# The elephant in the interpretability room: Why use attention as explanation when we have saliency methods?

> Research article (Proceedings of the Third BlackboxNLP Workshop on Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, 2020) · cited 144× · AI/ML

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