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The Failures of Marginal Influence-Based Attribution Methods for Global Time Series Explanations

arXiv:2607.16236v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Explainability methods for time series models predominantly produce flat attribution scores: they quantify the direct influence of a feature at a timestamp by a scalar. We prove that the dominant failure mode of such methods is not the scalar format itself but a fundament