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Intrinsic Concept Extraction Based on Compositional Interpretability

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026-04-13 v2

Abstract

Unsupervised Concept Extraction aims to extract concepts from a single image; however, existing methods suffer from the inability to extract composable intrinsic concepts. To address this, this paper introduces a new task called Compositional and Interpretable Intrinsic Concept Extraction (CI-ICE). The CI-ICE task aims to leverage diffusion-based text-to-image models to extract composable object-level and attribute-level concepts from a single image, such that the original concept can be reconstructed through the combination of these concepts. To achieve this goal, we propose a method called HyperExpress, which addresses the CI-ICE task through two core aspects. Specifically, first, we propose a concept learning approach that leverages the inherent hierarchical modeling capability of hyperbolic space to achieve accurate concept disentanglement while preserving the hierarchical structure and relational dependencies among concepts; second, we introduce a concept-wise optimization method that maps the concept embedding space to maintain complex inter-concept relationships while ensuring concept composability. Our method demonstrates outstanding performance in extracting compositionally interpretable intrinsic concepts from a single image.

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@article{arxiv.2603.11795,
  title  = {Intrinsic Concept Extraction Based on Compositional Interpretability},
  author = {Hanyu Shi and Hong Tao and Guoheng Huang and Jianbin Jiang and Xuhang Chen and Chi-Man Pun and Shanhu Wang and Pan Pan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.11795},
  year   = {2026}
}

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Accepted by CVPR 2026