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Many statistical learning models hold an assumption that the training data and the future unlabeled data are drawn from the same distribution. However, this assumption is difficult to fulfill in real-world scenarios and creates barriers in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Yuxin Ma , Arlen Fan , Jingrui He , Arun Reddy Nelakurthi , Ross Maciejewski

This paper proposes a method to modify traditional convolutional neural networks (CNNs) into interpretable CNNs, in order to clarify knowledge representations in high conv-layers of CNNs. In an interpretable CNN, each filter in a high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Quanshi Zhang , Ying Nian Wu , Song-Chun Zhu

It has been demonstrated that artificial neural networks like autoencoders or Siamese networks encode meaningful concepts in their latent spaces. However, there does not exist a comprehensive framework for retrieving this information in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Sebastian J. Wetzel , Zakaria Patel

Large-scale pre-trained vision foundation models, such as CLIP, have become de facto backbones for various vision tasks. However, due to their black-box nature, understanding the underlying rules behind these models' predictions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Haozhe Chen , Junfeng Yang , Carl Vondrick , Chengzhi Mao

Conventionally, AI models are thought to trade off explainability for lower accuracy. We develop a training strategy that not only leads to a more explainable AI system for object classification, but as a consequence, suffers no perceptible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Andrea Zunino , Sarah Adel Bargal , Riccardo Volpi , Mehrnoosh Sameki , Jianming Zhang , Stan Sclaroff , Vittorio Murino , Kate Saenko

Network interpretation as an effort to reveal the features learned by a network remains largely visualization-based. In this paper, our goal is to tackle semantic network interpretation at both filter and decision level. For filter-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Pei Guo , Ryan Farrell

Modern deep neural networks have now reached human-level performance across a variety of tasks. However, unlike humans they lack the ability to explain their decisions by showing where and telling what concepts guided them. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Itay Benou , Tammy Riklin-Raviv

Image classification is an essential part of computer vision which assigns a given input image to a specific category based on the similarity evaluation within given criteria. While promising classifiers can be obtained through deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Emma Andrews , Prabhat Mishra

We propose a novel explanation method that explains the decisions of a deep neural network by investigating how the intermediate representations at each layer of the deep network were refined during the training process. This way we can a)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Lukas Pfahler , Katharina Morik

It has long been considered a significant problem to improve the visual quality of lossy image and video compression. Recent advances in computing power together with the availability of large training data sets has increased interest in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Aaditya Prakash , Nick Moran , Solomon Garber , Antonella DiLillo , James Storer

Deep neural networks are able to solve tasks across a variety of domains and modalities of data. Despite many empirical successes, we lack the ability to clearly understand and interpret the learned internal mechanisms that contribute to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Christopher Grimm , Dilip Arumugam , Siddharth Karamcheti , David Abel , Lawson L. S. Wong , Michael L. Littman

This paper presents a novel framework for demystification of convolutional deep learning models for time-series analysis. This is a step towards making informed/explainable decisions in the domain of time-series, powered by deep learning.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui , Dominik Mercier , Mohsin Munir , Andreas Dengel , Sheraz Ahmed

Deep convolutional neural networks have achieved impressive performance on a broad range of problems, beating prior art on established benchmarks, but it often remains unclear what are the representations learnt by those systems and how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Sen He , Nicolas Pugeault

Explainable machine learning significantly improves the transparency of deep neural networks. However, existing work is constrained to explaining the behavior of individual model predictions, and lacks the ability to transfer the…

In an effort to understand the meaning of the intermediate representations captured by deep networks, recent papers have tried to associate specific semantic concepts to individual neural network filter responses, where interesting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Ruth Fong , Andrea Vedaldi

In the last few years we have seen a growing interest in machine learning approaches to computer vision and, especially, to semantic labeling. Nowadays state of the art systems use deep learning on millions of labeled images with very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-08-12 Marco Gori , Marco Lippi , Marco Maggini , Stefano Melacci

Deep generative models rely on their inductive bias to facilitate generalization, especially for problems with high dimensional data, like images. However, empirical studies have shown that variational autoencoders (VAE) and generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Markos Georgopoulos , Grigorios Chrysos , Maja Pantic , Yannis Panagakis

Deep latent variable models learn condensed representations of data that, hopefully, reflect the inner workings of the studied phenomena. Unfortunately, these latent representations are not statistically identifiable, meaning they cannot be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-02 Stas Syrota , Yevgen Zainchkovskyy , Johnny Xi , Benjamin Bloem-Reddy , Søren Hauberg

Understanding the decision-making processes of neural networks is a central goal of mechanistic interpretability. In the context of Large Language Models (LLMs), this involves uncovering the underlying mechanisms and identifying the roles…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Nils Feldhus , Laura Kopf

When performing data classification over a stream of continuously occurring instances, a key challenge is to develop an open-world classifier that anticipates instances from an unknown class. Studies addressing this problem, typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Yang Gao , Swarup Chandra , Zhuoyi Wang , Latifur Khan