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Conceptual Views of Neural Networks: A Framework for Neuro-Symbolic Analysis

Machine Learning 2026-03-17 v2 Artificial Intelligence Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Abstract

We introduce \emph{conceptual views} as a formal framework grounded in Formal Concept Analysis for globally explaining neural networks. Experiments on twenty-four ImageNet models and Fruits-360 show that these views faithfully represent the original models, enable architecture comparison via Gromov--Wasserstein distance, and support abductive learning of human-comprehensible rules from neurons.

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@article{arxiv.2209.13517,
  title  = {Conceptual Views of Neural Networks: A Framework for Neuro-Symbolic Analysis},
  author = {Johannes Hirth and Tom Hanika},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.13517},
  year   = {2026}
}

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23 pages