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We present a new direction for increasing the interpretability of deep neural networks (DNNs) by promoting weight-input alignment during training. For this, we propose to replace the linear transforms in DNNs by our B-cos transform. As we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Moritz Böhle , Mario Fritz , Bernt Schiele

B-cos Networks have been shown to be effective for obtaining highly human interpretable explanations of model decisions by architecturally enforcing stronger alignment between inputs and weight. B-cos variants of convolutional networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Shreyash Arya , Sukrut Rao , Moritz Böhle , Bernt Schiele

We introduce B-cos GNNs, an inherently explainable class of graph neural networks whose predictions decompose exactly into per-node, per-feature contributions via a single input-dependent linear map. B-cos GNNs use linear (sum-based)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Joschka Groß , Mohammad Shaique Solanki , Verena Wolf

Faithfulness and interpretability are essential for deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) in safety-critical domains such as medical imaging. B-cos networks offer a promising solution by replacing standard linear layers with a weight-input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Marcel Kleinmann , Shashank Agnihotri , Margret Keuper

Transformers increasingly dominate the machine learning landscape across many tasks and domains, which increases the importance for understanding their outputs. While their attention modules provide partial insight into their inner…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Moritz Böhle , Mario Fritz , Bernt Schiele

Post-hoc explanation methods for black-box models often struggle with faithfulness and human interpretability due to the lack of explainability in current neural architectures. Meanwhile, B-cos networks have been introduced to improve model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Yifan Wang , Sukrut Rao , Ji-Ung Lee , Mayank Jobanputra , Vera Demberg

Vision Transformers (ViTs) and Swin Transformers (Swin) are currently state-of-the-art in computational pathology. However, domain experts are still reluctant to use these models due to their lack of interpretability. This is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Manuel Tran , Amal Lahiani , Yashin Dicente Cid , Melanie Boxberg , Peter Lienemann , Christian Matek , Sophia J. Wagner , Fabian J. Theis , Eldad Klaiman , Tingying Peng

This paper reviews recent studies in understanding neural-network representations and learning neural networks with interpretable/disentangled middle-layer representations. Although deep neural networks have exhibited superior performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Quanshi Zhang , Song-Chun Zhu

Neural networks have greatly boosted performance in computer vision by learning powerful representations of input data. The drawback of end-to-end training for maximal overall performance are black-box models whose hidden representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Patrick Esser , Robin Rombach , Björn Ommer

Interpretability of deep neural networks (DNNs) is essential since it enables users to understand the overall strengths and weaknesses of the models, conveys an understanding of how the models will behave in the future, and how to diagnose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Yinpeng Dong , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Bo Zhang

While deep neural networks (DNN) have become an effective computational tool, the prediction results are often criticized by the lack of interpretability, which is essential in many real-world applications such as health informatics.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Mengnan Du , Ninghao Liu , Qingquan Song , Xia Hu

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are deep learning frameworks which are well-known for their notable performance in classification tasks. Hence, many skeleton-based action recognition and segmentation (SBARS) algorithms benefit from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Babak Hosseini , Romain Montagne , Barbara Hammer

This paper proposes a generic method to learn interpretable convolutional filters in a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) for object classification, where each interpretable filter encodes features of a specific object part. Our method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Quanshi Zhang , Xin Wang , Ying Nian Wu , Huilin Zhou , Song-Chun Zhu

Model interpretability is a requirement in many applications in which crucial decisions are made by users relying on a model's outputs. The recent movement for "algorithmic fairness" also stipulates explainability, and therefore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Xuan Liu , Xiaoguang Wang , Stan Matwin

Binarized neural networks, or BNNs, show great promise in edge-side applications with resource limited hardware, but raise the concerns of reduced accuracy. Motivated by the complex neural networks, in this paper we introduce complex…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Yanfei Li , Tong Geng , Ang Li , Huimin Yu

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown appealing performance on various computer vision tasks in recent years. This motivates people to deploy CNNs to realworld applications. However, most of state-of-art CNNs require large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-09 Qinghao Hu , Peisong Wang , Jian Cheng

Hypercomplex neural networks are gaining increasing interest in the deep learning community. The attention directed towards hypercomplex models originates from several aspects, spanning from purely theoretical and mathematical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Eleonora Lopez , Eleonora Grassucci , Debora Capriotti , Danilo Comminiello

CNNs and computational models of biological vision share some fundamental principles, which opened new avenues of research. However, fruitful cross-field research is hampered by conventional CNN architectures being based on spatially and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Nergis Tomen , Silvia L. Pintea , Jan C. van Gemert

The success of recent deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) depends on learning hidden representations that can summarize the important factors of variation behind the data. However, CNNs often criticized as being black boxes that lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Bolei Zhou , David Bau , Aude Oliva , Antonio Torralba

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown exceptional performance for a range of medical imaging tasks. However, conventional CNNs are not able to explain their reasoning process, therefore limiting their adoption in clinical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Linde S. Hesse , Ana I. L. Namburete
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