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Explaining deep learning models is of vital importance for understanding artificial intelligence systems, improving safety, and evaluating fairness. To better understand and control the CNN model, many methods for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Zhihao Wang , Chuang Zhu

Learning concepts that are consistent with human perception is important for Deep Neural Networks to win end-user trust. Post-hoc interpretation methods lack transparency in the feature representations learned by the models. This work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Sandareka Wickramanayake , Wynne Hsu , Mong Li Lee

Mechanistic interpretability is concerned with analyzing individual components in a (convolutional) neural network (CNN) and how they form larger circuits representing decision mechanisms. These investigations are challenging since CNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Robin Hesse , Jonas Fischer , Simone Schaub-Meyer , Stefan Roth

The success of recent deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) depends on learning hidden representations that can summarize the important factors of variation behind the data. However, CNNs often criticized as being black boxes that lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Bolei Zhou , David Bau , Aude Oliva , Antonio Torralba

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown great success in computer vision, approaching human-level performance when trained for specific tasks via application-specific loss functions. In this paper, we propose a method for augmenting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-15 Austin Stone , Huayan Wang , Michael Stark , Yi Liu , D. Scott Phoenix , Dileep George

In this paper, we propose a generic model transfer scheme to make Convlutional Neural Networks (CNNs) interpretable, while maintaining their high classification accuracy. We achieve this by building a differentiable decision forest on top…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Yilin Wang , Shaozuo Yu , Xiaokang Yang , Wei Shen

Deep CNNs have been pushing the frontier of visual recognition over past years. Besides recognition accuracy, strong demands in understanding deep CNNs in the research community motivate developments of tools to dissect pre-trained models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Bangjie Yin , Luan Tran , Haoxiang Li , Xiaohui Shen , Xiaoming Liu

Interpretability of deep neural networks (DNNs) is essential since it enables users to understand the overall strengths and weaknesses of the models, conveys an understanding of how the models will behave in the future, and how to diagnose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Yinpeng Dong , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Bo Zhang

Visual interpretability of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has gained significant popularity because of the great challenges that CNN complexity imposes to understanding their inner workings. Although many techniques have been proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Alexandros Stergiou

We propose a novel method that trains a conditional Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) to generate visual interpretations of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). To comprehend a CNN, the GAN is trained with information on how the CNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 R T Akash Guna , Raul Benitez , O K Sikha

In this paper we introduce a new problem within the growing literature of interpretability for convolution neural networks (CNNs). While previous work has focused on the question of how to visually interpret CNNs, we ask what it is that we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Sílvia Casacuberta , Esra Suel , Seth Flaxman

Concept-based interpretability for Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) aims to align internal model representations with high-level semantic concepts, but existing approaches largely overlook the semantic roles of individual filters and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Xinyu Mu , Hui Dou , Furao Shen , Jian Zhao

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are known for their excellent feature extraction capabilities to enable the learning of models from data, yet are used as black boxes. An interpretation of the convolutional filtres and associated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Shagufta Henna , Juan Miguel Lopez Alcaraz

The adoption of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models in high-stake domains is hindered by their inability to meet society's demand for transparency in decision-making. So far, a growing number of methodologies have emerged for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 George Dimas , Eirini Cholopoulou , Dimitris K. Iakovidis

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) has been successful in image recognition tasks, and recent works shed lights on how CNN separates different classes with the learned inter-class knowledge through visualization. In this work, we instead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-22 Donglai Wei , Bolei Zhou , Antonio Torrabla , William Freeman

In an attempt to gather a deeper understanding of how convolutional neural networks (CNNs) reason about human-understandable concepts, we present a method to infer labeled concept data from hidden layer activations and interpret the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Conner Chyung , Michael Tsang , Yan Liu

We present an analysis into the inner workings of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for processing text. CNNs used for computer vision can be interpreted by projecting filters into image space, but for discrete sequence inputs CNNs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Alon Jacovi , Oren Sar Shalom , Yoav Goldberg

Interpretability of Deep Neural Networks has become a major area of exploration. Although these networks have achieved state of the art accuracy in many tasks, it is extremely difficult to interpret and explain their decisions. In this work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Akshay Badola , Cherian Roy , Vineet Padmanabhan , Rajendra Lal

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are widely used in fault diagnosis of mechanical systems due to their powerful feature extraction and classification capabilities. However, the CNN is a typical black-box model, and the mechanism of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Qian Chen , Xingjian Dong , Guowei Tu , Dong Wang , Baoxuan Zhao , Zhike Peng

This paper proposes a learning strategy that extracts object-part concepts from a pre-trained convolutional neural network (CNN), in an attempt to 1) explore explicit semantics hidden in CNN units and 2) gradually grow a semantically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Quanshi Zhang , Ruiming Cao , Ying Nian Wu , Song-Chun Zhu