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Despite the growing body of work in interpretable machine learning, it remains unclear how to evaluate different explainability methods without resorting to qualitative assessment and user-studies. While interpretability is an inherently…

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Interpretability is central to trustworthy machine learning, yet existing metrics rarely quantify how effectively data support an interpretive representation. We propose Interpretive Efficiency, a normalized, task-aware functional that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Ronald Katende

This article presents a survey of work on lifted graphical models. We review a general form for a lifted graphical model, a par-factor graph, and show how a number of existing statistical relational representations map to this formalism. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-08-29 Lilyana Mihalkova , Lise Getoor

Interpretability is a pressing issue for machine learning. Common approaches to interpretable machine learning constrain interactions between features of the input, rendering the effects of those features on a model's output comprehensible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Kieran A. Murphy , Dani S. Bassett

Decision analysis deals with modeling and enhancing decision processes. A principal challenge in improving behavior is in obtaining a transparent description of existing behavior in the first place. In this paper, we develop an expressive,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-31 Daniel Jarrett , Alihan Hüyük , Mihaela van der Schaar

Semantic analysis on visible (RGB) and infrared (IR) images has gained significant attention due to their enhanced accuracy and robustness under challenging conditions including low-illumination and adverse weather. However, due to the lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Maoxun Yuan , Bo Cui , Tianyi Zhao , Jiayi Wang , Shan Fu , Xue Yang , Xingxing Wei

I introduce a formalism for representing the syntax of recursively structured graph-like patterns. It does not use production rules, like a conventional graph grammar, but represents the syntactic structure in a more direct and declarative…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Peter Fletcher

The Unified Modelling Language is emerging as a de-facto standard for modelling object-oriented systems. However, the semantics document that a part of the standard definition primarily provides a description of the language's syntax and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-09-25 Andy Evans , Kevin Lano , Robert France , Bernhard Rumpe

Interpreting a nonparametric regression model with many predictors is known to be a challenging problem. There has been renewed interest in this topic due to the extensive use of machine learning algorithms and the difficulty in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-11 Xiaoyu Liu , Jie Chen , Joel Vaughan , Vijayan Nair , Agus Sudjianto

The paper proposes representation functionals in a dual paradigm where learning jointly concerns both linear convolutional weights and parametric forms of nonlinear activation functions. The nonlinear forms proposed for performing the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Abdourrahmane Mahamane Atto , Sylvie Galichet , Dominique Pastor , Nicolas Méger

Part of the theory of logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning concerns the study of fixed-point semantics for these paradigms. Several different semantics have been proposed during the last two decades, and some have been more…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Pascal Hitzler , Matthias Wendt

The umbral approach provides methods for comprehending and redefining special functions. This approach is employed efficiently in order to uncover intricacies and introduce new families of special functions. In this article, the umbral…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Subuhi Khan , Ujair Ahmad , Mehnaz Haneef

Deep neural networks have been well-known for their superb handling of various machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks. However, due to their over-parameterized black-box nature, it is often difficult to understand the prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Xuhong Li , Haoyi Xiong , Xingjian Li , Xuanyu Wu , Xiao Zhang , Ji Liu , Jiang Bian , Dejing Dou

Brain decoding is a popular multivariate approach for hypothesis testing in neuroimaging. It is well known that the brain maps derived from weights of linear classifiers are hard to interpret because of high correlations between predictors,…

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We find that sometimes the usual definition of functional integration over the gauge group through limiting process may have internal difficulties.

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In this paper we consider two properties of variadic functions, namely associativity and preassociativity, that are pertaining to several data and language processing tasks. We propose parameterized relaxations of these properties and…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-06-21 Miguel Couceiro , Jean-Luc Marichal , Bruno Teheux

In this work we produce a framework for constructing universal function approximators on graph isomorphism classes. We prove how this framework comes with a collection of theoretically desirable properties and enables novel analysis. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Rickard Brüel-Gabrielsson

A parametrized convex function depends on a variable and a parameter, and is convex in the variable for any valid value of the parameter. Such functions can be used to specify parametrized convex optimization problems, i.e., a convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Maximilian Schaller , Alberto Bemporad , Stephen Boyd

A number of parametric and nonparametric methods for estimating cognitive diagnosis models (CDMs) have been developed and applied in a wide range of contexts. However, in the literature, a wide chasm exists between these two families of…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-01-08 Chenchen Ma , Jimmy de la Torre , Gongjun Xu

How interpretable are the features of leading vision models? The question is increasingly pressing as these models move from research benchmarks into high-stakes deployments, yet existing methods cannot answer it reliably. We close this gap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Julien Colin , Lore Goetschalckx , Nuria Oliver , Thomas Serre