Post-Hoc Uncertainty-Aware Explanations for Deployed Power Quality Disturbance Classifiers via Laplace Approximation
Deep learning classifiers achieve high accuracy in power quality disturbance (PQD) recognition, but existing explanation methods return a single deterministic attribution map and provide no measure of its reliability. This paper develops a post-hoc Bayesian explanation (B-explanation) method for trained PQD classifiers. A computationally efficient Laplace approximation converts the trained network into an approximate parameter posterior without retraining, and occlusion sensitivity is propagated through posterior samples to produce a distribution over disturbance-localization maps. Percentile summaries of this distribution yield explanations with distribution-free coverage bands: consensus summaries at low percentiles sharpen localization significantly for distinctive events such as sags, swells, and oscillatory transients, the band width indicates the reliability of each attribution, and the remaining disturbance types show class-dependent behavior. Explanation dispersion also increases under injected measurement noise and synthetic-to-field transfer, complementing predictive uncertainty. Experiments on a synthetic benchmark of 15 disturbance classes and on field-recorded sags compare the method with Monte Carlo dropout and deep ensembles under a common evaluation protocol, evaluate it against deterministic occlusion, LIME, and SHAP with localization and faithfulness metrics, and characterize the computational cost of explanation generation for grid monitoring applications.
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