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Model compression and knowledge distillation have been successfully applied for cross-architecture and cross-domain transfer learning. However, a key requirement is that training examples are in correspondence across the domains. We show…

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Building on existing work with Hyperblocks, which classify data using minimum and maximum bounds for each attribute, we focus on enhancing interpretability, decreasing training time, and reducing model complexity without sacrificing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Austin Snyder , Ryan Gallagher , Boris Kovalerchuk

The deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved great success in learning complex patterns with strong predictive power, but they are often thought of as "black box" models without a sufficient level of transparency and interpretability. It…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Agus Sudjianto , William Knauth , Rahul Singh , Zebin Yang , Aijun Zhang

Neural networks are often described as black boxes, reflecting the significant challenge of understanding their internal workings and interactions. We propose a different perspective that challenges the prevailing view: rather than being…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Shuchen Wu , Stephan Alaniz , Shyamgopal Karthik , Peter Dayan , Eric Schulz , Zeynep Akata

Deep learning as represented by the artificial deep neural networks (DNNs) has achieved great success in many important areas that deal with text, images, videos, graphs, and so on. However, the black-box nature of DNNs has become one of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Fenglei Fan , Jinjun Xiong , Mengzhou Li , Ge Wang

Reading comprehension is a challenging task in natural language processing and requires a set of skills to be solved. While current approaches focus on solving the task as a whole, in this paper, we propose to use a neural network `skill'…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Todor Mihaylov , Zornitsa Kozareva , Anette Frank

Knowledge distillation involves transferring the predictive capabilities of large, high-performing AI models (teachers) to smaller models (students) that can operate in environments with limited computing power. In this paper, we address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Pattarawat Chormai , Ali Hashemi , Klaus-Robert Müller , Grégoire Montavon

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

Machine Learning (ML) models are often complex and difficult to interpret due to their 'black-box' characteristics. Interpretability of a ML model is usually defined as the degree to which a human can understand the cause of decisions…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-06-25 Simon Kocbek , Primoz Kocbek , Leona Cilar , Gregor Stiglic

Transfer learning from ImageNet is the go-to approach when applying deep learning to medical images. The approach is either to fine-tune a pre-trained model or use it as a feature extractor. Most modern architecture contain batch…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Fahdi Kanavati , Masayuki Tsuneki

The increasing availability of large collections of electronic health record (EHR) data and unprecedented technical advances in deep learning (DL) have sparked a surge of research interest in developing DL based clinical decision support…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Di Jin , Elena Sergeeva , Wei-Hung Weng , Geeticka Chauhan , Peter Szolovits

Transfer learning is an important field of machine learning in general, and particularly in the context of fully autonomous driving, which needs to be solved simultaneously for many different domains, such as changing weather conditions and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Oliver Scheel , Loren Schwarz , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

An important line of research attempts to explain CNN image classifier predictions and intermediate layer representations in terms of human-understandable concepts. Previous work supports that deep representations are linearly separable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Alexandros Doumanoglou , Stylianos Asteriadis , Dimitrios Zarpalas

Understanding black-box machine learning models is crucial for their widespread adoption. Learning globally interpretable models is one approach, but achieving high performance with them is challenging. An alternative approach is to explain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Jinsung Yoon , Sercan O. Arik , Tomas Pfister

We discuss our insights into interpretable artificial-intelligence (AI) models, and how they are essential in the context of developing ethical AI systems, as well as data-driven solutions compliant with the Sustainable Development Goals…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Ricardo Vinuesa , Beril Sirmacek

Through extensive experience developing and explaining machine learning (ML) applications for real-world domains, we have learned that ML models are only as interpretable as their features. Even simple, highly interpretable model types such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Alexandra Zytek , Ignacio Arnaldo , Dongyu Liu , Laure Berti-Equille , Kalyan Veeramachaneni

Ensembles improve prediction performance and allow uncertainty quantification by aggregating predictions from multiple models. In deep ensembling, the individual models are usually black box neural networks, or recently, partially…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-26 Lucas Kook , Andrea Götschi , Philipp FM Baumann , Torsten Hothorn , Beate Sick

With the advent of highly predictive but opaque deep learning models, it has become more important than ever to understand and explain the predictions of such models. Existing approaches define interpretability as the inverse of complexity…

One of the desired key properties of deep learning models is the ability to generalise to unseen samples. When provided with new samples that are (perceptually) similar to one or more training samples, deep learning models are expected to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Katharina Hoedt , Arthur Flexer , Gerhard Widmer

Machine learning (ML) has seen significant growth in both popularity and importance. The high prediction accuracy of ML models is often achieved through complex black-box architectures that are difficult to interpret. This interpretability…

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