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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Zachariah Carmichael , Timothy Redgrave , Daniel Gonzalez Cedre , Walter J. Scheirer

Interpretability is a key requirement for the use of machine learning models in high-stakes applications, including medical diagnosis. Explaining black-box models mostly relies on post-hoc methods that do not faithfully reflect the model's…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Kerol Djoumessi , Bubacarr Bah , Laura Kühlewein , Philipp Berens , Lisa Koch

Deep learning models have significantly advanced acoustic bird monitoring by being able to recognize numerous bird species based on their vocalizations. However, traditional deep learning models are black boxes that provide no insight into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-14 René Heinrich , Lukas Rauch , Bernhard Sick , Christoph Scholz

Models often need to be constrained to a certain size for them to be considered interpretable. For example, a decision tree of depth 5 is much easier to understand than one of depth 50. Limiting model size, however, often reduces accuracy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Abhishek Ghose , Balaraman Ravindran

Neural network architectures are most often conceptually designed and described in visual terms, but are implemented by writing error-prone code. PrototypeML is a machine learning development environment that bridges the dichotomy between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Daniel Reiss Harris

Deep neural networks have proved to be a very effective way to perform classification tasks. They excel when the input data is high dimensional, the relationship between the input and the output is complicated, and the number of labeled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Nicholas Frosst , Geoffrey Hinton

We present an interpretable neural network approach to predicting and understanding politeness in natural language requests. Our models are based on simple convolutional neural networks directly on raw text, avoiding any manual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Malika Aubakirova , Mohit Bansal

Decision Trees have remained a popular machine learning method for tabular datasets, mainly due to their interpretability. However, they lack the expressiveness needed to handle highly nonlinear or unstructured datasets. Motivated by recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Dimitris Bertsimas , Lisa Everest , Jiayi Gu , Matthew Peroni , Vasiliki Stoumpou

Decision trees are ubiquitous in machine learning for their ease of use and interpretability. Yet, these models are not typically employed in reinforcement learning as they cannot be updated online via stochastic gradient descent. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Andrew Silva , Taylor Killian , Ivan Dario Jimenez Rodriguez , Sung-Hyun Son , Matthew Gombolay

While deep learning has achieved impressive performance in time series forecasting, it becomes increasingly crucial to understand its decision-making process for building trust in high-stakes scenarios. Existing interpretable models often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Ziheng Peng , Shijie Ren , Xinyue Gu , Linxiao Yang , Xiting Wang , Liang Sun

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

Classification of jets with deep learning has gained significant attention in recent times. However, the performance of deep neural networks is often achieved at the cost of interpretability. Here we propose an interpretable network trained…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-27 Amit Chakraborty , Sung Hak Lim , Mihoko M. Nojiri

Nonlinear manifolds are pervasive in deep visual features, where Euclidean distances can misrepresent true similarity. This mismatch is particularly detrimental to prototype-based interpretable fine-grained recognition, where even subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Junhao Jia , Yunyou Liu , Yifei Sun , Huangwei Chen , Feiwei Qin , Changmiao Wang , Yong Peng

The lack of interpretability remains a barrier to the adoption of deep neural networks. Recently, tree regularization has been proposed to encourage deep neural networks to resemble compact, axis-aligned decision trees without significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Mike Wu , Sonali Parbhoo , Michael Hughes , Ryan Kindle , Leo Celi , Maurizio Zazzi , Volker Roth , Finale Doshi-Velez

Vision models are interpretable when they classify objects on the basis of features that a person can directly understand. Recently, methods relying on visual feature prototypes have been developed for this purpose. However, in contrast to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Peter Hase , Chaofan Chen , Oscar Li , Cynthia Rudin

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

Over the past decade, adaptive video streaming technology has witnessed significant advancements, particularly driven by the rapid evolution of deep learning techniques. However, the black-box nature of deep learning algorithms presents…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Lianchen Jia , Chaoyang Li , Ziqi Yuan , Jiahui Chen , Tianchi Huang , Jiangchuan Liu , Lifeng Sun

This paper proposes a generic method to learn interpretable convolutional filters in a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) for object classification, where each interpretable filter encodes features of a specific object part. Our method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Quanshi Zhang , Xin Wang , Ying Nian Wu , Huilin Zhou , Song-Chun Zhu

Plant phenotyping is the assessment of a plant's traits and plant identification is the process of determining the category such as genus and species. In this paper we present an interpretable neural network trained on the UPWINS spectral…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-16 William Basener , Abigail Basener , Michael Luegering

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