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In this paper, we propose a set theoretic approach for knowledge representation. While the syntax of an application domain is captured by set theoretic constructs including individuals, concepts and operators, knowledge is formalized by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-03-14 Yi Zhou

In designing generative models, it is commonly believed that in order to learn useful latent structure, we face a fundamental tension between expressivity and structure. In this paper we challenge this view by proposing a new approach to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-03 Alex Markham , Isaac Hirsch , Jeri A. Chang , Liam Solus , Bryon Aragam

Modern neural machine translation (NMT) models have achieved competitive performance in standard benchmarks. However, they have recently been shown to suffer limitation in compositional generalization, failing to effectively learn the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Yongjing Yin , Yafu Li , Fandong Meng , Jie Zhou , Yue Zhang

Neural network models are widely used in a variety of domains, often as black-box solutions, since they are not directly interpretable for humans. The field of explainable artificial intelligence aims at developing explanation methods to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Patrik Hammersborg , Inga Strümke

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

Explainable AI (XAI) methods typically focus on identifying essential input features or more abstract concepts for tasks like image or text classification. However, for algorithmic tasks like combinatorial optimization, these concepts may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Elad Shoham , Hadar Cohen , Khalil Wattad , Havana Rika , Dan Vilenchik

We model the process of human full interpretation of object images, namely the ability to identify and localize all semantic features and parts that are recognized by human observers. The task is approached by dividing the interpretation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Guy Ben-Yosef , Liav Assif , Shimon Ullman

Distributed word representations have been demonstrated to be effective in capturing semantic and syntactic regularities. Unsupervised representation learning from large unlabeled corpora can learn similar representations for those words…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Chunting Zhou , Chonglin Sun , Zhiyuan Liu , Francis C. M. Lau

Model explainability is essential for the creation of trustworthy Machine Learning models in healthcare. An ideal explanation resembles the decision-making process of a domain expert and is expressed using concepts or terminology that is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Sumedha Singla , Stephen Wallace , Sofia Triantafillou , Kayhan Batmanghelich

One of the key limitations of modern deep learning approaches lies in the amount of data required to train them. Humans, by contrast, can learn to recognize novel categories from just a few examples. Instrumental to this rapid learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Pavel Tokmakov , Yu-Xiong Wang , Martial Hebert

Continual learning studies how models can adapt to new tasks while retaining previously acquired knowledge. Although a broad spectrum of methods has been proposed to mitigate catastrophic forgetting, the field remains predominantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Katarzyna Filus , Kamil Faber , Roberto Corizzo , Christopher Kanan

Work done to uncover the knowledge encoded within pre-trained language models rely on annotated corpora or human-in-the-loop methods. However, these approaches are limited in terms of scalability and the scope of interpretation. We propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Basel Mousi , Nadir Durrani , Fahim Dalvi

Recent work on interpretability has focused on concept-based explanations, where deep learning models are explained in terms of high-level units of information, referred to as concepts. Concept learning models, however, have been shown to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga , Pietro Barbiero , Zohreh Shams , Dmitry Kazhdan , Umang Bhatt , Adrian Weller , Mateja Jamnik

Sentence representations are a critical component in NLP applications such as retrieval, question answering, and text classification. They capture the meaning of a sentence, enabling machines to understand and reason over human language. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Abhinav Ramesh Kashyap , Thanh-Tung Nguyen , Viktor Schlegel , Stefan Winkler , See-Kiong Ng , Soujanya Poria

A key issue in cognitive science concerns the fundamental psychological processes that underlie the formation and retrieval of multiple types of concepts in short-term and long-term memory (STM and LTM, respectively). We propose that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Dmitry Bennett , Fernand Gobet

Recently, pre-trained transformer-based models have achieved great success in the task of definition generation (DG). However, previous encoder-decoder models lack effective representation learning to contain full semantic components of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Hengyuan Zhang , Dawei Li , Shiping Yang , Yanran Li

Reinforcement Learning (RL) can enable agents to learn complex tasks. However, it is difficult to interpret the knowledge and reuse it across tasks. Inductive biases can address such issues by explicitly providing generic yet useful…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Thomas Schnürer , Malte Probst , Horst-Michael Gross

Unsupervised learning of low-dimensional, semantic representations of words and entities has recently gained attention. In this paper we describe the Semantic Entity Retrieval Toolkit (SERT) that provides implementations of our previously…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Christophe Van Gysel , Maarten de Rijke , Evangelos Kanoulas

Trajectory representation learning on a network enhances our understanding of vehicular traffic patterns and benefits numerous downstream applications. Existing approaches using classic machine learning or deep learning embed trajectories…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Yuanbo Tang , Zhiyuan Peng , Yang Li

We propose Automatic Feature Explanation using Contrasting Concepts (FALCON), an interpretability framework to explain features of image representations. For a target feature, FALCON captions its highly activating cropped images using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Neha Kalibhat , Shweta Bhardwaj , Bayan Bruss , Hamed Firooz , Maziar Sanjabi , Soheil Feizi