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Recently, several methods have leveraged deep generative modeling to produce example-based explanations of image classifiers. Despite producing visually stunning results, these methods are largely disconnected from classical explainability…

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Learning an explainable classifier often results in low accuracy model or ends up with a huge rule set, while learning a deep model is usually more capable of handling noisy data at scale, but with the cost of hard to explain the result and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Yuanlong Li , Gaopan Huang , Min Zhou , Chuan Fu , Honglin Qiao , Yan He

While generative models such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) have proven fruitful in topic modeling, they often require detailed assumptions and careful specification of hyperparameters. Such model complexity issues only compound when…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Ryan J. Gallagher , Kyle Reing , David Kale , Greg Ver Steeg

Motivated by extracting and summarizing relevant information in short sentence settings, such as satisfaction questionnaires, hotel reviews, and X/Twitter, we study the problem of clustering words in a hierarchical fashion. In particular,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Eliabelle Mauduit , Andrea Simonetto

While existing hierarchical text classification (HTC) methods attempt to capture label hierarchies for model training, they either make local decisions regarding each label or completely ignore the hierarchy information during inference. To…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Yuning Mao , Jingjing Tian , Jiawei Han , Xiang Ren

For the study of citation networks, a challenging problem is modeling the high clustering. Existing studies indicate that the promising way to model the high clustering is a copying strategy, i.e., a paper copies the references of its…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-19 Fu-Xin Ren , Xue-Qi Cheng , Hua-Wei Shen

We present a new recurrent neural network topology to enhance state-of-the-art machine learning systems by incorporating a broader context. Our approach overcomes recent limitations with extended narratives through a multi-layered…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Patrick Huber , Jan Niehues , Alex Waibel

Modern deep learning models are notoriously opaque, which has motivated the development of methods for interpreting how deep models predict. This goal is usually approached with attribution method, which assesses the influence of features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Yiming Ju , Yuanzhe Zhang , Zhao Yang , Zhongtao Jiang , Kang Liu , Jun Zhao

We propose a new self-organizing hierarchical softmax formulation for neural-network-based language models over large vocabularies. Instead of using a predefined hierarchical structure, our approach is capable of learning word clusters with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-29 Yikang Shen , Shawn Tan , Chrisopher Pal , Aaron Courville

Recent advances in reinforcement-learning research have demonstrated impressive results in building algorithms that can out-perform humans in complex tasks. Nevertheless, creating reinforcement-learning systems that can build abstractions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Lucas Lehnert , Michael J. Frank , Michael L. Littman

Recent developments in generative artificial intelligence (AI) rely on machine learning techniques such as deep learning and generative modeling to achieve state-of-the-art performance across wide-ranging domains. These methods' surprising…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-27 Gemma E. Moran , Bryon Aragam

We propose a novel method to explain trained deep neural networks (DNNs), by distilling them into surrogate models using unsupervised clustering. Our method can be applied flexibly to any subset of layers of a DNN architecture and can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Yu-han Liu , Sercan O. Arik

Existing approaches to explaining deep learning models in NLP usually suffer from two major drawbacks: (1) the main model and the explaining model are decoupled: an additional probing or surrogate model is used to interpret an existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Zijun Sun , Chun Fan , Qinghong Han , Xiaofei Sun , Yuxian Meng , Fei Wu , Jiwei Li

Despite their great success in recent years, deep neural networks (DNN) are mainly black boxes where the results obtained by running through the network are difficult to understand and interpret. Compared to e.g. decision trees or bayesian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Jan Niclas Reimann , Andreas Schwung

A central challenge in large-scale decision-making under incomplete information is estimating reliable probabilities. Recent approaches use Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate explanatory factors and coarse-grained probability…

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Evaluating the performance of clustering models is a challenging task where the outcome depends on the definition of what constitutes a cluster. Due to this design, current existing metrics rarely handle multiple clustering models with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Louis Ohl , Fredrik Lindsten

Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition (IDRR) remains a challenging task due to the requirement for deep semantic understanding in the absence of explicit discourse markers. A further limitation is that existing methods only predict…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Heng Wang , Changxing Wu

The hierarchical structure inherent in many real-world datasets makes the modeling of such hierarchies a crucial objective in both unsupervised and supervised machine learning. While recent advancements have introduced deep architectures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Emanuele Palumbo , Moritz Vandenhirtz , Alain Ryser , Imant Daunhawer , Julia E. Vogt

Text documents can be described by a number of abstract concepts such as semantic category, writing style, or sentiment. Machine learning (ML) models have been trained to automatically map documents to these abstract concepts, allowing to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Leila Arras , Franziska Horn , Grégoire Montavon , Klaus-Robert Müller , Wojciech Samek

While deep neural networks have achieved impressive performance on a range of NLP tasks, these data-hungry models heavily rely on labeled data, which restricts their applications in scenarios where data annotation is expensive. Natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Ziqi Wang , Yujia Qin , Wenxuan Zhou , Jun Yan , Qinyuan Ye , Leonardo Neves , Zhiyuan Liu , Xiang Ren