred_class,\n",
     "        **batch\n",
     "    )\n",
     "    attr_map = result[\"image\"]  # Keyed by task schema's feature key\n",

examples/cxr/covid19cxr_tutorial.py

@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@
     # Compute attribution for each class in the prediction set
     overlays = []
     for class_idx in predset_class_indices:
-        attr_map = chefer.attribute(class_index=class_idx, **batch)["image"]
+        attr_map = chefer.attribute(target_class_idx=class_idx, **batch)["image"]
         _, _, overlay = visualize_image_attr(
             image=batch["image"][0],
             attribution=attr_map[0, 0],

examples/cxr/covid19cxr_tutorial_display.py

@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@
     # Compute attribution for each class in the prediction set
     overlays = []
     for class_idx in predset_class_indices:
-        attr_map = chefer.attribute(class_index=class_idx, **batch)["image"]
+        attr_map = chefer.attribute(target_class_idx=class_idx, **batch)["image"]
         _, _, overlay = visualize_image_attr(
             image=batch["image"][0],
             attribution=attr_map[0, 0],

examples/interpretability/custom_sample_filter.py

@@ -0,0 +1,189 @@
+"""Evaluate all interpretability methods on StageNet + MIMIC-IV dataset using comprehensiveness 
+and sufficiency metrics.
+
+This example demonstrates:
+1. Loading a pre-trained StageNet model with processors and MIMIC-IV dataset
+2. Computing attributions with various interpretability methods
+3. Evaluating attribution faithfulness with Comprehensiveness & Sufficiency for each method
+4. Presenting results in a summary table
+"""
+
+import datetime
+import argparse
+
+import torch
+from pyhealth.datasets import MIMIC4Dataset, get_dataloader, split_by_patient
+from pyhealth.interpret.methods import *
+from pyhealth.metrics.interpretability import evaluate_attribution
+from pyhealth.metrics.interpretability.utils import SampleClass
+from pyhealth.models import Transformer
+from pyhealth.tasks import MortalityPredictionStageNetMIMIC4
+from pyhealth.trainer import Trainer
+from pyhealth.datasets.utils import load_processors
+from pathlib import Path
+import pandas as pd
+
+# python -u examples/interpretability/custom_sample_filter.py  --pos_threshold 0.5 --neg_threshold 0.1 --device cuda:2
+def main():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        description="Comma separated list of interpretability methods to evaluate"
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--pos_threshold",
+        type=float,
+        default=None,
+        help="Positive threshold for interpretability evaluation (default: 0.5).",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--neg_threshold",
+        type=float,
+        default=None,
+        help="Negative threshold for interpretability evaluation (default: 0.5).",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--device",
+        type=str,
+        default="cuda:0",
+        help="Device to use for evaluation (default: cuda:0)",
+    )
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    """Main execution function."""
+    print("=" * 70)
+    print("Interpretability Metrics Example: Transformer + MIMIC-IV")
+    print("=" * 70)
+
+    now = datetime.datetime.now()
+    print(f"Start Time: {now.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')}")
+
+    # Set path
+    CACHE_DIR = Path("/home/yongdaf2/interpret/cache/mp_mimic4")
+    CKPTS_DIR = Path("/shared/eng/pyhealth_dka/ckpts/mp_transformer_mimic4")
+    OUTPUT_DIR = Path("/home/yongdaf2/interpret/output/mp_transformer_mimic4")
+    CACHE_DIR.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    CKPTS_DIR.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    OUTPUT_DIR.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    print(f"\nUsing cache dir: {CACHE_DIR}")
+    print(f"Using checkpoints dir: {CKPTS_DIR}")
+    print(f"Using output dir: {OUTPUT_DIR}")
+
+    # Set device
+    device = args.device
+    print(f"\nUsing device: {device}")
+
+    # Load MIMIC-IV dataset
+    print("\n Loading MIMIC-IV dataset...")
+    base_dataset = MIMIC4Dataset(
