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Intelligibility and accurate uncertainty estimation are crucial for reliable decision-making. In this paper, we propose EviNAM, an extension of evidential learning that integrates the interpretability of Neural Additive Models (NAMs) with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Sören Schleibaum , Anton Frederik Thielmann , Julian Teusch , Benjamin Säfken , Jörg P. Müller

Monumental advances in deep learning have led to unprecedented achievements across various domains. While the performance of deep neural networks is indubitable, the architectural design and interpretability of such models are nontrivial.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Zachariah Carmichael , Tim Moon , Sam Ade Jacobs

The apparent ``black box'' nature of neural networks is a barrier to adoption in applications where explainability is essential. This paper presents TAME (Trainable Attention Mechanism for Explanations), a method for generating explanation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Mariano Ntrougkas , Nikolaos Gkalelis , Vasileios Mezaris

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have received a lot of interest in the recent times. From the early spectral architectures that could only operate on undirected graphs per a transductive learning paradigm to the current state of the art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Pushkar Mishra , Aleksandra Piktus , Gerard Goossen , Fabrizio Silvestri

Graph foundation models (GFMs) have recently attracted interest due to the promise of graph neural network (GNN) architectures that generalize zero-shot across graphs of arbitrary scales, feature dimensions, and domains. While existing work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Benjamin Gutteridge , Michael Bronstein , Xiaowen Dong

Shape matching is a fundamental task in computer graphics and vision, with deep functional maps becoming a prominent paradigm. However, existing methods primarily focus on learning informative feature representations by constraining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Feifan Luo , Hongyang Chen

Foundation models have achieved remarkable success across many domains, relying on pretraining over vast amounts of data. Graph-structured data often lacks the same scale as unstructured data, making the development of graph foundation…

Graphs are fundamental data structures which concisely capture the relational structure in many important real-world domains, such as knowledge graphs, physical and social interactions, language, and chemistry. Here we introduce a powerful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Yujia Li , Oriol Vinyals , Chris Dyer , Razvan Pascanu , Peter Battaglia

Gradient-based interpretations often require an anchor point of comparison to avoid saturation in computing feature importance. We show that current baselines defined using static functions--constant mapping, averaging or blurring--inject…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Ching Lam Choi , Alexandre Duplessis , Serge Belongie

Embedding 3D morphable basis functions into deep neural networks opens great potential for models with better representation power. However, to faithfully learn those models from an image collection, it requires strong regularization to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Luan Tran , Feng Liu , Xiaoming Liu

Graphs serve as generic tools to encode the underlying relational structure of data. Often this graph is not given, and so the task of inferring it from nodal observations becomes important. Traditional approaches formulate a convex inverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Max Wasserman , Gonzalo Mateos

Multivariate time series have many applications, from healthcare and meteorology to life science. Although deep learning models have shown excellent predictive performance for time series, they have been criticised for being "black-boxes"…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Qiqi Su , Christos Kloukinas , Artur d'Avila Garcez

Recent work has seen the development of general purpose neural architectures that can be trained to perform tasks across diverse data modalities. General purpose models typically make few assumptions about the underlying data-structure and…

Graphs are a powerful data structure to represent relational data and are widely used to describe complex real-world data structures. Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGMs) have been well-developed in the past years to mathematically model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Chenqing Hua , Sitao Luan , Qian Zhang , Jie Fu

Feed-forward neural networks consist of a sequence of layers, in which each layer performs some processing on the information from the previous layer. A downside to this approach is that each layer (or module, as multiple modules can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Alex Lamb , Anirudh Goyal , Agnieszka Słowik , Michael Mozer , Philippe Beaudoin , Yoshua Bengio

Energy-based models (EBMs) are a simple yet powerful framework for generative modeling. They are based on a trainable energy function which defines an associated Gibbs measure, and they can be trained and sampled from via well-established…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Carles Domingo-Enrich , Alberto Bietti , Eric Vanden-Eijnden , Joan Bruna

Graphs neural networks (GNNs) learn node features by aggregating and combining neighbor information, which have achieved promising performance on many graph tasks. However, GNNs are mostly treated as black-boxes and lack human intelligible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Hao Yuan , Jiliang Tang , Xia Hu , Shuiwang Ji

While large transformer models excel in predictive performance, their lack of interpretability restricts their usefulness in high-stakes domains. To remedy this, we propose the Generalized Induction-Head Model (GIM), an interpretable model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Eunji Kim , Sriya Mantena , Weiwei Yang , Chandan Singh , Sungroh Yoon , Jianfeng Gao

Deep learning architectures based on convolutional neural networks tend to rely on continuous, smooth features. While this characteristics provides significant robustness and proves useful in many real-world tasks, it is strikingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zuzanna Buchnajzer , Kacper Dobek , Stanisław Hapke , Daniel Jankowski , Krzysztof Krawiec

We propose a principled convolutional neural pyramid (CNP) framework for general low-level vision and image processing tasks. It is based on the essential finding that many applications require large receptive fields for structure…

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