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We implement a visual interpretability method Layer-wise Relevance Propagation (LRP) on top of 3D U-Net trained to perform lesion segmentation on the small dataset of multi-modal images provided by ISLES 2017 competition. We demonstrate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-14 Erico Tjoa , Guo Heng , Lu Yuhao , Cuntai Guan

Graphs are ubiquitous in many applications, such as social networks, knowledge graphs, smart grids, etc.. Graph neural networks (GNN) are the current state-of-the-art for these applications, and yet remain obscure to humans. Explaining the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Yazheng Liu , Xi Zhang , Sihong Xie

Fisher Vector classifiers and Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are popular and successful algorithms for solving image classification problems. However, both are generally considered `black box' predictors as the non-linear transformations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-02 Sebastian Bach , Alexander Binder , Grégoire Montavon , Klaus-Robert Müller , Wojciech Samek

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

Text documents can be described by a number of abstract concepts such as semantic category, writing style, or sentiment. Machine learning (ML) models have been trained to automatically map documents to these abstract concepts, allowing to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Leila Arras , Franziska Horn , Grégoire Montavon , Klaus-Robert Müller , Wojciech Samek

The success of recent Artificial Intelligence (AI) models has been accompanied by the opacity of their internal mechanisms, due notably to the use of deep neural networks. In order to understand these internal mechanisms and explain the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Léo Saulières

Machine learning (ML) model explainability has received growing attention, especially in the area related to model risk and regulations. In this paper, we reviewed and compared some popular ML model explainability methodologies, especially…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Shafie Gholizadeh , Nengfeng Zhou

In the ever-evolving field of Artificial Intelligence, a critical challenge has been to decipher the decision-making processes within the so-called "black boxes" in deep learning. Over recent years, a plethora of methods have emerged,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Karam Dawoud , Wojciech Samek , Peter Eisert , Sebastian Lapuschkin , Sebastian Bosse

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a popular approach for predicting graph structured data. As GNNs tightly entangle the input graph into the neural network structure, common explainable AI approaches are not applicable. To a large extent,…

Vision transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across various visual tasks. However, ViT models suffer from substantial computational and memory requirements, making it challenging to deploy them on resource-constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Navin Ranjan , Andreas Savakis

A large set of the explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) literature is emerging on feature relevance techniques to explain a deep neural network (DNN) output or explaining models that ingest image source data. However, assessing how XAI…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Alexandre Heuillet , Fabien Couthouis , Natalia Díaz-Rodríguez

We investigate the concept of Best Approximation for Feedforward Neural Networks (FNN) and explore their convergence properties through the lens of Random Projection (RPNNs). RPNNs have predetermined and fixed, once and for all, internal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Gianluca Fabiani

Attribution methods aim to explain a neural network's prediction by highlighting the most relevant image areas. A popular approach is to backpropagate (BP) a custom relevance score using modified rules, rather than the gradient. We analyze…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Leon Sixt , Maximilian Granz , Tim Landgraf

The truthfulness of existing explanation methods in authentically elucidating the underlying model's decision-making process has been questioned. Existing methods have deviated from faithfully representing the model, thus susceptible to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Sangyu Han , Yearim Kim , Nojun Kwak

This article examines the application of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) in NLP based fake news detection and compares selected interpretability methods. The work outlines key aspects of disinformation, neural network…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Krzysztof Siwek , Daniel Stankowski , Maciej Stodolski

We propose an approach for early crop classification through identifying important timesteps with eXplainable AI (XAI) methods. Our approach consists of training a baseline crop classification model to carry out layer-wise relevance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Ayshah Chan , Maja Schneider , Marco Körner

The practical application of deep neural networks are still limited by their lack of transparency. One of the efforts to provide explanation for decisions made by artificial intelligence (AI) is the use of saliency or heat maps highlighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Erico Tjoa , Guan Cuntai

The increased use of convolutional neural networks for face recognition in science, governance, and broader society has created an acute need for methods that can show how these 'black box' decisions are made. To be interpretable and useful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Jñani Crawford , Eshed Margalit , Kalanit Grill-Spector , Sonia Poltoratski

Linear Programs (LPs) have been one of the building blocks in machine learning and have championed recent strides in differentiable optimizers for learning systems. While there exist solvers for even high-dimensional LPs, understanding said…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Florian Peter Busch , Matej Zečević , Kristian Kersting , Devendra Singh Dhami

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