+        ehr_root="/srv/local/data/physionet.org/files/mimiciv/2.2/",
+        ehr_tables=[
+            "patients",
+            "admissions",
+            "diagnoses_icd",
+            "procedures_icd",
+            "labevents",
+        ],
+        cache_dir=str(CACHE_DIR),
+        num_workers=16,
+    )
+
+    # Apply mortality prediction task
+    if not (CKPTS_DIR / "input_processors.pkl").exists():
+        raise FileNotFoundError(f"Input processors not found in {CKPTS_DIR}. ")
+    if not (CKPTS_DIR / "output_processors.pkl").exists():
+        raise FileNotFoundError(f"Output processors not found in {CKPTS_DIR}. ")
+    input_processors, output_processors = load_processors(str(CKPTS_DIR))
+    print("✓ Loaded input and output processors from checkpoint directory.")
+
+    sample_dataset = base_dataset.set_task(
+        MortalityPredictionStageNetMIMIC4(),
+        num_workers=16,
+        input_processors=input_processors,
+        output_processors=output_processors,
+    )
+    print(f"✓ Loaded {len(sample_dataset)} samples")
+
+    # Split dataset and get test loader
+    _, _, test_dataset = split_by_patient(sample_dataset, [0.9, 0.09, 0.01], seed=233)
+    test_loader = get_dataloader(test_dataset, batch_size=16, shuffle=False)
+    print(f"✓ Test set: {len(test_dataset)} samples")
+
+    # Initialize and load pre-trained model
+    print("\n Loading pre-trained Transformer model...")
+    model = Transformer(
+        dataset=sample_dataset,
+        embedding_dim=128,
+        heads=4,
+        dropout=0.3,
+        num_layers=3,
+    )
+
+    trainer = Trainer(model=model, device=device)
+    trainer.load_ckpt(str(CKPTS_DIR / "best.ckpt"))
+    model = model.to(device)
+    model.eval()
+    print(f"✓ Loaded checkpoint: {CKPTS_DIR / 'best.ckpt'}")
+    print(f"✓ Model moved to {device}")
+
+    pos_threshold = args.pos_threshold
+    neg_threshold = args.neg_threshold
+    def sample_filter_fn(
+        y_probs: torch.Tensor,
+        classifier_type: str,
+    ) -> torch.Tensor:
+        """
+        Custom sample filter function that classifies samples based on
+        positive and negative probability thresholds.
+
+        negative samples: 0 < y_probs < neg_threshold
+        ignored samples: neg_threshold <= y_probs < pos_threshold
+        positive samples: y_probs >= pos_threshold
+        """
+        nonlocal pos_threshold, neg_threshold
+        batch_size = y_probs.shape[0]
+        result = torch.full(
+            (batch_size,),
+            SampleClass.POSITIVE,
+            dtype=torch.long,
+            device=y_probs.device,
+        )
+        if classifier_type in ("binary", "multilabel"):
+            if pos_threshold is not None:
+                result[y_probs < pos_threshold] = SampleClass.IGNORE
+            if neg_threshold is not None:
+                result[y_probs < neg_threshold] = SampleClass.NEGATIVE
+        return result
+
+    interpreter = IntegratedGradients(model, use_embeddings=True)
+    print(f"\nEvaluating using Integrated Gradients...")
+
+    # Option 1: Functional API (simple one-off evaluation)
+    print("\nEvaluating with Functional API on full dataset...")
+    print("Using: evaluate_attribution(model, dataloader, method, ...)")
+
+    results_functional = evaluate_attribution(
+        model,
+        test_loader,
+        interpreter,
+        metrics=["comprehensiveness", "sufficiency"],
+        percentages=[25, 50, 99],
+        sample_filter=sample_filter_fn,
+    )
+
+    print("\n" + "=" * 70)
+    print("Dataset-Wide Results (Functional API)")
+    print("=" * 70)
+    comp = results_functional["comprehensiveness"]
+    suff = results_functional["sufficiency"]
+    print(f"\nComprehensiveness: {comp:.4f}")
+    print(f"Sufficiency:       {suff:.4f}")
+
+    print("")
+    print("=" * 70)
+    print("Summary of Results for All Methods")
+    print({"Method": "Integrated Gradients", "Comprehensiveness": comp, "Sufficiency": suff})
+
+    end = datetime.datetime.now()
+    print(f"End Time: {end.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')}")
+    print(f"Total Duration: {end - now}")
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

