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The interpretation of reasoning by Deep Neural Networks (DNN) is still challenging due to their perceived black-box nature. Therefore, deploying DNNs in several real-world tasks is restricted by the lack of transparency of these models. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Maddimsetti Srinivas , Debdoot Sheet

With the increasing demands for accountability, interpretability is becoming an essential capability for real-world AI applications. However, most methods utilize post-hoc approaches rather than training the interpretable model. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Yoshihide Sawada , Keigo Nakamura

We present an end-to-end trainable deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) for semantic segmentation with built-in awareness of semantically meaningful boundaries. Semantic segmentation is a fundamental remote sensing task, and most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Dimitrios Marmanis , Konrad Schindler , Jan Dirk Wegner , Silvano Galliani , Mihai Datcu , Uwe Stilla

State of the art Deep Neural Networks (DNN) can now achieve above human level accuracy on image classification tasks. However their outstanding performances come along with a complex inference mechanism making them arduously interpretable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Fei Wu , Thomas Michel , Alexandre Briot

This paper introduces a visual sentiment concept classification method based on deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The visual sentiment concepts are adjective noun pairs (ANPs) automatically discovered from the tags of web photos,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-03 Tao Chen , Damian Borth , Trevor Darrell , Shih-Fu Chang

Deep learning models have achieved strong performance in medical image analysis, but their internal decision processes remain difficult to interpret. Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) partially address this limitation by structuring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Getamesay Dagnaw , Xuefei Yin , Muhammad Hassan Maqsood , Yanming Zhu , Alan Wee-Chung Liew

Although neural models have achieved remarkable performance, they still encounter doubts due to the intransparency. To this end, model prediction explanation is attracting more and more attentions. However, current methods rarely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Yong Guan , Freddy Lecue , Jiaoyan Chen , Ru Li , Jeff Z. Pan

In an attempt to gather a deeper understanding of how convolutional neural networks (CNNs) reason about human-understandable concepts, we present a method to infer labeled concept data from hidden layer activations and interpret the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Conner Chyung , Michael Tsang , Yan Liu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have made significant strides in Natural Language Processing (NLP), yet their interpretability remains elusive, particularly when evaluating their intricate decision-making processes. Traditional methods often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Zhou Yang , Shunyan Luo , Jiazhen Zhu , Fang Jin

The success of deep neural networks (DNN) in machine perception applications such as image classification and speech recognition comes at the cost of high computation and storage complexity. Inference of uncompressed large scale DNN models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Yihao Fang , Shervin Manzuri Shalmani , Rong Zheng

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved unprecedented performance on a wide range of complex tasks, rapidly outpacing our understanding of the nature of their solutions. This has caused a recent surge of interest in methods for rendering…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-30 Samuel Ritter , David G. T. Barrett , Adam Santoro , Matt M. Botvinick

Concept-based interpretability methods offer a lens into the internals of foundation models by decomposing their embeddings into high-level concepts. These concept representations are most useful when they are compositional, meaning that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Adam Stein , Aaditya Naik , Yinjun Wu , Mayur Naik , Eric Wong

Model Interpretation aims at the extraction of insights from the internals of a trained model. A common approach to address this task is the characterization of relevant features internally encoded in the model that are critical for its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Hamed Behzadi-Khormouji , José Oramas

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have made significant progress in recognizing visual elements and generating descriptive text in image-captioning tasks. However, their improved performance comes from increased computational burden and inference…

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Distributed DNN inference is becoming increasingly important as the demand for intelligent services at the network edge grows. By leveraging the power of distributed computing, edge devices can perform complicated and resource-hungry…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Xian Peng , Xin Wu , Lianming Xu , Li Wang , Aiguo Fei

The ability to interpret machine learning models has become increasingly important now that machine learning is used to inform consequential decisions. We propose an approach called model extraction for interpreting complex, blackbox…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Osbert Bastani , Carolyn Kim , Hamsa Bastani

In this paper, we propose Describe-and-Dissect (DnD), a novel method to describe the roles of hidden neurons in vision networks. DnD utilizes recent advancements in multimodal deep learning to produce complex natural language descriptions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Nicholas Bai , Rahul A. Iyer , Tuomas Oikarinen , Akshay Kulkarni , Tsui-Wei Weng

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are increasingly being used in critical systems, where robustness and alignment are crucial. In this context, the field of explainable artificial intelligence has proposed the generation of high-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Andres Felipe Posada-Moreno , Nikita Surya , Sebastian Trimpe

There has been considerable recent interest in interpretable concept-based models such as Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs), which first predict human-interpretable concepts and then map them to output classes. To reduce reliance on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Simon Schrodi , Julian Schur , Max Argus , Thomas Brox

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have advanced applications in domains such as healthcare, autonomous systems, and scene understanding, yet the internal semantics of their hidden neurons remain poorly understood. Prior work introduced a Concept…

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