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In safety-critical applications, practitioners are reluctant to trust neural networks when no interpretable explanations are available. Many attempts to provide such explanations revolve around pixel-based attributions or use previously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Armeen Taeb , Nicolo Ruggeri , Carina Schnuck , Fanny Yang

A key to deciphering the inner workings of neural networks is understanding what a model has learned. Promising methods for discovering learned features are based on analyzing activation values, whereby current techniques focus on analyzing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Alex Bäuerle , Daniel Jönsson , Timo Ropinski

Obtaining the human-like perception ability of abstracting visual concepts from concrete pixels has always been a fundamental and important target in machine learning research fields such as disentangled representation learning and scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Tao Yang , Yuwang Wang , Yan Lu , Nanning Zheng

Interpretability of Deep Neural Networks using concept-based models offers a promising way to explain model behavior through human-understandable concepts. A parallel line of research focuses on disentangling the data distribution into its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Sanchit Sinha , Guangzhi Xiong , Aidong Zhang

Deep neural networks can model images with rich latent representations, but they cannot naturally conceptualize structures of object categories in a human-perceptible way. This paper addresses the problem of learning object structures in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Yuting Zhang , Yijie Guo , Yixin Jin , Yijun Luo , Zhiyuan He , Honglak Lee

Deploying AI-powered systems requires trustworthy models supporting effective human interactions, going beyond raw prediction accuracy. Concept bottleneck models promote trustworthiness by conditioning classification tasks on an…

Despite outperforming the human in many tasks, deep neural network models are also criticized for the lack of transparency and interpretability in decision making. The opaqueness results in uncertainty and low confidence when deploying such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Huijun Wu , Chen Wang , Jie Yin , Kai Lu , Liming Zhu

Although deep neural networks have shown well-performance in various tasks, the poor interpretability of the models is always criticized. In the paper, we propose a new interpretable neural network method, by embedding neurons into the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Wei Han , Yangqiming Wang , Christian Böhm , Junming Shao

Interpretability is highly desired for deep neural network-based classifiers, especially when addressing high-stake decisions in medical imaging. Commonly used post-hoc interpretability methods have the limitation that they can produce…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-04 Sourya Sengupta , Mark A. Anastasio

Interpretability has become an important topic of research as more machine learning (ML) models are deployed and widely used to make important decisions. Most of the current explanation methods provide explanations through feature…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-09 Amirata Ghorbani , James Wexler , James Zou , Been Kim

Extracting time-varying latent variables from computational cognitive models is a key step in model-based neural analysis, which aims to understand the neural correlates of cognitive processes. However, existing methods only allow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Ti-Fen Pan , Jing-Jing Li , Bill Thompson , Anne Collins

In the field of eXplainable AI (XAI) in language models, the progression from local explanations of individual decisions to global explanations with high-level concepts has laid the groundwork for mechanistic interpretability, which aims to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yearim Kim , Sangyu Han , Sangbum Han , Nojun Kwak

Model explanations can be valuable for interpreting and debugging predictive models. We study a specific kind called Concept Explanations, where the goal is to interpret a model using human-understandable concepts. Although popular for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Vihari Piratla , Juyeon Heo , Katherine M. Collins , Sukriti Singh , Adrian Weller

Understanding how neural models represent human-interpretable concepts is challenging. Prior work has explored linear concept subspaces from diverse perspectives, such as probing and concept erasure. We introduce a unified framework to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Burin Naowarat , Hao Tang , Sharon Goldwater

We propose a method to facilitate exploration and analysis of new large data sets. In particular, we give an unsupervised deep learning approach to learning a latent representation that captures semantic similarity in the data set. The core…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Gary B Huang , Huei-Fang Yang , Shin-ya Takemura , Pat Rivlin , Stephen M Plaza

We explore the interpretability of 3D geometric deep learning models in the context of Computer-Aided Design (CAD). The field of parametric CAD can be limited by the difficulty of expressing high-level design concepts in terms of a few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Stefan Druc , Aditya Balu , Peter Wooldridge , Adarsh Krishnamurthy , Soumik Sarkar

Enabling generative models to decompose visual concepts from a single image is a complex and challenging problem. In this paper, we study a new and challenging task, customized concept decomposition, wherein the objective is to leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Zhi Xu , Shaozhe Hao , Kai Han

One of the current key challenges in Explainable AI is in correctly interpreting activations of hidden neurons. It seems evident that accurate interpretations thereof would provide insights into the question what a deep learning system has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Abhilekha Dalal , Md Kamruzzaman Sarker , Adrita Barua , Pascal Hitzler

Deep learning models heavily rely on large scale annotated datasets for training. Unfortunately, datasets cannot capture the infinite variability of the real world, thus neural networks are inherently limited by the restricted visual and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Massimiliano Mancini

Understanding internal representations of neural models is a core interest of mechanistic interpretability. Due to its large dimensionality, the representation space can encode various aspects about inputs. To what extent are different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Xinting Huang , Michael Hahn