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While many deep learning (DL)-based networking systems have demonstrated superior performance, the underlying Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) remain blackboxes and stay uninterpretable for network operators. The lack of interpretability makes…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Zili Meng , Minhu Wang , Jiasong Bai , Mingwei Xu , Hongzi Mao , Hongxin Hu

One of the most prominent attributes of Neural Networks (NNs) constitutes their capability of learning to extract robust and descriptive features from high dimensional data, like images. Hence, such an ability renders their exploitation as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Ioannis Kansizoglou , Loukas Bampis , Antonios Gasteratos

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been used to create models for many complex analysis problems like image recognition and medical diagnosis. DNNs are a popular tool within machine learning due to their ability to model complex patterns and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Parth Patil , Ben Boardley , Jack Gardner , Emily Loiselle , Deerajkumar Parthipan

In science and medicine, model interpretations may be reported as discoveries of natural phenomena or used to guide patient treatments. In such high-stakes tasks, false discoveries may lead investigators astray. These applications would…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-18 Collin Burns , Jesse Thomason , Wesley Tansey

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated impressive performance on a wide array of tasks, but they are usually considered opaque since internal structure and learned parameters are not interpretable. In this paper, we re-examine the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Yinpeng Dong , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Fan Bao

Deep neural networks (DNNs) play a crucial role in the field of machine learning, demonstrating state-of-the-art performance across various application domains. However, despite their success, DNN-based models may occasionally exhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Guy Amir , Osher Maayan , Tom Zelazny , Guy Katz , Michael Schapira

Ongoing efforts to understand deep neural networks (DNN) have provided many insights, but DNNs remain incompletely understood. Improving DNN's interpretability has practical benefits, such as more accountable usage, better algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Erico Tjoa , Guan Cuntai

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in many tasks but it often comes at a high computational cost and memory usage. Compression techniques, such as pruning and quantization, are applied to reduce the memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Kimia Soroush , Mohsen Raji , Behnam Ghavami

Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods that incorporate deep neural networks (DNN), though powerful, often lack transparency. Their black-box characteristic hinders interpretability and reduces trustworthiness, particularly in critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Konrad Nowosadko , Franco Ruggeri , Ahmad Terra

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) deliver impressive performance but their black-box nature limits deployment in high-stakes domains requiring transparency. We introduce Compositional Function Networks (CFNs), a novel framework that builds…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Fang Li

Neural networks have greatly boosted performance in computer vision by learning powerful representations of input data. The drawback of end-to-end training for maximal overall performance are black-box models whose hidden representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Patrick Esser , Robin Rombach , Björn Ommer

Recent data-driven approaches to scene interpretation predominantly pose inference as an end-to-end black-box mapping, commonly performed by a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). However, decades of work on perceptual organization in both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Chi Li , M. Zeeshan Zia , Quoc-Huy Tran , Xiang Yu , Gregory D. Hager , Manmohan Chandraker

It is commonly believed that the hidden layers of deep neural networks (DNNs) attempt to extract informative features for learning tasks. In this paper, we formalize this intuition by showing that the features extracted by DNN coincide with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Shao-Lun Huang , Xiangxiang Xu , Lizhong Zheng , Gregory W. Wornell

Multivariate techniques and machine learning models have found numerous applications in High Energy Physics (HEP) research over many years. In recent times, AI models based on deep neural networks are becoming increasingly popular for many…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-11-24 Avik Roy , Mark S. Neubauer

Deep neural network (DNN) models have demonstrated impressive performance in various domains, yet their application in cognitive neuroscience is limited due to their lack of interpretability. In this study we employ two structurally…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Murat Kucukosmanoglu , Javier O. Garcia , Justin Brooks , Kanika Bansal

Deep learning has become an essential part of computer vision, with deep neural networks (DNNs) excelling in predictive performance. However, they often fall short in other critical quality dimensions, such as robustness, calibration, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Robin Hesse , Doğukan Bağcı , Bernt Schiele , Simone Schaub-Meyer , Stefan Roth

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

In recent years, deep neural networks have been applied to obtain high performance of prediction, classification, and pattern recognition. However, the weights in these deep neural networks are difficult to be explained. Although a linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Chi-Hua Chen

Spectral-spatial based deep learning models have recently proven to be effective in hyperspectral image (HSI) classification for various earth monitoring applications such as land cover classification and agricultural monitoring. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Yue Shi , Liangxiu Han , Wenjiang Huang , Sheng Chang , Yingying Dong , Darren Dancey , Lianghao Han

Deep learning algorithms have recently shown to be a successful tool in estimating parameters of statistical models for which simulation is easy, but likelihood computation is challenging. But the success of these approaches depends on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-20 Amanda Lenzi , Haavard Rue