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Integrated Gradients (IG) is a widely used algorithm for attributing the outputs of a deep neural network to its input features. Due to the absence of closed-form integrals for deep learning models, inaccurate Riemann Sum approximations are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Swadesh Swain , Shree Singhi

The Average Gradient Outer Product (AGOP) governs feature learning in neural networks: the Neural Feature Ansatz states that weight Gram matrices at each layer align with the corresponding AGOP matrices computed over the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Raj Kiran Gupta Katakam

We introduce Phasic Policy Gradient (PPG), a reinforcement learning framework which modifies traditional on-policy actor-critic methods by separating policy and value function training into distinct phases. In prior methods, one must choose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Karl Cobbe , Jacob Hilton , Oleg Klimov , John Schulman

We study the problem of attributing the prediction of a deep network to its input features, a problem previously studied by several other works. We identify two fundamental axioms---Sensitivity and Implementation Invariance that attribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Mukund Sundararajan , Ankur Taly , Qiqi Yan

This paper introduces Interpretability-Guided Bi-objective Optimization (IGBO), a framework that trains interpretable models by incorporating structured domain knowledge via a bi-objective formulation. IGBO encodes feature importance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Kasra Fouladi , Hamta Rahmani

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) methods are increasingly used in safety-critical domains, yet there is no unified framework to jointly evaluate fidelity, interpretability, robustness, fairness, and completeness. We address this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Md. Ariful Islam , Md Abrar Jahin , M. F. Mridha , Nilanjan Dey

Autoregressive (AR) models based on next-scale prediction are rapidly emerging as a powerful tool for image generation, but they face a critical weakness: information inconsistencies between patches across timesteps introduced by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Ky Dan Nguyen , Hoang Lam Tran , Anh-Dung Dinh , Daochang Liu , Weidong Cai , Xiuying Wang , Chang Xu

Integrated Gradients (IG), one of the most popular explainability methods available, still remains ambiguous in the selection of baseline, which may seriously impair the credibility of the explanations. This study proposes a new uniform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Hanxiao Tan

Deep neural network training involves both forward propagation (from features through logits to loss) and backward propagation (from loss through gradients to parameter updates). While perturbations along the forward chain, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Hua Li

The rapid evolution of generative AI, from GANs to modern diffusion models, has resulted in increasingly subtle discriminative clues. These fine-grained signals are often overshadowed by dominant, high-fidelity image content (e.g., the main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Xiaoyu Zhou , Jianwei Fei , Peipeng Yu , Jingchang Xie , Chong Cheng , Zhihua Xia

Interpretability is essential in Whole Slide Image (WSI) analysis for computational pathology, where understanding model predictions helps build trust in AI-assisted diagnostics. While Integrated Gradients (IG) and related attribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Anh Mai Vu , Tuan L. Vo , Ngoc Lam Quang Bui , Nam Nguyen Le Binh , Akash Awasthi , Huy Quoc Vo , Thanh-Huy Nguyen , Zhu Han , Chandra Mohan , Hien Van Nguyen

Graphical models capture relations between entities in a wide range of applications including social networks, biology, and natural language processing, among others. Graph neural networks (GNN) are neural models that operate over graphs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Xu Zheng , Farhad Shirani , Tianchun Wang , Shouwei Gao , Wenqian Dong , Wei Cheng , Dongsheng Luo

We introduce the Probabilistic Generative Adversarial Network (PGAN), a new GAN variant based on a new kind of objective function. The central idea is to integrate a probabilistic model (a Gaussian Mixture Model, in our case) into the GAN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Hamid Eghbal-zadeh , Gerhard Widmer

Efficient deployment of deep neural networks on resource-constrained devices demands advanced compression techniques that preserve accuracy and interoperability. This paper proposes a machine learning framework that augments Knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 David E. Hernandez , Jose Ramon Chang , Torbjörn E. M. Nordling

Most efforts in interpretability in deep learning have focused on (1) extracting explanations of a specific downstream task in relation to the input features and (2) imposing constraints on the model, often at the expense of predictive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Marco Bertolini , Djork-Arné Clevert , Floriane Montanari

Saliency methods interpret the prediction of a neural network by showing the importance of input elements for that prediction. A popular family of saliency methods utilize gradient information. In this work, we empirically show that two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Ashkan Khakzar , Soroosh Baselizadeh , Nassir Navab

Image classification is an essential task in computer vision, which aims to categorise a set of images into different groups based on some visual criteria. Existing methods, such as convolutional neural networks, have been successfully…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Benjamin Patrick Evans , Harith Al-Sahaf , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

Data imputation addresses the challenge of imputing missing values in database instances, ensuring consistency with the overall semantics of the dataset. Although several heuristics which rely on statistical methods, and ad-hoc rules have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Jiang Hua , Michael Bewong , Selasi Kwashie , MD Geaur Rahman , Junwei Hu , Xi Guo , Zaiwen Fen

While the popularity of physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) is steadily rising, to this date, PINNs have not been successful in simulating multi-scale and singular perturbation problems. In this work, we present a new training paradigm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Zhiwei Fang , Sifan Wang , Paris Perdikaris

Area of image inpainting over relatively large missing regions recently advanced substantially through adaptation of dedicated deep neural networks. However, current network solutions still introduce undesired artifacts and noise to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-21 Ugur Demir , Gozde Unal