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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) learn abstract features to perform object classification, but understanding these features remains challenging due to difficult-to-interpret results or high computational costs. We propose an automatic…

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Sentiment analysis is known as one of the most crucial tasks in the field of natural language processing and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is one of those prominent models that is commonly used for this aim. Although convolutional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Hossein Sadr , Mozhdeh Nazari Solimandarabi , Mir Mohsen Pedram , Mohammad Teshnehlab

Understanding how the human brain progresses from processing simple linguistic inputs to performing high-level reasoning is a fundamental challenge in neuroscience. While modern large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Linyang He , Tianjun Zhong , Richard Antonello , Gavin Mischler , Micah Goldblum , Nima Mesgarani

It is widely believed that learning good representations is one of the main reasons for the success of deep neural networks. Although highly intuitive, there is a lack of theory and systematic approach quantitatively characterizing what…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Liwei Wang , Lunjia Hu , Jiayuan Gu , Yue Wu , Zhiqiang Hu , Kun He , John Hopcroft

As the applications of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in sensitive areas like Political Profiling, Review of Essays in Education, etc. proliferate, there is a great need for increasing transparency in NLP models to build trust with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Adel Rahimi , Shaurya Jain

In this paper, convolutional layers of pre-trained VGG16 model are analyzed. The analysis is based on the responses of neurons to the images of classes in ImageNet database. First, a visualization method is proposed in order to illustrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Zahra Sadeghi

Deep neural networks have shown their profound impact on achieving human level performance in visual saliency prediction. However, it is still unclear how they learn the task and what it means in terms of understanding human visual system.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Sai Phani Kumar Malladi , Jayanta Mukhopadhyay , Chaker Larabi , Santanu Chaudhury

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable capabilities across a wide range of tasks, yet their internal mechanisms remain largely opaque. In this paper, we introduce a simple, lightweight, and broadly applicable method with a focus on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yixiu Zhao , Xiaozhi Wang , Zijun Yao , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li

We introduce the problem of learning distributed representations of edits. By combining a "neural editor" with an "edit encoder", our models learn to represent the salient information of an edit and can be used to apply edits to new inputs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Pengcheng Yin , Graham Neubig , Miltiadis Allamanis , Marc Brockschmidt , Alexander L. Gaunt

Common methods for interpreting neural models in natural language processing typically examine either their structure or their behavior, but not both. We propose a methodology grounded in the theory of causal mediation analysis for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Jesse Vig , Sebastian Gehrmann , Yonatan Belinkov , Sharon Qian , Daniel Nevo , Simas Sakenis , Jason Huang , Yaron Singer , Stuart Shieber

Word embeddings have been demonstrated to benefit NLP tasks impressively. Yet, there is room for improvement in the vector representations, because current word embeddings typically contain unnecessary information, i.e., noise. We propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-07 Kim Anh Nguyen , Sabine Schulte im Walde , Ngoc Thang Vu

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are a promising research direction for building power-efficient information processing systems, especially for temporal tasks such as speech recognition. In SNNs, delays refer to the time needed for one spike…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Ilyass Hammouamri , Ismail Khalfaoui-Hassani , Timothée Masquelier

Large pre-trained language models help to achieve state of the art on a variety of natural language processing (NLP) tasks, nevertheless, they still suffer from forgetting when incrementally learning a sequence of tasks. To alleviate this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Mingxu Tao , Yansong Feng , Dongyan Zhao

Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable multilingual capabilities without being pre-trained on specially curated multilingual parallel corpora. It remains a challenging problem to explain the underlying mechanisms by which LLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Tianyi Tang , Wenyang Luo , Haoyang Huang , Dongdong Zhang , Xiaolei Wang , Xin Zhao , Furu Wei , Ji-Rong Wen

Neural language models (LMs) are typically trained using only lexical features, such as surface forms of words. In this paper, we argue this deprives the LM of crucial syntactic signals that can be detected at high confidence using existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Duncan Blythe , Alan Akbik , Roland Vollgraf

The success of pre-trained contextualized representations has prompted researchers to analyze them for the presence of linguistic information. Indeed, it is natural to assume that these pre-trained representations do encode some level of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Karolina Stańczak , Lucas Torroba Hennigen , Adina Williams , Ryan Cotterell , Isabelle Augenstein

Continual learning is the ability to acquire new knowledge without forgetting the previously learned one, assuming no further access to past training data. Neural network approximators trained with gradient descent are known to fail in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Rodrigue Siry

Breakthroughs in deep learning and memory networks have made major advances in natural language understanding. Language is sequential and information carried through the sequence can be captured through memory networks. Learning the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Anupiya Nugaliyadde

In conventional deep learning, the number of neurons typically remains fixed during training. However, insights from biology suggest that the human hippocampus undergoes continuous neuron generation and pruning of neurons over the course of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Taigo Sakai , Kazuhiro Hotta

Artificial Neural Networks, the building blocks of AI, were inspired by the human brain's network of neurons. Over the years, these networks have evolved to replicate the complex capabilities of the brain, allowing them to handle tasks such…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-11 Sanaz Saki Norouzi , Mohammad Masjedi , Pascal Hitzler