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The widespread use of deep neural networks has achieved substantial success in many tasks. However, there still exists a huge gap between the operating mechanism of deep learning models and human-understandable decision making, so that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Xiaowei Zhou , Jie Yin , Ivor Tsang , Chen Wang

In this paper, we consider the problem of descriptors construction for the task of content-based image retrieval using deep neural networks. The idea of neural codes, based on fully connected layers activations, is extended by incorporating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Paweł Staszewski , Maciej Jaworski , Jinde Cao , Leszek Rutkowski

We introduce a novel approach to feed-forward neural network interpretation based on partitioning the space of sequences of neuron activations. In line with this approach, we propose a model-specific interpretation method, called YASENN.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Yaroslav Zharov , Denis Korzhenkov , Pavel Shvechikov , Alexander Tuzhilin

Layered neural networks have greatly improved the performance of various applications including image processing, speech recognition, natural language processing, and bioinformatics. However, it is still difficult to discover or interpret…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-05 Chihiro Watanabe , Kaoru Hiramatsu , Kunio Kashino

Visual concept discovery has long been deemed important to improve interpretability of neural networks, because a bank of semantically meaningful concepts would provide us with a starting point for building machine learning models that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Haiyang Huang , Zhi Chen , Cynthia Rudin

Understanding how neural networks transform inputs into outputs is crucial for interpreting and manipulating their behavior. Most existing approaches analyze internal representations by identifying hidden-layer activation patterns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Joshua Brendan Melander , Zaki Alaoui , Shenghua Liu , Surya Ganguli , Stephen A. Baccus

Recently deep neural networks demonstrate competitive performances in classification and regression tasks for many temporal or sequential data. However, it is still hard to understand the classification mechanisms of temporal deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Sohee Cho , Ginkyeng Lee , Wonjoon Chang , Jaesik Choi

Without any means of interpretation, neural networks that predict molecular properties and bioactivities are merely black boxes. We will unravel these black boxes and will demonstrate approaches to understand the learned representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Kristina Preuer , Günter Klambauer , Friedrich Rippmann , Sepp Hochreiter , Thomas Unterthiner

We propose a new interpretability method for neural networks, which is based on a novel mathematico-philosophical theory of reasons. Our method computes a vector for each neuron, called its reasons vector. We then can compute how strongly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Levin Hornischer , Hannes Leitgeb

Despite substantial progress in applying neural networks (NN) to a wide variety of areas, they still largely suffer from a lack of transparency and interpretability. While recent developments in explainable artificial intelligence attempt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Yunhao Ge , Yao Xiao , Zhi Xu , Meng Zheng , Srikrishna Karanam , Terrence Chen , Laurent Itti , Ziyan Wu

It is essential for understanding neural network decisions to interpret the functionality (also known as concepts) of neurons. Existing approaches describe neuron concepts by generating natural language descriptions, thereby advancing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 ZeBin Ji , Yang Hu , Xiuli Bi , Bo Liu , Bin Xiao

The remarkable performance of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is entangled with their huge number of uninterpretable parameters, which has become the bottleneck limiting the exploitation of their full potential. Towards network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Yuchao Li , Rongrong Ji , Shaohui Lin , Baochang Zhang , Chenqian Yan , Yongjian Wu , Feiyue Huang , Ling Shao

Sometimes it is not enough for a DNN to produce an outcome. For example, in applications such as healthcare, users need to understand the rationale of the decisions. Therefore, it is imperative to develop algorithms to learn models with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Yinpeng Dong , Fan Bao , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

The layered structure of deep neural networks hinders the use of numerous analysis tools and thus the development of its interpretability. Inspired by the success of functional brain networks, we propose a novel framework for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Ben Zhang , Zhetong Dong , Junsong Zhang , Hongwei Lin

The burgeoning growth of open-sourced vision-language models (VLMs) has catalyzed a plethora of applications across diverse domains. Ensuring the transparency and interpretability of these models is critical for fostering trustworthy and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-25 Jiaqi Xu , Cuiling Lan , Yan Lu

The predictive power of neural networks often costs model interpretability. Several techniques have been developed for explaining model outputs in terms of input features; however, it is difficult to translate such interpretations into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Benjamin J. Lengerich , Sandeep Konam , Eric P. Xing , Stephanie Rosenthal , Manuela Veloso

Revealing the transparency of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has been widely studied to describe the decision mechanisms of network inner structures. In this paper, we propose a novel post-hoc framework, Unfold and Conquer Attribution Guidance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jung-Ho Hong , Woo-Jeoung Nam , Kyu-Sung Jeon , Seong-Whan Lee

A crucial aspect of understanding the complex nature of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is the ability to explain learned concepts within their latent representations. While methods exist to connect neurons to human-understandable textual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Laura Kopf , Philine Lou Bommer , Anna Hedström , Sebastian Lapuschkin , Marina M. -C. Höhne , Kirill Bykov

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have recently shown state of the art performance on semantic segmentation tasks, however, they still suffer from problems of poor boundary localization and spatial fragmented predictions. The difficulties lie in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Peng Jiang , Fanglin Gu , Yunhai Wang , Changhe Tu , Baoquan Chen

Recently, deep feedforward neural networks have achieved considerable success in modeling biological sensory processing, in terms of reproducing the input-output map of sensory neurons. However, such models raise profound questions about…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-12-16 Hidenori Tanaka , Aran Nayebi , Niru Maheswaranathan , Lane McIntosh , Stephen A. Baccus , Surya Ganguli