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We propose a technique for producing "visual explanations" for decisions from a large class of CNN-based models, making them more transparent. Our approach - Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping (Grad-CAM), uses the gradients of any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Ramprasaath R. Selvaraju , Michael Cogswell , Abhishek Das , Ramakrishna Vedantam , Devi Parikh , Dhruv Batra

Deep learning techniques have proven highly effective in image classification, but their deployment in resourceconstrained environments remains challenging due to high computational demands. Furthermore, their interpretability is of high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Alireza Maleki , Mahsa Lavaei , Mohsen Bagheritabar , Salar Beigzad , Zahra Abadi

Capsule Networks, as alternatives to Convolutional Neural Networks, have been proposed to recognize objects from images. The current literature demonstrates many advantages of CapsNets over CNNs. However, how to create explanations for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Jindong Gu , Volker Tresp

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are powerful tools on graph data. However, their predictions are mis-calibrated and lack interpretability, limiting their adoption in critical applications. To address this issue, we propose a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Lingkai Kong , Haotian Sun , Yuchen Zhuang , Haorui Wang , Wenhao Mu , Chao Zhang

Gradient-based saliency methods are widely used to interpret deep neural networks, yet they often produce noisy and unstable explanations that poorly align with semantically meaningful input features. We argue that a fundamental cause of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Ali Karkehabadi , Jamshid Hassanpour , Houman Homayoun , Avesta Sasan

Saliency methods have been widely used to highlight important input features in model predictions. Most existing methods use backpropagation on a modified gradient function to generate saliency maps. Thus, noisy gradients can result in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Aya Abdelsalam Ismail , Héctor Corrada Bravo , Soheil Feizi

In recent years, the remarkable success of graph neural networks (GNNs) on graph-structured data has prompted a surge of methods for explaining GNN predictions. However, the state-of-the-art for GNN explainability remains in flux. Different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Jesse He , Akbar Rafiey , Gal Mishne , Yusu Wang

The opaque nature of deep learning models remains a significant barrier to their clinical adoption in medical imaging. This paper presents a multimodal explainability framework that bridges the gap between convolutional neural network (CNN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Paul Valery Nguezet , Elie Tagne Fute , Yusuf Brima , Benoit Martin Azanguezet , Marcellin Atemkeng

We present a new technique that explains the output of a CNN-based model using a combination of GradCAM and LRP methods. Both of these methods produce visual explanations by highlighting input regions that are important for predictions. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Vaibhav Dhore , Achintya Bhat , Viraj Nerlekar , Kashyap Chavhan , Aniket Umare

Deep learning models have achieved promising results in breast cancer classification, yet their 'black-box' nature raises interpretability concerns. This research addresses the crucial need to gain insights into the decision-making process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Ann-Kristin Balve , Peter Hendrix

Saliency Maps (SMs) have been extensively used to interpret deep learning models decision by highlighting the features deemed relevant by the model. They are used on highly nonlinear problems, where linear feature selection (FS) methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Antoine Passemiers , Pietro Folco , Daniele Raimondi , Giovanni Birolo , Yves Moreau , Piero Fariselli

One of the significant challenges of deep neural networks is that the complex nature of the network prevents human comprehension of the outcome of the network. Consequently, the applicability of complex machine learning models is limited in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Shailja Thakur , Sebastian Fischmeister

Class activation map (CAM) helps to formulate saliency maps that aid in interpreting the deep neural network's prediction. Gradient-based methods are generally faster than other branches of vision interpretability and independent of human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Masud An Nur Islam Fahim , Nazmus Saqib , Shafkat Khan Siam , Ho Yub Jung

Deep learning models have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many classification tasks. However, most of them cannot provide an interpretation for their classification results. Machine learning models that are interpretable are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Miles Q. Li , Benjamin C. M. Fung , Adel Abusitta

Neural networks are becoming increasingly better at tasks that involve classifying and recognizing images. At the same time techniques intended to explain the network output have been proposed. One such technique is the Gradient-based Class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Mirtha Lucas , Miguel Lerma , Jacob Furst , Daniela Raicu

Explaining the output of a deep network remains a challenge. In the case of an image classifier, one type of explanation is to identify pixels that strongly influence the final decision. A starting point for this strategy is the gradient of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Daniel Smilkov , Nikhil Thorat , Been Kim , Fernanda Viégas , Martin Wattenberg

While deep learning techniques have provided the state-of-the-art performance in various clinical tasks, explainability regarding their decision-making process can greatly enhance the credence of these methods for safer and quicker clinical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-30 Zirui Qiu , Hassan Rivaz , Yiming Xiao

As deep learning continues to advance, the transparency of neural network decision-making remains a critical challenge, limiting trust and applicability in high-stakes domains. Class Activation Mapping (CAM) techniques have emerged as a key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Hongjie He , Xu Pan , Yudong Yao

We propose a technique for making Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based models more transparent by visualizing input regions that are 'important' for predictions -- or visual explanations. Our approach, called Gradient-weighted Class…

Recently, applying deep neural networks in IR has become an important and timely topic. For instance, Neural Ranking Models(NRMs) have shown promising performance compared to the traditional ranking models. However, explaining the ranking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Jaekeol Choi , Jungin Choi , Wonjong Rhee