pyhealth/interpret/methods/base_interpreter.py

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 """
 
 from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
-from typing import Dict, cast
+from typing import Dict, Optional, cast
 
 import torch
 import torch.nn as nn
@@ -138,8 +138,12 @@ def attribute(
                   by the task's ``input_schema``.
                 - Label key (optional): Ground truth labels, may be needed
                   by some methods for loss computation.
-                - ``class_index`` (optional): Target class for attribution.
-                  If not provided, uses the predicted class.
+                - ``target_class_idx`` (Optional[int]): Target class for
+                  attribution. For binary classification (single logit
+                  output), this is a no-op because there is only one
+                  output. For multi-class or multi-label classification,
+                  specifies which class index to explain. If not provided,
+                  uses the argmax of logits.
                 - Additional method-specific parameters (e.g., ``baseline``,
                   ``steps``, ``interpolate``).
 
@@ -207,6 +211,42 @@ def attribute(
         """
         pass
 
+    def _resolve_target_indices(
+        self,
+        logits: torch.Tensor,
+        target_class_idx: Optional[int],
+    ) -> torch.Tensor:
+        """Resolve target class indices for attribution.
+
+        Returns a ``[batch]`` tensor of class indices identifying which
+        logit to explain.  All prediction modes share this single code
+        path:
+
+        * **Binary** (single logit): ``target_class_idx`` is a no-op
+          because there is only one output.  Always returns zeros
+          (index 0).
+        * **Multi-class / multi-label**: uses ``target_class_idx`` if
+          given, otherwise the argmax of logits.
+
+        Args:
+            logits: Model output logits, shape ``[batch, num_classes]``.
+            target_class_idx: Optional user-specified class index.
+
+        Returns:
+            ``torch.LongTensor`` of shape ``[batch]``.
+        """
+        if logits.shape[-1] == 1:
+            # Single logit output — nothing to select.
+            return torch.zeros(
+                logits.shape[0], device=logits.device, dtype=torch.long,
+            )
+        if target_class_idx is not None:
+            return torch.full(
+                (logits.shape[0],), target_class_idx,
+                device=logits.device, dtype=torch.long,
+            )
+        return logits.argmax(dim=-1)
+
     def _prediction_mode(self) -> str:
         """Resolve the prediction mode from the model. 
 

pyhealth/interpret/methods/chefer.py

@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ class CheferRelevance(BaseInterpreter):
         >>> print(attributions["conditions"].shape)  # [batch, num_tokens]
         >>>
         >>> # Optional: attribute to a specific class (e.g., class 1)
-        >>> attributions = interpreter.attribute(class_index=1, **batch)
+        >>> attributions = interpreter.attribute(target_class_idx=1, **batch)
     """
 
     def __init__(self, model: BaseModel):
@@ -139,14 +139,16 @@ def __init__(self, model: BaseModel):
 
     def attribute(
         self,
-        class_index: Optional[int] = None,
+        target_class_idx: Optional[int] = None,
         **data,
     ) -> Dict[str, torch.Tensor]:
         """Compute relevance scores for each input token.
 
         Args:
-            class_index: Target class index to compute attribution for.
-                If None (default), uses the model's predicted class.
+            target_class_idx: Target class index to compute attribution for.
+                If None (default), uses the argmax of model output.
+                For binary classification (single logit output), this is
+                a no-op because there is only one output.
             **data: Input data from dataloader batch containing feature
                 keys and label key.
 
@@ -163,15 +165,10 @@ def attribute(
             self.model.set_attention_hooks(False)
 
         # --- 2. Backward from target class ---
-        if class_index is None:
-            class_index_t = torch.argmax(logits, dim=-1)
-        elif isinstance(class_index, int):
-            class_index_t = torch.tensor(class_index)
-        else:
-            class_index_t = class_index
+        target_indices = self._resolve_target_indices(logits, target_class_idx)
 
         one_hot = F.one_hot(
-            class_index_t.detach().clone(), logits.size(1)
+            target_indices.detach().clone(), logits.size(1)
         ).float()
         one_hot = one_hot.requires_grad_(True)
         scalar = torch.sum(one_hot.to(logits.device) * logits)