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Recursive neural networks (RvNN) have been shown useful for learning sentence representations and helped achieve competitive performance on several natural language inference tasks. However, recent RvNN-based models fail to learn simple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Atul Sahay , Ayush Maheshwari , Ritesh Kumar , Ganesh Ramakrishnan , Manjesh Kumar Hanawal , Kavi Arya

In this work, we propose a simple but effective method to interpret black-box machine learning models globally. That is, we use a compact binary tree, the interpretation tree, to explicitly represent the most important decision rules that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Chengliang Yang , Anand Rangarajan , Sanjay Ranka

Large-scale foundation models demonstrate strong performance across language, vision, and reasoning tasks. However, how they internally structure and stabilize concepts remains elusive. Inspired by causal inference, we introduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Bowei Tian , Yexiao He , Wanghao Ye , Ziyao Wang , Meng Liu , Ang Li

The thesis explores the role machine learning methods play in creating intuitive computational models of neural processing. Combined with interpretability techniques, machine learning could replace human modeler and shift the focus of human…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-10-20 Ilya Kuzovkin

Aspect-level sentiment classification aims to identify the sentiment polarity towards a specific aspect term in a sentence. Most current approaches mainly consider the semantic information by utilizing attention mechanisms to capture the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Xiaochen Hou , Jing Huang , Guangtao Wang , Xiaodong He , Bowen Zhou

Our main contribution is to show that the behaviour of kernels across multiple layers of a convolutional neural network can be approximated using a logic program. The extracted logic programs yield accuracies that correlate with those of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Joe Townsend , Theodoros Kasioumis , Hiroya Inakoshi

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL), through learning policies or values represented by neural networks, has successfully addressed many complex control problems. However, the neural networks introduced by DRL lack interpretability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Zeyu Jiang , Hai Huang , Xingquan Zuo

Concept-Based Models (CBMs) are a class of deep learning models that provide interpretability by explaining predictions through high-level concepts. These models first predict concepts and then use them to perform a downstream task.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 David Debot , Pietro Barbiero , Gabriele Dominici , Giuseppe Marra

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have succeeded remarkably in various computer vision tasks. However, they are not intrinsically explainable. While the feature-level understanding of CNNs reveals where the models looked, concept-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Ugochukwu Ejike Akpudo , Yongsheng Gao , Jun Zhou , Andrew Lewis

Sentiment analysis is known as one of the most crucial tasks in the field of natural language processing and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is one of those prominent models that is commonly used for this aim. Although convolutional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Hossein Sadr , Mozhdeh Nazari Solimandarabi , Mir Mohsen Pedram , Mohammad Teshnehlab

In this paper we propose and study the novel problem of explaining node embeddings by finding embedded human interpretable subspaces in already trained unsupervised node representation embeddings. We use an external knowledge base that is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Maximilian Idahl , Megha Khosla , Avishek Anand

Real artificial intelligence always has been focused on by many machine learning researchers, especially in the area of deep learning. However deep neural network is hard to be understood and explained, and sometimes, even metaphysics. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Jinwei Zhao , Qizhou Wang , Fuqiang Zhang , Wanli Qiu , Yufei Wang , Yu Liu , Guo Xie , Weigang Ma , Bin Wang , Xinhong Hei

One of the current key challenges in Explainable AI is in correctly interpreting activations of hidden neurons. It seems evident that accurate interpretations thereof would provide insights into the question what a deep learning system has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Abhilekha Dalal , Md Kamruzzaman Sarker , Adrita Barua , Pascal Hitzler

With the advent of highly predictive but opaque deep learning models, it has become more important than ever to understand and explain the predictions of such models. Existing approaches define interpretability as the inverse of complexity…

Using attention weights to identify information that is important for models' decision-making is a popular approach to interpret attention-based neural networks. This is commonly realized in practice through the generation of a heat-map for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Tian Shi , Xuchao Zhang , Ping Wang , Chandan K. Reddy

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been successfully used in a range of tasks. However, CNNs are often viewed as "black-box" and lack of interpretability. One main reason is due to the filter-class entanglement -- an intricate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Haoyu Liang , Zhihao Ouyang , Yuyuan Zeng , Hang Su , Zihao He , Shu-Tao Xia , Jun Zhu , Bo Zhang

Deep learning models for natural language processing (NLP) are inherently complex and often viewed as black box in nature. This paper develops an approach for interpreting convolutional neural networks for text classification problems by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Wei Zhao , Rahul Singh , Tarun Joshi , Agus Sudjianto , Vijayan N. Nair

Recently, a series of studies have tried to extract interactions between input variables modeled by a DNN and define such interactions as concepts encoded by the DNN. However, strictly speaking, there still lacks a solid guarantee whether…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Mingjie Li , Quanshi Zhang

What does a neural network encode about a concept as we traverse through the layers? Interpretability in machine learning is undoubtedly important, but the calculations of neural networks are very challenging to understand. Attempts to see…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Zhi Chen , Yijie Bei , Cynthia Rudin

Decision trees are ubiquitous in machine learning for their ease of use and interpretability. Yet, these models are not typically employed in reinforcement learning as they cannot be updated online via stochastic gradient descent. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Andrew Silva , Taylor Killian , Ivan Dario Jimenez Rodriguez , Sung-Hyun Son , Matthew Gombolay
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