SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPATIAL SALIENCY EXPLANATION FOR TIME SERIES MODELS

Example aspects include techniques for spatial saliency explanation for Time Series machine learning models. These techniques may include identifying, based on a token-based importance method, a plurality of tokens of a predefined importance to a machine learning (ML) inference. In addition, the techniques may generating frequency distribution information based on the plurality of tokens of the predefined importance, and generating, based on the frequency distribution information, quantile information for the plurality of tokens of a predefined importance. Further, the techniques may include calculating spatial saliency information based on the frequency distribution information and quantile information, the spatial saliency information including a spatial saliency value for a quantile of the quantile information, and presenting the spatial saliency information via a graphical user interface.