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Concept-based machine learning methods have increasingly gained importance due to the growing interest in making neural networks interpretable. However, concept annotations are generally challenging to obtain, making it crucial to leverage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Alba Carballo-Castro , Sonia Laguna , Moritz Vandenhirtz , Julia E. Vogt

In time-series domains where both predictive performance and interpretability are essential, deep neural networks achieve strong results but provide limited insight into how their predictions are made. Projection-based prototype networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Steven Song , Sahil Sethi , Brett Beaulieu-Jones , Robert L. Grossman

Visual explanation (attention)-guided learning uses not only labels but also explanations to guide model reasoning process. While visual attention-guided learning has shown promising results, it requires a large number of explanation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Yifei Zhang , Siyi Gu , Bo Pan , Guangji Bai , Meikang Qiu , Xiaofeng Yang , Liang Zhao

Part-prototype Networks (ProtoPNets) are concept-based classifiers designed to achieve the same performance as black-box models without compromising transparency. ProtoPNets compute predictions based on similarity to class-specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Andrea Bontempelli , Stefano Teso , Katya Tentori , Fausto Giunchiglia , Andrea Passerini

Despite recent advances in machine learning and explainable AI, a gap remains in personalized preventive healthcare: predictions, interventions, and recommendations should be both understandable and verifiable for all stakeholders in the…

We propose a novel attention model that can accurately attends to target objects of various scales and shapes in images. The model is trained to gradually suppress irrelevant regions in an input image via a progressive attentive process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Paul Hongsuck Seo , Zhe Lin , Scott Cohen , Xiaohui Shen , Bohyung Han

We introduce AttnMod, a training-free technique that modulates cross-attention in pre-trained diffusion models to generate novel, unpromptable art styles. The method is inspired by how a human artist might reinterpret a generated image, for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Shih-Chieh Su

Explaining black-box Artificial Intelligence (AI) models is a cornerstone for trustworthy AI and a prerequisite for its use in safety critical applications such that AI models can reliably assist humans in critical decisions. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Poulami Sinhamahapatra , Lena Heidemann , Maureen Monnet , Karsten Roscher

Recognizing relations between entities is a pivotal task of relational learning. Learning relation representations from distantly-labeled datasets is difficult because of the abundant label noise and complicated expressions in human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Ning Ding , Xiaobin Wang , Yao Fu , Guangwei Xu , Rui Wang , Pengjun Xie , Ying Shen , Fei Huang , Hai-Tao Zheng , Rui Zhang

Intent detection is a crucial component of modern conversational systems, since accurately identifying user intent at the beginning of a conversation is essential for generating effective responses. Recent efforts have focused on studying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Liang Zhang , Yuan Li , Shijie Zhang , Zheng Zhang , Xitong Li

Prototype-based neural networks offer interpretable predictions by comparing inputs to learned, representative signal patterns anchored in training data. While such models have shown promise in the classification of physiological data, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Sahil Sethi , David Chen , Michael C. Burkhart , Nipun Bhandari , Bashar Ramadan , Brett Beaulieu-Jones

The great success of Transformer-based models benefits from the powerful multi-head self-attention mechanism, which learns token dependencies and encodes contextual information from the input. Prior work strives to attribute model decisions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Yaru Hao , Li Dong , Furu Wei , Ke Xu

Utilizing large-scale pretrained models is a well-known strategy to enhance performance on various target tasks. It is typically achieved through fine-tuning pretrained models on target tasks. However, na\"{\i}ve fine-tuning may not fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Seungwon Seo , Suho Lee , Sangheum Hwang

Machine learning techniques have proved useful for classifying and analyzing audio content. However, recent methods typically rely on abstract and high-dimensional representations that are difficult to interpret. Inspired by…

Multi-class classification annotations have significantly advanced AI applications, with truth inference serving as a critical technique for aggregating noisy and biased annotations. Existing state-of-the-art methods typically model each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Ju Chen , Jun Feng , Shenyu Zhang

The state of the art in learning meaningful semantic representations of words is the Transformer model and its attention mechanisms. Simply put, the attention mechanisms learn to attend to specific parts of the input dispensing recurrence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Dongsheng Wang , Casper Hansen , Lucas Chaves Lima , Christian Hansen , Maria Maistro , Jakob Grue Simonsen , Christina Lioma

The lack of explainability of deep learning models limits the adoption of such models in clinical practice. Prototype-based models can provide inherent explainable predictions, but these have predominantly been designed for classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Linde S. Hesse , Nicola K. Dinsdale , Ana I. L. Namburete

Current state-of-the-art reading comprehension models rely heavily on recurrent neural networks. We explored an entirely different approach to question answering: a convolutional model. By their nature, these convolutional models are fast…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Tobin Bell , Benjamin Penchas

When primed with only a handful of training samples, very large, pretrained language models such as GPT-3 have shown competitive results when compared to fully-supervised, fine-tuned, large, pretrained language models. We demonstrate that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Yao Lu , Max Bartolo , Alastair Moore , Sebastian Riedel , Pontus Stenetorp

First derived from human intuition, later adapted to machine translation for automatic token alignment, attention mechanism, a simple method that can be used for encoding sequence data based on the importance score each element is assigned,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Dichao Hu