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Most efforts in interpretability in deep learning have focused on (1) extracting explanations of a specific downstream task in relation to the input features and (2) imposing constraints on the model, often at the expense of predictive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Marco Bertolini , Djork-Arné Clevert , Floriane Montanari

Rule-based methods for knowledge graph completion provide explainable results but often require a significantly large number of rules to achieve competitive performance. This can hinder explainability due to overwhelmingly large rule sets.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jaikrishna Manojkumar Patil , Nathaniel Lee , Al Mehdi Saadat Chowdhury , YooJung Choi , Paulo Shakarian

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

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown promising performance for knowledge graph reasoning. A recent variant of GNN called progressive relational graph neural network (PRGNN), utilizes relational rules to infer missing knowledge in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Shuhan Wu , Huaiyu Wan , Wei Chen , Yuting Wu , Junfeng Shen , Youfang Lin

Fairness and robustness play vital roles in trustworthy machine learning. Observing safety-critical needs in various annotation-expensive vision applications, we introduce a novel learning framework, Fair Robust Active Learning (FRAL),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Tsung-Han Wu , Hung-Ting Su , Shang-Tse Chen , Winston H. Hsu

Standard software analytics often involves having a large amount of data with labels in order to commission models with acceptable performance. However, prior work has shown that such requirements can be expensive, taking several weeks to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Huy Tu , Tim Menzies

We present Searn, an algorithm for integrating search and learning to solve complex structured prediction problems such as those that occur in natural language, speech, computational biology, and vision. Searn is a meta-algorithm that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-07-07 Hal Daumé , John Langford , Daniel Marcu

We present the Multi-vAlue Rule Set (MARS) model for interpretable classification with feature efficient presentations. MARS introduces a more generalized form of association rules that allows multiple values in a condition. Rules of this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Tong Wang

A key task in multi-label classification is modeling the structure between the involved classes. Modeling this structure by probabilistic and interpretable means enables application in a broad variety of tasks such as zero-shot learning or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-08 Michael Kirchhof , Lena Schmid , Christopher Reining , Michael ten Hompel , Markus Pauly

In this paper, we study the problem of learning probabilistic logical rules for inductive and interpretable link prediction. Despite the importance of inductive link prediction, most previous works focused on transductive link prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Ali Sadeghian , Mohammadreza Armandpour , Patrick Ding , Daisy Zhe Wang

State estimation or filtering serves as a fundamental task to enable intelligent decision-making in applications such as autonomous vehicles, robotics, healthcare monitoring, smart grids, intelligent transportation, and predictive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Aamir Hussain Chughtai

Remarkable achievements have been attained by deep neural networks in various applications. However, the increasing depth and width of such models also lead to explosive growth in both storage and computation, which has restricted the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Linfeng Zhang , Zhanhong Tan , Jiebo Song , Jingwei Chen , Chenglong Bao , Kaisheng Ma

The effects of social influence and homophily suggest that both network structure and node attribute information should inform the tasks of link prediction and node attribute inference. Recently, Yin et al. proposed Social-Attribute Network…

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We introduce the Rule Network with Selective Logical Operators (RNS), a novel neural architecture that employs \textbf{selective logical operators} to adaptively choose between AND and OR operations at each neuron during training. Unlike…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Bowen Wei , Ziwei Zhu

We study the on-line AdaTron learning of linearly non-separable rules by a simple perceptron. Training examples are provided by a perceptron with a non-monotonic transfer function which reduces to the usual monotonic relation in a certain…

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Rule-based models are essential for high-stakes decision-making due to their transparency and interpretability, but their discrete nature creates challenges for optimization and scalability. In this work, we present the Fuzzy Rule-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Javier Fumanal-Idocin , Raquel Fernandez-Peralta , Javier Andreu-Perez

Rule-based decision models are attractive due to their interpretability. However, existing rule induction methods often result in long and consequently less interpretable rule models. This problem can often be attributed to the lack of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-29 Remy Kusters , Yusik Kim , Marine Collery , Christian de Sainte Marie , Shubham Gupta

This work presents a novel graph neural network (GNN) architecture, the Feature-specific Interpretable Graph Neural Network (FIGNN), designed to enhance the interpretability of deep learning surrogate models defined on unstructured grids in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Riddhiman Raut , Romit Maulik , Shivam Barwey

The resurgence of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in visual recognition tasks, exemplified by ConvNeXt, has demonstrated their capability to rival transformer-based architectures through advanced training methodologies and ViT-inspired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Quan Bi Pay , Vishnu Monn Baskaran , Junn Yong Loo , KokSheik Wong , Simon See

In this paper, we propose LEURN: a neural network architecture that learns univariate decision rules. LEURN is a white-box algorithm that results into univariate trees and makes explainable decisions in every stage. In each layer, LEURN…

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