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Large, publicly available clinical datasets have emerged as a novel resource for understanding disease heterogeneity and to explore personalization of therapy. These datasets are derived from data not originally collected for research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Anish Narain , Ritam Majumdar , Nikita Narayanan , Dominic Marshall , Sonali Parbhoo

We introduce Graph Concept Bottleneck (GCB) as a new paradigm for self-explainable text-attributed graph learning. GCB maps graphs into a subspace, concept bottleneck, where each concept is a meaningful phrase, and predictions are made…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Xiaoxue Han , Libo Zhang , Zining Zhu , Yue Ning

Unsupervised Concept Extraction aims to extract concepts from a single image; however, existing methods suffer from the inability to extract composable intrinsic concepts. To address this, this paper introduces a new task called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Hanyu Shi , Hong Tao , Guoheng Huang , Jianbin Jiang , Xuhang Chen , Chi-Man Pun , Shanhu Wang , Pan Pan

Concept bottleneck models (CBM) aim to improve model interpretability by predicting human level "concepts" in a bottleneck within a deep learning model architecture. However, how the predicted concepts are used in predicting the target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Matthew Shen , Aliyah Hsu , Abhineet Agarwal , Bin Yu

We seek to learn models that we can interact with using high-level concepts: if the model did not think there was a bone spur in the x-ray, would it still predict severe arthritis? State-of-the-art models today do not typically support the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Pang Wei Koh , Thao Nguyen , Yew Siang Tang , Stephen Mussmann , Emma Pierson , Been Kim , Percy Liang

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) introduce interpretability to black-box deep learning models by predicting labels through human-understandable concepts. However, unlike humans, who identify objects at different levels of abstraction using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Haodong Xie , Yujun Cai , Rahul Singh Maharjan , Yiwei Wang , Federico Tavella , Angelo Cangelosi

In this work, we introduce InfoDisent, a hybrid approach to explainability based on the information bottleneck principle. InfoDisent enables the disentanglement of information in the final layer of any pretrained model into atomic concepts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Łukasz Struski , Dawid Rymarczyk , Jacek Tabor

Interpretable models are designed to make decisions in a human-interpretable manner. Representatively, Concept Bottleneck Models (CBM) follow a two-step process of concept prediction and class prediction based on the predicted concepts. CBM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Eunji Kim , Dahuin Jung , Sangha Park , Siwon Kim , Sungroh Yoon

Given the accelerating progress of vision and language modeling, accurate evaluation of machine-generated image captions remains critical. In order to evaluate captions more closely to human preferences, metrics need to discriminate between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Koki Maeda , Shuhei Kurita , Taiki Miyanishi , Naoaki Okazaki

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) provide inherent interpretability by first mapping input samples to high-level semantic concepts, followed by a combination of these concepts for the final classification. However, the annotation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Yangyi Li , Mengdi Huai

This paper presents CountEx, a discriminative visual counting framework designed to address a key limitation of existing prompt-based methods: the inability to explicitly exclude visually similar distractors. While current approaches allow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yifeng Huang , Gia Khanh Nguyen , Minh Hoai

Open-world object detection, as a more general and challenging goal, aims to recognize and localize objects described by arbitrary category names. The recent work GLIP formulates this problem as a grounding problem by concatenating all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Lewei Yao , Jianhua Han , Youpeng Wen , Xiaodan Liang , Dan Xu , Wei Zhang , Zhenguo Li , Chunjing Xu , Hang Xu

The development of artificial intelligence systems for colonoscopy analysis often necessitates expert-annotated image datasets. However, limitations in dataset size and diversity impede model performance and generalisation. Image-text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Shuo Wang , Yan Zhu , Xiaoyuan Luo , Zhiwei Yang , Yizhe Zhang , Peiyao Fu , Manning Wang , Zhijian Song , Quanlin Li , Pinghong Zhou , Yike Guo

The multimodal deep neural networks, represented by CLIP, have generated rich downstream applications owing to their excellent performance, thus making understanding the decision-making process of CLIP an essential research topic. Due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Chenming Shang , Hengyuan Zhang , Hao Wen , Yujiu Yang

Machine unlearning in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) is typically performed at the image or instance level, making it difficult to precisely remove target knowledge without affecting unrelated semantics. This issue is especially pronounced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Shen Lin , Jing Lin , Junhao Dong , Piotr Koniusz , Li Xu

Explanations for Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) based on relevance of input pixels might be too unspecific to evaluate which and how input features impact model decisions. Especially in complex real-world domains like biology, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Bettina Finzel , Patrick Hilme , Johannes Rabold , Ute Schmid

Concept bottleneck models (CBMs), which predict human-interpretable concepts (e.g., nucleus shapes in cell images) before predicting the final output (e.g., cell type), provide insights into the decision-making processes of the model.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Winnie Pang , Xueyi Ke , Satoshi Tsutsui , Bihan Wen

(Renyi Qu's Master's Thesis) Recent advancements in interpretable models for vision-language tasks have achieved competitive performance; however, their interpretability often suffers due to the reliance on unstructured text outputs from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Renyi Qu , Mark Yatskar

The maturity of deep learning techniques has led in recent years to a breakthrough in object recognition in visual media. While for some specific benchmarks, neural techniques seem to match if not outperform human judgement, challenges are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-06-01 Sanchit Arora , Chuck Cho , Paul Fitzpatrick , Francois Scharffe

Ensuring fairness in image classification prevents models from perpetuating and amplifying bias. Concept bottleneck models (CBMs) map images to high-level, human-interpretable concepts before making predictions via a sparse, one-layer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Schrasing Tong , Antoine Salaun , Vincent Yuan , Annabel Adeyeri , Lalana Kagal