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This paper studies interpretability of convolutional networks by means of saliency maps. Most approaches based on Class Activation Maps (CAM) combine information from fully connected layers and gradient through variants of backpropagation.…

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Recent studies have shown that deep learning models are vulnerable to specifically crafted adversarial inputs that are quasi-imperceptible to humans. In this letter, we propose a novel method to detect adversarial inputs, by augmenting the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Kirthi Shankar Sivamani , Rajeev Sahay , Aly El Gamal

One popular group of defense techniques against adversarial attacks is based on injecting stochastic noise into the network. The main source of robustness of such stochastic defenses however is often due to the obfuscation of the gradients,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Nikola Popovic , Danda Pani Paudel , Thomas Probst , Luc Van Gool

Discriminative Feature Feedback is a setting proposed by Dastupta et al. (2018), which provides a protocol for interactive learning based on feature explanations that are provided by a human teacher. The features distinguish between the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Sivan Sabato

Attribution methods shed light on the explainability of data-driven approaches such as deep learning models by uncovering the most influential features in a to-be-explained decision. While determining feature attributions via gradients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Yi Cai , Gerhard Wunder

Image attribution analysis seeks to highlight the feature representations learned by visual models such that the highlighted feature maps can reflect the pixel-wise importance of inputs. Gradient integration is a building block in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Róisín Luo , James McDermott , Colm O'Riordan

Despite their remarkable performance, deep neural networks exhibit a critical vulnerability: small, often imperceptible, adversarial perturbations can lead to drastically altered model predictions. Given the stringent reliability demands of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Mohammad Mahdi Razmjoo , Mohammad Mahdi Sharifian , Saeed Bagheri Shouraki

Adversarial examples are augmented data points generated by imperceptible perturbation of input samples. They have recently drawn much attention with the machine learning and data mining community. Being difficult to distinguish from real…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-03 Chunchuan Lyu , Kaizhu Huang , Hai-Ning Liang

In the MNIST auxiliary logit distillation experiment, a student can acquire an unintended teacher trait despite distilling only on no-class logits through a phenomenon called subliminal learning. Under a single-step gradient descent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Chayanon Kitkana , Shivam Arora

Multimodal Large Language Models demonstrate strong performance on multimodal benchmarks, yet often exhibit poor robustness when exposed to spurious modality interference, such as irrelevant text in vision understanding, or irrelevant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Rui Cai , Bangzheng Li , Xiaofei Wen , Muhao Chen , Zhe Zhao

With new large language models (LLMs) emerging frequently, it is important to consider the potential value of model-agnostic approaches that can provide interpretability across a variety of architectures. While recent advances in LLM…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Sina Abbasi , Mohammad Reza Modarres , Mohammad Taher Pilehvar

Gradient-based iterative optimization methods are the workhorse of modern machine learning. They crucially rely on careful tuning of parameters like learning rate and momentum. However, one typically sets them using heuristic approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Dravyansh Sharma

Large language models (LLMs) achieve strong performance across many natural language processing tasks, yet their decision processes remain difficult to interpret. This lack of transparency creates challenges for trust, debugging, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Venkata Abhinandan Kancharla

Neural networks for image classification tasks assume that any given image during inference belongs to one of the training classes. This closed-set assumption is challenged in real-world applications where models may encounter inputs of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Jinsol Lee , Ghassan AlRegib

Can stochastic gradient methods track a moving target? We study the problem of tracking multidimensional time-varying parameters under noisy observations and possible model misspecification. Gradient-based filters update the time-varying…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-05 Simon Donker van Heel , Rutger-Jan Lange , Bram van Os , Dick van Dijk

Multi-band insulating Bloch Hamiltonians with internal or spatial symmetries, such as particle-hole or inversion, may have topologically disconnected sectors of trivial atomic-limit (momentum-independent) Hamiltonians. We present a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-04-19 Oleksandr Balabanov , Mats Granath

Integrated Gradients is a well-known technique for explaining deep learning models. It calculates feature importance scores by employing a gradient based approach computing gradients of the model output with respect to input features and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Swarnava Sinha Roy , Ayan Kundu

Normalising flows (NFs) for discrete data are challenging because parameterising bijective transformations of discrete variables requires predicting discrete/integer parameters. Having a neural network architecture predict discrete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Rob Hesselink , Wilker Aziz

Explaining the predictions of deep neural nets has been a topic of great interest in the computer vision literature. While several gradient-based interpretation schemes have been proposed to reveal the influential variables in a neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Jingwei Zhang , Farzan Farnia

Integrated Gradients has become a popular method for post-hoc model interpretability. De-spite its popularity, the composition and relative impact of different regions of the integral path are not well understood. We explore these effects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Vivek Miglani , Narine Kokhlikyan , Bilal Alsallakh , Miguel Martin , Orion Reblitz-Richardson