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Traditional neural machine translation is limited to the topmost encoder layer's context representation and cannot directly perceive the lower encoder layers. Existing solutions usually rely on the adjustment of network architecture, making…

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Despite the state-of-the-art performance of deep convolutional neural networks, they are susceptible to bias and malfunction in unseen situations. Moreover, the complex computation behind their reasoning is not human-understandable to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Rassa Ghavami Modegh , Ahmad Salimi , Alireza Dizaji , Hamid R. Rabiee

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have exhibited great performance in discriminative feature learning for complex visual tasks. Besides discrimination power, interpretability is another important yet under-explored property for CNNs. One…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Wengang Guo , Jiayi Yang , Huilin Yin , Qijun Chen , Wei Ye

The goal of this work is to bring semantics into the tasks of text recognition and retrieval in natural images. Although text recognition and retrieval have received a lot of attention in recent years, previous works have focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Albert Gordo , Jon Almazan , Naila Murray , Florent Perronnin

Empirical evidence shows that deep vision networks often represent concepts as directions in latent space with concept information written along directional components in the vector representation of the input. However, the mechanism to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Alexandros Doumanoglou , Kurt Driessens , Dimitrios Zarpalas

Models for image representation learning are typically designed for either recognition or generation. Various forms of contrastive learning help models learn to convert images to embeddings that are useful for classification, detection, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Matthew Gwilliam , Xiao Wang , Xuefeng Hu , Zhenheng Yang

Concept probing has recently gained popularity as a way for humans to peek into what is encoded within artificial neural networks. In concept probing, additional classifiers are trained to map the internal representations of a model into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Manuel de Sousa Ribeiro , Afonso Leote , João Leite

Masking strategies commonly employed in natural language processing are still underexplored in vision tasks such as concept learning, where conventional methods typically rely on full images. However, using masked images diversifies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Yuwei Sun , Lu Mi , Ippei Fujisawa , Ruiqiao Mei , Jimin Chen , Siyu Zhu , Ryota Kanai

To interpret deep models' predictions, attention-based visual cues are widely used in addressing \textit{why} deep models make such predictions. Beyond that, the current research community becomes more interested in reasoning \textit{how}…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Wenxiao Xiao , Zhengming Ding , Hongfu Liu

Absence of nearby light sources while capturing an image will degrade the visibility and quality of the captured image, making computer vision tasks difficult. In this paper, a color-wise attention network (CWAN) is proposed for low-light…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Yousef Atoum , Mao Ye , Liu Ren , Ying Tai , Xiaoming Liu

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved superior accuracy in many visual related tasks. However, the inference process through intermediate layers is opaque, making it difficult to interpret such networks or develop trust in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Yael Konforti , Alon Shpigler , Boaz Lernerand Aharon Bar-Hillel

Mechanistic interpretability is concerned with analyzing individual components in a (convolutional) neural network (CNN) and how they form larger circuits representing decision mechanisms. These investigations are challenging since CNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Robin Hesse , Jonas Fischer , Simone Schaub-Meyer , Stefan Roth

Machine learning solutions for pattern classification problems are nowadays widely deployed in society and industry. However, the lack of transparency and accountability of most accurate models often hinders their safe use. Thus, there is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Gonzalo Nápoles , Yamisleydi Salgueiro , Isel Grau , Maikel Leon Espinosa

Contrasting the previous evidence that neurons in the later layers of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) respond to complex object shapes, recent studies have shown that CNNs actually exhibit a `texture bias': given an image with both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Md Amirul Islam , Matthew Kowal , Patrick Esser , Sen Jia , Bjorn Ommer , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Neil Bruce

Data augmentations are important ingredients in the recipe for training robust neural networks, especially in computer vision. A fundamental question is whether neural network features encode data augmentation transformations. To answer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Eddie Yan , Yanping Huang

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated impressive performance on many visual tasks. Recently, they became useful models for the visual system in neuroscience. However, it is still not clear what are learned by CNNs in…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-02-19 Qi Yan , Yajing Zheng , Shanshan Jia , Yichen Zhang , Zhaofei Yu , Feng Chen , Yonghong Tian , Tiejun Huang , Jian K. Liu

With the continue development of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), there is a growing concern regarding representations that they encode internally. Analyzing these internal representations is referred to as model interpretation. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Hamed Behzadi-Khormouji , José Oramas

Concept bottleneck models (CBMs) have emerged as critical tools in domains where interpretability is paramount. These models rely on predefined textual descriptions, referred to as concepts, to inform their decision-making process and offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Maor Dikter , Tsachi Blau , Chaim Baskin

The success of deep neural nets heavily relies on their ability to encode complex relations between their input and their output. While this property serves to fit the training data well, it also obscures the mechanism that drives…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Itai Gat , Guy Lorberbom , Idan Schwartz , Tamir Hazan

An approach to improve network interpretability is via clusterability, i.e., splitting a model into disjoint clusters that can be studied independently. We find pretrained models to be highly unclusterable and thus train models to be more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Satvik Golechha , Dylan Cope , Nandi Schoots