@article{isthemmicriterionnecessaryfor, title = {Is the MMI Criterion Necessary for Interpretability? Degenerating Non-causal Features to Plain Noise for Self-Rationalization}, author = {Wei Liu and Zhiying Deng and Zhongyu Niu and Jun Wang and Haozhao Wang and Yuankai Zhang and Ruixuan Li}, year = {2024}, eprint = {2410.06003}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.06003v4}, }