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In time-series domains where both predictive performance and interpretability are essential, deep neural networks achieve strong results but provide limited insight into how their predictions are made. Projection-based prototype networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Steven Song , Sahil Sethi , Brett Beaulieu-Jones , Robert L. Grossman

Explaining predictions of black-box neural networks is crucial when applied to decision-critical tasks. Thus, attribution maps are commonly used to identify important image regions, despite prior work showing that humans prefer explanations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Tom Nuno Wolf , Fabian Bongratz , Anne-Marie Rickmann , Sebastian Pölsterl , Christian Wachinger

Prototype-based meta-learning has emerged as a powerful technique for addressing few-shot learning challenges. However, estimating a deterministic prototype using a simple average function from a limited number of examples remains a fragile…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Yingjun Du , Zehao Xiao , Shengcai Liao , Cees Snoek

Prototypical parts networks combine the power of deep learning with the explainability of case-based reasoning to make accurate, interpretable decisions. They follow the this looks like that reasoning, representing each prototypical part…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Mateusz Pach , Dawid Rymarczyk , Koryna Lewandowska , Jacek Tabor , Bartosz Zieliński

Human-interpretable predictions are essential for deploying AI in medical imaging, yet most interpretable-by-design (IBD) frameworks require concept annotations for training data, which are costly and impractical to obtain in clinical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Md Nahiduzzaman , Steven Korevaar , Alireza Bab-Hadiashar , Ruwan Tennakoon

We propose prototypical networks for the problem of few-shot classification, where a classifier must generalize to new classes not seen in the training set, given only a small number of examples of each new class. Prototypical networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Jake Snell , Kevin Swersky , Richard S. Zemel

Part-prototype networks have recently become methods of interest as an interpretable alternative to many of the current black-box image classifiers. However, the interpretability of these methods from the perspective of human users has not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Omid Davoodi , Shayan Mohammadizadehsamakosh , Majid Komeili

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) use a set of human-interpretable concepts to predict the final task label, enabling domain experts to not only validate the CBM's predictions, but also intervene on incorrect concepts at test time. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Eric Enouen , Sainyam Galhotra

Deep neural networks have become ubiquitous for applications related to visual recognition and language understanding tasks. However, it is often prohibitive to use typical neural networks on devices like mobile phones or smart watches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Sujith Ravi

The lack of transparency of Deep Neural Networks continues to be a limitation that severely undermines their reliability and usage in high-stakes applications. Promising approaches to overcome such limitations are Prototype-Based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Jon Vadillo , Roberto Santana , Jose A. Lozano , Marta Kwiatkowska

We present ProtoConcepts, a method for interpretable image classification combining deep learning and case-based reasoning using prototypical parts. Existing work in prototype-based image classification uses a ``this looks like that''…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Chiyu Ma , Brandon Zhao , Chaofan Chen , Cynthia Rudin

Prototype-based methods use interpretable representations to address the black-box nature of deep learning models, in contrast to post-hoc explanation methods that only approximate such models. We propose the Neural Prototype Tree…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Meike Nauta , Ron van Bree , Christin Seifert

In this paper, we formalize the idea behind capsule nets of using a capsule vector rather than a neuron activation to predict the label of samples. To this end, we propose to learn a group of capsule subspaces onto which an input feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Liheng Zhang , Marzieh Edraki , Guo-Jun Qi

Prototypical part networks offer interpretable alternatives to black-box deep learning models by learning visual prototypes for classification. This work provides a comprehensive analysis of prototype formulations, comparing point-based and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Maximilian Xiling Li , Korbinian Franz Rudolf , Paul Mattes , Nils Blank , Rudolf Lioutikov

Continual learning constrains models to learn new tasks over time without forgetting what they have already learned. A key challenge in this setting is catastrophic forgetting, where learning new information causes the model to lose its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Federico Di Valerio , Michela Proietti , Alessio Ragno , Roberto Capobianco

Understanding the spatial architecture of the tumor microenvironment (TME) is critical to advance precision oncology. We present ProteinPNet, a novel framework based on prototypical part networks that discovers TME motifs from spatial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Louis McConnell , Jieran Sun , Theo Maffei , Raphael Gottardo , Marianna Rapsomaniki

When engineers train deep learning models, they are very much 'flying blind'. Commonly used methods for real-time training diagnostics, such as monitoring the train/test loss, are limited. Assessing a network's training process solely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Frank Schneider , Felix Dangel , Philipp Hennig

In this paper we propose a novel human-centered approach for detecting forgery in face images, using dynamic prototypes as a form of visual explanations. Currently, most state-of-the-art deepfake detections are based on black-box models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Loc Trinh , Michael Tsang , Sirisha Rambhatla , Yan Liu

There can be numerous electronic components on a given PCB, making the task of visual inspection to detect defects very time-consuming and prone to error, especially at scale. There has thus been significant interest in automatic PCB…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Brian Li , Steven Palayew , Francis Li , Saad Abbasi , Saeejith Nair , Alexander Wong

Prototypical network (PN) is a simple yet effective few shot learning strategy. It is a metric-based meta-learning technique where classification is performed by computing Euclidean distances to prototypical representations of each class.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Ranjana Roy Chowdhury , Deepti R. Bathula