How is the colorbar to be interpreted?

[dwil2444]

It is not clear to me what exactly the values on the colorbar indicate. It seems obvious that the higher values indicate more salient regions and vice versa. In the heatmap below:

It is not clear how the value of 0.0016 is to be interpreted for example

[eclique]

We did not analyze the utility of the absolute values in the saliency maps. Technically, they reflect the average class probability when the region is preserved. I'm not sure if they are normalized in the implementation (normalization does not affect the relative saliency values of different regions.)

[dwil2444]

thanks for answering @eclique! I figured as much, I just wanted to get your confirmation. Will close the issue.