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Background: In cognitive neuroscience the potential of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) for solving complex classification tasks is yet to be fully exploited. The most limiting factor is that DNNs as notorious 'black boxes' do not provide…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-28 Irene Sturm , Sebastian Bach , Wojciech Samek , Klaus-Robert Müller

Deep neural networks have revolutionized numerous research fields and applications. Despite their widespread success, a fundamental limitation known as catastrophic forgetting remains, where models fail to retain their ability to perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Karolina Bogacka , Maximilian Höfler , Maria Ganzha , Wojciech Samek , Katarzyna Wasielewska-Michniewska

Pre-trained Large Language Models (LLMs) encapsulate large amounts of knowledge and take enormous amounts of compute to train. We make use of this resource, together with the observation that LLMs are able to transfer knowledge and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Malcolm L. Wolff , Shenghao Yang , Kari Torkkola , Michael W. Mahoney

Predicting molecular properties is a critical component of drug discovery. Recent advances in deep learning, particularly Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), have enabled end-to-end learning from molecular structures, reducing reliance on manual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Peng Zhou , Lai Hou Tim , Zhixiang Cheng , Kun Xie , Chaoyi Li , Wei Liu , Xiangxiang Zeng

The use of complex networks as a modern approach to understanding the world and its dynamics is well-established in literature. The adjacency matrix, which provides a one-to-one representation of a complex network, can also yield several…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Mariane B. Neiva , Odemir M. Bruno

In current deep network architectures, deeper layers in networks tend to contain hundreds of independent neurons which makes it hard for humans to understand how they interact with each other. By organizing the neurons by correlation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Randy Tan , Naimul Khan , Ling Guan

The dominating NLP paradigm of training a strong neural predictor to perform one task on a specific dataset has led to state-of-the-art performance in a variety of applications (eg. sentiment classification, span-prediction based question…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Paul Michel

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have demonstrated impressive performance in complex machine learning tasks such as image classification or speech recognition. However, due to their multi-layer nonlinear structure, they are not transparent,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Wojciech Samek , Alexander Binder , Grégoire Montavon , Sebastian Bach , Klaus-Robert Müller

We explore a neural network architecture that stacks a recurrent layer and a feedforward layer that is also connected to the input, and compare it to standard Elman and LSTM architectures in terms of accuracy and interpretability. When…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Christian Oliva , Luis F. Lago-Fernández

Deep networks are able to learn highly predictive models of video data. Due to video length, a common strategy is to train them on small video snippets. We apply the deep Taylor / LRP technique to understand the deep network's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Christopher Anders , Grégoire Montavon , Wojciech Samek , Klaus-Robert Müller

An important feature of successful supervised machine learning applications is to be able to explain the predictions given by the regression or classification model being used. However, most state-of-the-art models that have good predictive…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-14 Victor Coscrato , Marco Henrique de Almeida Inácio , Tiago Botari , Rafael Izbicki

Despite the huge success of Long Short-Term Memory networks, their applications in environmental sciences are scarce. We argue that one reason is the difficulty to interpret the internals of trained networks. In this study, we look at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Frederik Kratzert , Mathew Herrnegger , Daniel Klotz , Sepp Hochreiter , Günter Klambauer

In this paper, we consider several compression techniques for the language modeling problem based on recurrent neural networks (RNNs). It is known that conventional RNNs, e.g, LSTM-based networks in language modeling, are characterized with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-09 Artem M. Grachev , Dmitry I. Ignatov , Andrey V. Savchenko

Recommender systems (RS) serve as a fundamental tool for navigating the vast expanse of online information, with deep learning advancements playing an increasingly important role in improving ranking accuracy. Among these, graph neural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Bin Wu , Yihang Wang , Yuanhao Zeng , Jiawei Liu , Jiashu Zhao , Cheng Yang , Yawen Li , Long Xia , Dawei Yin , Chuan Shi

Decomposing a deep neural network's learned representations into interpretable features could greatly enhance its safety and reliability. To better understand features, we adopt a geometric perspective, viewing them as a learned coordinate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Aryeh Brill

The process by which Large Language Models (LLMs) acquire complex capabilities during training remains a key open question in mechanistic interpretability. This project investigates whether these learning dynamics can be characterized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Elisabetta Rocchetti

Large Language Models (LLMs) often exhibit a gap between their internal knowledge and their explicit linguistic outputs. In this report, we empirically investigate whether Looped Transformers (LTs)--architectures that increase computational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Guanxu Chen , Dongrui Liu , Jing Shao

Graphs are an essential data structure utilized to represent relationships in real-world scenarios. Prior research has established that Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) deliver impressive outcomes in graph-centric tasks, such as link prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Xubin Ren , Jiabin Tang , Dawei Yin , Nitesh Chawla , Chao Huang

The Sentence-State LSTM (S-LSTM) is a powerful and high efficient graph recurrent network, which views words as nodes and performs layer-wise recurrent steps between them simultaneously. Despite its successes on text representations, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Yijin Liu , Fandong Meng , Yufeng Chen , Jinan Xu , Jie Zhou

Transformer language models are state of the art in a multitude of NLP tasks. Despite these successes, their opaqueness remains problematic. Recent methods aiming to provide interpretability and explainability to black-box models primarily…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Felix Friedrich , Patrick Schramowski , Christopher Tauchmann , Kristian Kersting