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As artificial intelligence increasingly drives critical decisions, the ability to genuinely explain how neural networks make predictions is essential for trust. Yet, most current explanation methods offer post-hoc rationalizations rather…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Corentin Lobet , Francesca Chiaromonte

Interpretability of deep neural networks (DNNs) is essential since it enables users to understand the overall strengths and weaknesses of the models, conveys an understanding of how the models will behave in the future, and how to diagnose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Yinpeng Dong , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Bo Zhang

Explaining the predictions of a deep neural network is a nontrivial task, yet high-quality explanations for predictions are often a prerequisite for practitioners to trust these models. Counterfactual explanations aim to explain predictions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Andreas Abildtrup Hansen , Paraskevas Pegios , Anna Calissano , Aasa Feragen

Natural language explanations in visual question answering (VQA-NLE) aim to make black-box models more transparent by elucidating their decision-making processes. However, we find that existing VQA-NLE systems can produce inconsistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yahsin Yeh , Yilun Wu , Bokai Ruan , Honghan Shuai

An important goal in visual recognition is to devise image representations that are invariant to particular transformations. In this paper, we address this goal with a new type of convolutional neural network (CNN) whose invariance is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-08 Julien Mairal , Piotr Koniusz , Zaid Harchaoui , Cordelia Schmid

Many commonsense reasoning NLP tasks involve choosing between one or more possible answers to a question or prompt based on knowledge that is often implicit. Large pretrained language models (PLMs) can achieve near-human performance on such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Bhargavi Paranjape , Julian Michael , Marjan Ghazvininejad , Luke Zettlemoyer , Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Asking questions about visual environments is a crucial way for intelligent agents to understand rich multi-faceted scenes, raising the importance of Visual Question Generation (VQG) systems. Apart from being grounded to the image, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Li Mi , Syrielle Montariol , Javiera Castillo-Navarro , Xianjie Dai , Antoine Bosselut , Devis Tuia

This paper proposes a way to understand neural network artworks as juxtapositions of natural image cues. It is hypothesized that images with unusual combinations of realistic visual cues are interesting, and, neural models trained to model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Aaron Hertzmann

Deep neural networks excel at comprehending complex visual signals, delivering on par or even superior performance to that of human experts. However, ad-hoc visual explanations of model decisions often reveal an alarming level of reliance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Dong Wang , Yuewei Yang , Chenyang Tao , Zhe Gan , Liqun Chen , Fanjie Kong , Ricardo Henao , Lawrence Carin

Convolutional Neural Network (CNNs) are typically associated with Computer Vision. CNNs are responsible for major breakthroughs in Image Classification and are the core of most Computer Vision systems today. More recently CNNs have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Marc Moreno Lopez , Jugal Kalita

We propose Automatic Feature Explanation using Contrasting Concepts (FALCON), an interpretability framework to explain features of image representations. For a target feature, FALCON captions its highly activating cropped images using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Neha Kalibhat , Shweta Bhardwaj , Bayan Bruss , Hamed Firooz , Maziar Sanjabi , Soheil Feizi

We introduce Discovering Conceptual Network Explanations (DCNE), a new approach for generating human-comprehensible visual explanations to enhance the interpretability of deep neural image classifiers. Our method automatically finds visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Neehar Kondapaneni , Markus Marks , Oisin Mac Aodha , Pietro Perona

Visualization refers to our ability to create an image in our head based on the text we read or the words we hear. It is one of the many skills that makes reading comprehension possible. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are an excellent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Ignazio Gallo , Shah Nawaz , Alessandro Calefati , Riccardo La Grassa , Nicola Landro

In this work, we evaluate contrastive models for the task of image retrieval. We hypothesise that models that are learned to encode semantic similarity among instances via discriminative learning should perform well on the task of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Tarun Krishna , Kevin McGuinness , Noel O'Connor

Humans view the world through many sensory channels, e.g., the long-wavelength light channel, viewed by the left eye, or the high-frequency vibrations channel, heard by the right ear. Each view is noisy and incomplete, but important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Yonglong Tian , Dilip Krishnan , Phillip Isola

Lack of explainability in artificial intelligence, specifically deep neural networks, remains a bottleneck for implementing models in practice. Popular techniques such as Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping (Grad-CAM) provide a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Amil Dravid , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

Reinforcement learning (RL) has demonstrated remarkable success in solving complex decision-making problems, yet its adoption in critical domains is hindered by the lack of interpretability in its decision-making processes. Existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Rui Zuo , Simon Khan , Zifan Wang , Garrett Ethan Katz , Qinru Qiu

Vision-language models (VLMs) mainly rely on contrastive training to learn general-purpose representations of images and captions. We focus on the situation when one image is associated with several captions, each caption containing both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Maurits Bleeker , Mariya Hendriksen , Andrew Yates , Maarten de Rijke

Visualizing the features captured by Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) is one of the conventional approaches to interpret the predictions made by these models in numerous image recognition applications. Grad-CAM is a popular solution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Sam Sattarzadeh , Mahesh Sudhakar , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis , Jongseong Jang , Yeonjeong Jeong , Hyunwoo Kim

Clearly explaining a rationale for a classification decision to an end-user can be as important as the decision itself. Existing approaches for deep visual recognition are generally opaque and do not output any justification text;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Lisa Anne Hendricks , Zeynep Akata , Marcus Rohrbach , Jeff Donahue , Bernt Schiele , Trevor Darrell