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As deep neural networks (DNNs) get adopted in an ever-increasing number of applications, explainability has emerged as a crucial desideratum for these models. In many real-world tasks, one of the principal reasons for requiring…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Vedant Nanda , Till Speicher , John P. Dickerson , Krishna P. Gummadi , Muhammad Bilal Zafar

One obstacle that so far prevents the introduction of machine learning models primarily in critical areas is the lack of explainability. In this work, a practicable approach of gaining explainability of deep artificial neural networks (NN)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Nina Schaaf , Marco F. Huber , Johannes Maucher

Interpreting and explaining the behavior of deep neural networks is critical for many tasks. Explainable AI provides a way to address this challenge, mostly by providing per-pixel relevance to the decision. Yet, interpreting such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Bowen Wang , Liangzhi Li , Yuta Nakashima , Hajime Nagahara

Concept-based XAI (C-XAI) approaches to explaining neural vision models are a promising field of research, since explanations that refer to concepts (i.e., semantically meaningful parts in an image) are intuitive to understand and go beyond…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Jae Hee Lee , Georgii Mikriukov , Gesina Schwalbe , Stefan Wermter , Diedrich Wolter

Convolutional neural networks have been successfully applied to various NLP tasks. However, it is not obvious whether they model different linguistic patterns such as negation, intensification, and clause compositionality to help the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Mahnaz Koupaee , William Yang Wang

Explainable Artificial Intelligence has gained significant attention due to the widespread use of complex deep learning models in high-stake domains such as medicine, finance, and autonomous cars. However, different explanations often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Weronika Hryniewska-Guzik , Luca Longo , Przemysław Biecek

Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable performance in various text-based tasks but often lack interpretability, making them less suitable for applications where transparency is critical. To address this, we propose ProtoLens, a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Bowen Wei , Ziwei Zhu

Concept Activation Vectors (CAVs) offer insights into neural network decision-making by linking human friendly concepts to the model's internal feature extraction process. However, when a new set of CAVs is discovered, they must still be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Laines Schmalwasser , Jakob Gawlikowski , Joachim Denzler , Julia Niebling

The black-box nature of deep learning models prevents them from being completely trusted in domains like biomedicine. Most explainability techniques do not capture the concept-based reasoning that human beings follow. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Avinash Kori , Parth Natekar , Ganapathy Krishnamurthi , Balaji Srinivasan

In many practical applications, deep neural networks have been typically deployed to operate as a black box predictor. Despite the high amount of work on interpretability and high demand on the reliability of these systems, they typically…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Martin Stano , Wanda Benesova , Lukas Samuel Martak

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL), through learning policies or values represented by neural networks, has successfully addressed many complex control problems. However, the neural networks introduced by DRL lack interpretability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Zeyu Jiang , Hai Huang , Xingquan Zuo

A major prerequisite for the application of machine learning models in clinical decision making is trust and interpretability. Current explainability studies in the neuroimaging community have mostly focused on explaining individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Fabian Eitel , Anna Melkonyan , Kerstin Ritter

In the area of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), fine-grained vehicle classification systems play an essential role. Recently, the authors have presented a novel vision-based classification approach in which standard end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Andreas Caduff , Klaus Zahn , Jonas Hofstetter , Martin Rechsteiner , Patrick Flaig

Interpreting the decision logic behind effective deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) on images complements the success of deep learning models. However, the existing methods can only interpret some specific decision logic on individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Peter Cho-Ho Lam , Lingyang Chu , Maxim Torgonskiy , Jian Pei , Yong Zhang , Lanjun Wang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have recently achieved remarkably strong performance on the practically important task of sentence classification (kim 2014, kalchbrenner 2014, johnson 2014). However, these models require practitioners…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-08 Ye Zhang , Byron Wallace

We introduce SelfExplain, a novel self-explaining model that explains a text classifier's predictions using phrase-based concepts. SelfExplain augments existing neural classifiers by adding (1) a globally interpretable layer that identifies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Dheeraj Rajagopal , Vidhisha Balachandran , Eduard Hovy , Yulia Tsvetkov

Explainability of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has been garnering increasing attention in recent years. Of the various explainability approaches, concept-based techniques stand out for their ability to utilize human-meaningful concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Fatemeh Aghaeipoor , Dorsa Asgarian , Mohammad Sabokrou

Machine learning solutions for pattern classification problems are nowadays widely deployed in society and industry. However, the lack of transparency and accountability of most accurate models often hinders their safe use. Thus, there is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Gonzalo Nápoles , Yamisleydi Salgueiro , Isel Grau , Maikel Leon Espinosa

Concept-based Models are a class of inherently explainable networks that improve upon standard Deep Neural Networks by providing a rationale behind their predictions using human-understandable `concepts'. With these models being highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Sanchit Sinha , Aidong Zhang

Concept-based interpretability methods are a popular form of explanation for deep learning models which provide explanations in the form of high-level human interpretable concepts. These methods typically find concept activation vectors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Angus Nicolson , Yarin Gal , J. Alison Noble