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Despite their impact on the society, deep neural networks are often regarded as black-box models due to their intricate structures and the absence of explanations for their decisions. This opacity poses a significant challenge to AI systems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Biagio La Rosa

When developing AI systems that interact with humans, it is essential to design both a system that can understand humans, and a system that humans can understand. Most deep network based agent-modeling approaches are 1) not interpretable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Ini Oguntola , Dana Hughes , Katia Sycara

As deep neural networks continue to revolutionize various application domains, there is increasing interest in making these powerful models more understandable and interpretable, and narrowing down the causes of good and bad predictions. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-04 Viktoriya Krakovna , Finale Doshi-Velez

Reward Models (RMs) are key components for evaluating and guiding language model outputs. However, traditional scalar RMs often struggle with incorporating contextual and background information during inference, leading to incomplete…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Xiaoyu Liu , Di Liang , Chang Dai , Hongyu Shan , Peiyang Liu , Yonghao Liu , Muling Wu , Yuntao Li , Xianjie Wu , LI Miao , Jiangrong Shen , Minlong Peng

We show that large language models (LLMs) are remarkably good at working with interpretable models that decompose complex outcomes into univariate graph-represented components. By adopting a hierarchical approach to reasoning, LLMs can…

In complex inferential tasks like question answering, machine learning models must confront two challenges: the need to implement a compositional reasoning process, and, in many applications, the need for this reasoning process to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Ronghang Hu , Jacob Andreas , Trevor Darrell , Kate Saenko

We consider a light-weight method which allows to improve the explainability of localized classification networks. The method considers (Grad)CAM maps during the training process by modification of the training loss and does not require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Alfred Schöttl

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a prominent framework for graph mining, leading to significant advances across various domains. Stemmed from the node-wise representations of GNNs, existing explanation studies have embraced the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Yuwen Wang , Shunyu Liu , Tongya Zheng , Kaixuan Chen , Mingli Song

One significant challenge of exploiting Graph neural networks (GNNs) in real-life scenarios is that they are always treated as black boxes, therefore leading to the requirement of interpretability. To address this, model-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Xiao Yue , Guangzhi Qu , Lige Gan

Recently, neural networks have been successfully employed to improve upon state-of-the-art performance in ad-hoc retrieval tasks via machine-learned ranking functions. While neural retrieval models grow in complexity and impact, little is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Michael Völske , Alexander Bondarenko , Maik Fröbe , Matthias Hagen , Benno Stein , Jaspreet Singh , Avishek Anand

The lack of interpretability and transparency are preventing economists from using advanced tools like neural networks in their empirical research. In this paper, we propose a class of interpretable neural network models that can achieve…

Econometrics · Economics 2020-12-01 Yucheng Yang , Zhong Zheng , Weinan E

Generative AI, particularly Large Language Models, increasingly integrates graph-based representations to enhance reasoning, retrieval, and structured decision-making. Despite rapid advances, there remains limited clarity regarding when,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hamed Jelodar , Samita Bai , Mohammad Meymani , Parisa Hamedi , Roozbeh Razavi-Far , Ali Ghorbani

Neural additive models (NAMs) enhance the transparency of deep neural networks by handling input features in separate additive sub-networks. However, they lack inherent mechanisms that provide calibrated uncertainties and enable selection…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-29 Kouroche Bouchiat , Alexander Immer , Hugo Yèche , Gunnar Rätsch , Vincent Fortuin

Due to their black-box and data-hungry nature, deep learning techniques are not yet widely adopted for real-world applications in critical domains, like healthcare and justice. This paper presents Memory Wrap, a plug-and-play extension to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Biagio La Rosa , Roberto Capobianco , Daniele Nardi

This paper introduces an Interpretable Neural Network (INN) incorporating spatial information to tackle the opaque parameterization process of random weighted neural networks. The INN leverages spatial information to elucidate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Jing Nan , Wei Dai

Despite incredible progress, many neural architectures fail to properly generalize beyond their training distribution. As such, learning to reason in a correct and generalizable way is one of the current fundamental challenges in machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Niccolò Grillo , Andrea Toccaceli , Joël Mathys , Benjamin Estermann , Stefania Fresca , Roger Wattenhofer

The interpretability of model has become one of the obstacles to its wide application in the high-stake fields. The usual way to obtain interpretability is to build a black-box first and then explain it using the post-hoc methods. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Zihao Chen , Xiaomeng Wang , Yuanjiang Huang , Tao Jia

The importance of explainability in AI has become a pressing concern, for which several explainable AI (XAI) approaches have been recently proposed. However, most of the available XAI techniques are post-hoc methods, which however may be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Leonardo Lucio Custode , Giovanni Iacca

Generative AI models offer powerful capabilities but often lack transparency, making it difficult to interpret their output. This is critical in cases involving artistic or copyrighted content. This work introduces a search-inspired…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Theodoros Aivalis , Iraklis A. Klampanos , Antonis Troumpoukis , Joemon M. Jose

While machine learning techniques have been successfully applied in several fields, the black-box nature of the models presents challenges for interpreting and explaining the results. We develop a new framework called Adaptive Explainable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-03 Jie Chen , Joel Vaughan , Vijayan N. Nair , Agus Sudjianto