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Learning an explainable classifier often results in low accuracy model or ends up with a huge rule set, while learning a deep model is usually more capable of handling noisy data at scale, but with the cost of hard to explain the result and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Yuanlong Li , Gaopan Huang , Min Zhou , Chuan Fu , Honglin Qiao , Yan He

Understanding the behavior of a trained network and finding explanations for its outputs is important for improving the network's performance and generalization ability, and for ensuring trust in automated systems. Several approaches have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Madhumita Sushil , Simon Šuster , Walter Daelemans

The ability to interpret machine learning model decisions is critical in such domains as healthcare, where trust in model predictions is as important as their accuracy. Inspired by the development of prototype parts-based deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Jacek Karolczak , Jerzy Stefanowski

Deep neural networks (DNNs) and decision trees (DTs) are both state-of-the-art classifiers. DNNs perform well due to their representational learning capabilities, while DTs are computationally efficient as they perform inference along one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Noam Gottlieb , Michael Werman

Neural networks (NNs) and decision trees (DTs) are both popular models of machine learning, yet coming with mutually exclusive advantages and limitations. To bring the best of the two worlds, a variety of approaches are proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Haoling Li , Jie Song , Mengqi Xue , Haofei Zhang , Jingwen Ye , Lechao Cheng , Mingli Song

Arguably the key reason for the success of deep neural networks is their ability to autonomously form non-linear combinations of the input features, which can be used in subsequent layers of the network. The analogon to this capability in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Johannes Fürnkranz , Eyke Hüllermeier , Eneldo Loza Mencía , Michael Rapp

Rule-based decision models are attractive due to their interpretability. However, existing rule induction methods often result in long and consequently less interpretable rule models. This problem can often be attributed to the lack of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-29 Remy Kusters , Yusik Kim , Marine Collery , Christian de Sainte Marie , Shubham Gupta

Rule-based models offer interpretability but struggle with complex data, while deep neural networks excel in performance yet lack transparency. This work investigates a neuro-symbolic rule learning neural network named RL-Net that learns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Sarah Seifi , Tobias Sukianto , Cecilia Carbonelli , Lorenzo Servadei , Robert Wille

Discovering precise and interpretable rules from knowledge graphs is regarded as an essential challenge, which can improve the performances of many downstream tasks and even provide new ways to approach some Natural Language Processing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Canlin Zhang , Chun-Nan Hsu , Yannis Katsis , Ho-Cheol Kim , Yoshiki Vazquez-Baeza

Understanding how animals learn is a central challenge in neuroscience, with growing relevance to the development of animal- or human-aligned artificial intelligence. However, existing approaches tend to assume fixed parametric forms for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Yuhan Helena Liu , Victor Geadah , Jonathan Pillow

The artificial neural network shows powerful ability of inference, but it is still criticized for lack of interpretability and prerequisite needs of big dataset. This paper proposes the Rule-embedded Neural Network (ReNN) to overcome the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Hu Wang

Deep neural networks have been well-known for their superb handling of various machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks. However, due to their over-parameterized black-box nature, it is often difficult to understand the prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Xuhong Li , Haoyi Xiong , Xingjian Li , Xuanyu Wu , Xiao Zhang , Ji Liu , Jiang Bian , Dejing Dou

Object-oriented database systems proved very valuable at handling and administrating complex objects. In the following guidelines for embedding neural networks into such systems are presented. It is our goal to treat networks as normal data…

Databases · Computer Science 2008-02-26 Erich Schikuta

Recent work on deep learning for tabular data demonstrates the strong performance of deep tabular models, often bridging the gap between gradient boosted decision trees and neural networks. Accuracy aside, a major advantage of neural models…

We propose a tensor neural network ($t$-NN) framework that offers an exciting new paradigm for designing neural networks with multidimensional (tensor) data. Our network architecture is based on the $t$-product (Kilmer and Martin, 2011), an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Elizabeth Newman , Lior Horesh , Haim Avron , Misha Kilmer

Table Structure Recognition (TSR) requires the logical reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs) to handle complex table layouts, but current datasets are limited in scale and quality, hindering effective use of this reasoning…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Ruilin Zhang , Kai Yang

Many organizations rely on data from government and third-party sources, and those sources rarely follow the same data formatting. This introduces challenges in integrating data from multiple sources or aligning external sources with…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Arash Dargahi Nobari , Davood Rafiei

Despite the highest classification accuracy in wide varieties of application areas, artificial neural network has one disadvantage. The way this Network comes to a decision is not easily comprehensible. The lack of explanation ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Tameru Hailesilassie

Recent studies have highlighted the limitations of large language models in mathematical reasoning, particularly their inability to capture the underlying logic. Inspired by meta-learning, we propose that models should acquire not only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Kejie Chen , Lin Wang , Qinghai Zhang , Renjun Xu

Data in tabular format is frequently occurring in real-world applications. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have recently been extended to effectively handle such data, allowing feature interactions to be captured through representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Amr Alkhatib , Sofiane Ennadir , Henrik Boström , Michalis Vazirgiannis