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Autoencoders exhibit impressive abilities to embed the data manifold into a low-dimensional latent space, making them a staple of representation learning methods. However, without explicit supervision, which is often unavailable, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Felix Leeb , Stefan Bauer , Michel Besserve , Bernhard Schölkopf

A rapidly growing area of research is the use of machine learning approaches such as autoencoders for dimensionality reduction of data and models in scientific applications. We show that the canonical formulation of autoencoders suffers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Andrey A. Popov , Arash Sarshar , Austin Chennault , Adrian Sandu

With the broader and highly successful usage of machine learning in industry and the sciences, there has been a growing demand for Explainable AI. Interpretability and explanation methods for gaining a better understanding about the problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Wojciech Samek , Grégoire Montavon , Sebastian Lapuschkin , Christopher J. Anders , Klaus-Robert Müller

We present a `CLAssifier-DECoder' architecture (\emph{ClaDec}) which facilitates the comprehension of the output of an arbitrary layer in a neural network (NN). It uses a decoder to transform the non-interpretable representation of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Johannes Schneider , Michalis Vlachos

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has shown great potential to enhance the reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs). However, due to the limited amount of information provided during the RLVR process, the model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhipeng Chen , Xiaobo Qin , Wayne Xin Zhao , Youbin Wu , Ji-Rong Wen

We present a new deep unfolding network for analysis-sparsity-based Compressed Sensing. The proposed network coined Decoding Network (DECONET) jointly learns a decoder that reconstructs vectors from their incomplete, noisy measurements and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Vicky Kouni , Yannis Panagakis

Language models (LMs) like GPT-4 are important in AI applications, but their opaque decision-making process reduces user trust, especially in safety-critical areas. We introduce LMExplainer, a novel knowledge-grounded explainer that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Zichen Chen , Jianda Chen , Yuanyuan Chen , Han Yu , Ambuj K Singh , Misha Sra

While invaluable for many computer vision applications, decomposing a natural image into intrinsic reflectance and shading layers represents a challenging, underdetermined inverse problem. As opposed to strict reliance on conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Qingnan Fan , Jiaolong Yang , Gang Hua , Baoquan Chen , David Wipf

Deep learning has achieved remarkable success in processing and managing unstructured data. However, its "black box" nature imposes significant limitations, particularly in sensitive application domains. While existing interpretable machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Wen-Dong Jiang , Chih-Yung Chang , Show-Jane Yen , Diptendu Sinha Roy

A common machine learning task is to discriminate between normal and anomalous data points. In practice, it is not always sufficient to reach high accuracy at this task, one also would like to understand why a given data point has been…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-23 Jacob Kauffmann , Klaus-Robert Müller , Grégoire Montavon

Empirical evidence shows that deep vision networks often represent concepts as directions in latent space with concept information written along directional components in the vector representation of the input. However, the mechanism to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Alexandros Doumanoglou , Kurt Driessens , Dimitrios Zarpalas

We investigate the prospect of reconstructing the ''cosmic distance ladder'' of the Universe using a novel deep learning framework called LADDER - Learning Algorithm for Deep Distance Estimation and Reconstruction. LADDER is trained on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-29 Rahul Shah , Soumadeep Saha , Purba Mukherjee , Utpal Garain , Supratik Pal

We implement a visual interpretability method Layer-wise Relevance Propagation (LRP) on top of 3D U-Net trained to perform lesion segmentation on the small dataset of multi-modal images provided by ISLES 2017 competition. We demonstrate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-14 Erico Tjoa , Guo Heng , Lu Yuhao , Cuntai Guan

As Vision-Language Models (VLMs) become increasingly sophisticated and widely used, it becomes more and more crucial to understand their decision-making process. Traditional explainability methods, designed for classification tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Walid Bousselham , Angie Boggust , Hendrik Strobelt , Hilde Kuehne

Efforts to interpret reinforcement learning (RL) models often rely on high-level techniques such as attribution or probing, which provide only correlational insights and coarse causal control. This work proposes replacing nonlinearities in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Narmeen Oozeer , Sinem Erisken , Alice Rigg

Despite their strong performance, Dense Passage Retrieval (DPR) models suffer from a lack of interpretability. In this work, we propose a novel interpretability framework that leverages Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) to decompose previously…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Seongwan Park , Taeklim Kim , Youngjoong Ko

The autoencoder is an unsupervised learning paradigm that aims to create a compact latent representation of data by minimizing the reconstruction loss. However, it tends to overlook the fact that most data (images) are embedded in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Alokendu Mazumder , Tirthajit Baruah , Bhartendu Kumar , Rishab Sharma , Vishwajeet Pattanaik , Punit Rathore

As an important technique for modeling the knowledge states of learners, the traditional knowledge tracing (KT) models have been widely used to support intelligent tutoring systems and MOOC platforms. Driven by the fast advancements of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Yu Lu , Deliang Wang , Qinggang Meng , Penghe Chen

Representations in the hidden layers of Deep Neural Networks (DNN) are often hard to interpret since it is difficult to project them into an interpretable domain. Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN) allow this projection, but existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Robert Schwarzenberg , Marc Hübner , David Harbecke , Christoph Alt , Leonhard Hennig

Recent work leverages Vision Foundation Models as image encoders to boost the generative performance of latent diffusion models (LDMs), as their semantic feature distributions are easy to learn. However, such semantic features often lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Siyu Liu , Chujie Qin , Hubery Yin , Qixin Yan , Zheng-Peng Duan , Chen Li , Jing Lyu , Chun-Le Guo , Chongyi Li