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arXiv · 2022

Neural Activation Patterns (NAPs): Visual Explainability of Learned Concepts

Alex Bäuerle, Daniel Jönsson, and Timo Ropinski

Neural Activation Patterns (NAPs): Visual Explainability of Learned Concepts

Abstract

We introduce VegaProf, the first performance profiler for Vega visualizations. VegaProf effectively instruments the Vega library by associating the declarative specification with its compilation and execution. Using interactive visualizations, VegaProf enables visualization engineers to interactively profile visualization performance at three abstraction levels: function, dataflow graph, and visualization specification.