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Deep neural networks have exhibited remarkable performance across a wide range of real-world tasks. However, comprehending the underlying reasons for their effectiveness remains a challenging problem. Interpreting deep neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Chenxu Zhao , Wei Qian , Yucheng Shi , Mengdi Huai , Ninghao Liu

Classical models for supervised machine learning, such as decision trees, are efficient and interpretable predictors, but their quality is highly dependent on the particular choice of input features. Although neural networks can learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Gabriel Poesia , Georgia Gabriela Sampaio

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have exhibited great performance in discriminative feature learning for complex visual tasks. Besides discrimination power, interpretability is another important yet under-explored property for CNNs. One…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Wengang Guo , Jiayi Yang , Huilin Yin , Qijun Chen , Wei Ye

Learning concepts that are consistent with human perception is important for Deep Neural Networks to win end-user trust. Post-hoc interpretation methods lack transparency in the feature representations learned by the models. This work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Sandareka Wickramanayake , Wynne Hsu , Mong Li Lee

Semi-structured networks (SSNs) merge the structures familiar from additive models with deep neural networks, allowing the modeling of interpretable partial feature effects while capturing higher-order non-linearities at the same time. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 David Rügamer , Bernard X. W. Liew , Zainab Altai , Almond Stöcker

Predictive modeling often faces challenges due to limited data availability and quality, especially in domains where collected features are weakly correlated with outcomes and where additional feature collection is constrained by ethical or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Bingxuan Li , Pengyi Shi , Amy Ward

A recent study on the interpretability of real-valued convolutional neural networks (CNNs) {Stankovic_Mandic_2023CNN} has revealed a direct and physically meaningful link with the task of finding features in data through matched filters.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Qingchen Wang , Zhe Li , Zdenka Babic , Wei Deng , Ljubiša Stanković , Danilo P. Mandic

With the broader and highly successful usage of machine learning in industry and the sciences, there has been a growing demand for Explainable AI. Interpretability and explanation methods for gaining a better understanding about the problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Wojciech Samek , Grégoire Montavon , Sebastian Lapuschkin , Christopher J. Anders , Klaus-Robert Müller

Recently, large language models (LLMs) have been explored for integration with collaborative filtering (CF)-based recommendation systems, which are crucial for personalizing user experiences. However, a key challenge is that LLMs struggle…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Chao Wang , Yixin Song , Jinhui Ye , Chuan Qin , Dazhong Shen , Lingfeng Liu , Xiang Wang , Yanyong Zhang

Over the past several years, legal applications of deep learning have been on the rise. However, as with other high-stakes decision making areas, the requirement for interpretability is of crucial importance. Current models utilized by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Rohan Bhambhoria , Hui Liu , Samuel Dahan , Xiaodan Zhu

In recent years there has been a considerable amount of research on local post hoc explanations for neural networks. However, work on building interpretable neural architectures has been relatively sparse. In this paper, we present a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Isha Puri , Amit Dhurandhar , Tejaswini Pedapati , Kartikeyan Shanmugam , Dennis Wei , Kush R. Varshney

Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable performance in various text-based tasks but often lack interpretability, making them less suitable for applications where transparency is critical. To address this, we propose ProtoLens, a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Bowen Wei , Ziwei Zhu

Model scaling is becoming the default choice for many language tasks due to the success of large language models (LLMs). However, it can fall short in specific scenarios where simple customized methods excel. In this paper, we delve into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Xiaochen Kev Gao , Feng Yao , Kewen Zhao , Beilei He , Animesh Kumar , Vish Krishnan , Jingbo Shang

There is a growing concern about typically opaque decision-making with high-performance machine learning algorithms. Providing an explanation of the reasoning process in domain-specific terms can be crucial for adoption in risk-sensitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Aditya Chattopadhyay , Stewart Slocum , Benjamin D. Haeffele , Rene Vidal , Donald Geman

Complex nonlinear models such as deep neural network (DNNs) have become an important tool for image classification, speech recognition, natural language processing, and many other fields of application. These models however lack…

Interpretable models can have advantages over black-box models, and interpretability is essential for the application of machine learning in critical settings, such as aviation or medicine. This article introduces the LASSO-Clip-EN (LCEN)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Pedro Seber , Richard D. Braatz

Recent years have seen important advances in the building of interpretable models, machine learning models that are designed to be easily understood by humans. In this work, we show that large language models (LLMs) are remarkably good at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Sebastian Bordt , Ben Lengerich , Harsha Nori , Rich Caruana

Logic-based machine learning aims to learn general, interpretable knowledge in a data-efficient manner. However, labelled data must be specified in a structured logical form. To address this limitation, we propose a neural-symbolic learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Daniel Cunnington , Mark Law , Alessandra Russo , Jorge Lobo

Balancing predictive power and interpretability has long been a challenging research area, particularly in powerful yet complex models like neural networks, where nonlinearity obstructs direct interpretation. This paper introduces a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Antoine Ledent , Peng Liu

One of the central issues of several machine learning applications on real data is the choice of the input features. Ideally, the designer should select only the relevant, non-redundant features to preserve the complete information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Paolo Bonetti , Alberto Maria Metelli , Marcello Restelli