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Recent neural IR models have demonstrated deep learning's utility in ad-hoc information retrieval. However, deep models have a reputation for being black boxes, and the roles of a neural IR model's components may not be obvious at first…

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Monumental advances in deep learning have led to unprecedented achievements across various domains. While the performance of deep neural networks is indubitable, the architectural design and interpretability of such models are nontrivial.…

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It has been observed that deep neural networks (DNNs) often use both genuine as well as spurious features. In this work, we propose "Amending Inherent Interpretability via Self-Supervised Masking" (AIM), a simple yet interestingly effective…

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The ability to describe images with natural language sentences is the hallmark for image and language understanding. Such a system has wide ranging applications such as annotating images and using natural sentences to search for images.In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-15 Afroze Ibrahim Baqapuri

Despite numerous successes in Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL), the learned policies are not interpretable. Moreover, since DRL does not exploit symbolic relational representations, it has difficulties in coping with structural changes in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Rishi Hazra , Luc De Raedt

Neural networks are becoming a popular tool for solving many real-world problems such as object recognition and machine translation, thanks to its exceptional performance as an end-to-end solution. However, neural networks are complex…

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Text retrieval is a long-standing research topic on information seeking, where a system is required to return relevant information resources to user's queries in natural language. From classic retrieval methods to learning-based ranking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Wayne Xin Zhao , Jing Liu , Ruiyang Ren , Ji-Rong Wen

Image search stands as a pivotal task in multimedia and computer vision, finding applications across diverse domains, ranging from internet search to medical diagnostics. Conventional image search systems operate by accepting textual or…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Hongyi Zhu , Jia-Hong Huang , Stevan Rudinac , Evangelos Kanoulas

Due to the widespread use of complex machine learning models in real-world applications, it is becoming critical to explain model predictions. However, these models are typically black-box deep neural networks, explained post-hoc via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Filip Radenovic , Abhimanyu Dubey , Dhruv Mahajan

Concurrent to the rapid progress in the development of neural-network based models in areas like natural language processing and computer vision, the need for creating explanations for the predictions of these black-box models has risen…

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The ad-hoc retrieval task is to rank related documents given a query and a document collection. A series of deep learning based approaches have been proposed to solve such problem and gained lots of attention. However, we argue that they…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Xueli Yu , Weizhi Xu , Zeyu Cui , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are being increasingly used to make predictions from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data. However, they are widely seen as uninterpretable "black boxes", as it can be difficult to discover what…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Patrick McClure , Dustin Moraczewski , Ka Chun Lam , Adam Thomas , Francisco Pereira

Reranking is a critical stage in contemporary information retrieval (IR) systems, improving the relevance of the user-presented final results by honing initial candidate sets. This paper is a thorough guide to examine the changing reranker…

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Deep learning has achieved remarkable success across many domains, but it has also created a growing demand for interpretability in model predictions. Although many explainable machine learning methods have been proposed, post-hoc…

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The ability of neural networks to perform robotic perception and control tasks such as depth and optical flow estimation, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), and automatic control has led to their widespread adoption in recent…

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This literature review will discuss the use of deep learning methods for image reconstruction using fMRI data. More specifically, the quality of image reconstruction will be determined by the choice in decoding and reconstruction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Madison Van Horn

Recently, the emergence of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized the paradigm of information retrieval (IR) applications, especially in web search, by generating vast amounts of human-like texts on the Internet. As a result, IR…

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The period from 2019 to the present marks one of the most significant paradigm shifts in information retrieval (IR) and natural language processing (NLP), culminating in the emergence of powerful large language models (LLMs) from 2022…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zhichao Xu , Fengran Mo , Zhiqi Huang , Crystina Zhang , Puxuan Yu , Bei Wang , Jimmy Lin , Vivek Srikumar

Interpretability in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) is crucial for trust, debugging, and decision-making in high-stakes applications. We introduce PixelSHAP, a model-agnostic framework extending Shapley-based analysis to structured visual…

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