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Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) is increasingly used to analyze the behavior of neural networks. Concept activation uses human-interpretable concepts to explain neural network behavior. This study aimed at assessing the…

Given a question-image input, the Visual Commonsense Reasoning (VCR) model can predict an answer with the corresponding rationale, which requires inference ability from the real world. The VCR task, which calls for exploiting the…

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Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have shown promising in-context learning (ICL) capabilities, but scaling to many-shot settings remains difficult due to limited context length and high inference cost. To address these challenges,…

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Existing weakly supervised group activity recognition methods rely on object detectors or attention mechanisms to capture key areas automatically. However, they overlook the semantic information associated with captured areas, which may…

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The Active Contour Model (ACM) is a standard image analysis technique whose numerous variants have attracted an enormous amount of research attention across multiple fields. Incorrectly, however, the ACM's differential-equation-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Ali Hatamizadeh , Debleena Sengupta , Demetri Terzopoulos

With the rise of deep neural networks, especially in safety-critical applications, robustness and interpretability are crucial to ensure their trustworthiness. Recent advances in 3D-aware classifiers that map image features to volumetric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Nhi Pham , Artur Jesslen , Bernt Schiele , Adam Kortylewski , Jonas Fischer

Currently end-to-end deep learning based open-domain dialogue systems remain black box models, making it easy to generate irrelevant contents with data-driven models. Specifically, latent variables are highly entangled with different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Ye Wang , Jingbo Liao , Hong Yu , Guoyin Wang , Xiaoxia Zhang , Li Liu

Reliable detection of surrounding objects is critical for the safe operation of connected automated vehicles (CAVs). However, inherent limitations such as the restricted perception range and occlusion effects compromise the reliability of…

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Deep Learning models encode rich semantic information in their hidden representations. However, it remains challenging to understand which parts of this information models actually rely on when making predictions. A promising line of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Xuemin Yu , Ankur Garg , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou , Hassan Sajjad

Recent advancements in post-hoc and inherently interpretable methods have markedly enhanced the explanations of black box classifier models. These methods operate either through post-analysis or by integrating concept learning during model…

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Semantic segmentation and instance level segmentation made substantial progress in recent years due to the emergence of deep neural networks (DNNs). A number of deep architectures with Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) were proposed that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Pulak Purkait , Christopher Zach , Ian Reid

How do two deep neural networks differ in how they arrive at a decision? Measuring the similarity of deep networks has been a long-standing open question. Most existing methods provide a single number to measure the similarity of two…

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Existing research for image captioning usually represents an image using a scene graph with low-level facts (objects and relations) and fails to capture the high-level semantics. In this paper, we propose a Theme Concepts extended Image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Zhihao Fan , Zhongyu Wei , Siyuan Wang , Ruize Wang , Zejun Li , Haijun Shan , Xuanjing Huang

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are increasingly being used in critical systems, where robustness and alignment are crucial. In this context, the field of explainable artificial intelligence has proposed the generation of high-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Andres Felipe Posada-Moreno , Nikita Surya , Sebastian Trimpe

Interpreting the decisions of deep image classifiers remains challenging, particularly in black-box settings where model internals are inaccessible. We introduce OCCAM, a framework for open-set causal concept explanation and ontology…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Chiara Maria Russo , Simone Carnemolla , Simone Palazzo , Daniela Giordano , Concetto Spampinato , Matteo Pennisi

Distributed word vector spaces are considered hard to interpret which hinders the understanding of natural language processing (NLP) models. In this work, we introduce a new method to interpret arbitrary samples from a word vector space. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Robert Schwarzenberg , Lisa Raithel , David Harbecke

Concept formation in transformer language models is depth-extended, not a single-layer event: concepts emerge gradually across a contiguous region of the residual stream. Mechanistic interpretability methods identify the single layer of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 James Henry

Diverse and accurate vision+language modeling is an important goal to retain creative freedom and maintain user engagement. However, adequately capturing the intricacies of diversity in language models is challenging. Recent works commonly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Jyoti Aneja , Harsh Agrawal , Dhruv Batra , Alexander Schwing

Decisions made by convolutional neural networks(CNN) can be understood and explained by visualizing discriminative regions on images. To this end, Class Activation Map (CAM) based methods were proposed as powerful interpretation tools,…

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