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While deeper and wider neural networks are actively pushing the performance limits of various computer vision and machine learning tasks, they often require large sets of labeled data for effective training and suffer from extremely high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-27 Zhi Zhang , Guanghan Ning , Zhihai He

A major challenge in Explainable AI is in correctly interpreting activations of hidden neurons: accurate interpretations would provide insights into the question of what a deep learning system has internally detected as relevant on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Abhilekha Dalal , Md Kamruzzaman Sarker , Adrita Barua , Eugene Vasserman , Pascal Hitzler

The interest in complex deep neural networks for computer vision applications is increasing. This leads to the need for improving the interpretable capabilities of these models. Recent explanation methods present visualizations of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Dan Valle , Tiago Pimentel , Adriano Veloso

This paper addresses a fundamental problem of scene understanding: How to parse the scene image into a structured configuration (i.e., a semantic object hierarchy with object interaction relations) that finely accords with human perception.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Liang Lin , Guangrun Wang , Rui Zhang , Ruimao Zhang , Xiaodan Liang , Wangmeng Zuo

Visual reconstruction algorithms are an interpretive tool that map brain activity to pixels. Past reconstruction algorithms employed brute-force search through a massive library to select candidate images that, when passed through an…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-05-03 Reese Kneeland , Jordyn Ojeda , Ghislain St-Yves , Thomas Naselaris

Modern deep learning algorithms tend to optimize an objective metric, such as minimize a cross entropy loss on a training dataset, to be able to learn. The problem is that the single metric is an incomplete description of the real world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Giang Dao , Minwoo Lee

Network interpretation as an effort to reveal the features learned by a network remains largely visualization-based. In this paper, our goal is to tackle semantic network interpretation at both filter and decision level. For filter-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Pei Guo , Ryan Farrell

Vision Transformer models exhibit immense power yet remain opaque to human understanding, posing challenges and risks for practical applications. While prior research has attempted to demystify these models through input attribution and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Yifan Wang , Yifei Liu , Yingdong Shi , Changming Li , Anqi Pang , Sibei Yang , Jingyi Yu , Kan Ren

We introduce switched linear projections for expressing the activity of a neuron in a deep neural network in terms of a single linear projection in the input space. The method works by isolating the active subnetwork, a series of linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Lech Szymanski , Brendan McCane , Craig Atkinson

Visual segmentation is a key perceptual function that partitions visual space and allows for detection, recognition and discrimination of objects in complex environments. The processes underlying human segmentation of natural images are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Jonathan Vacher , Pascal Mamassian , Ruben Coen-Cagli

The last decade of machine learning has seen drastic increases in scale and capabilities. Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly being deployed in the real world. However, they are difficult to analyze, raising concerns about using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Tilman Räuker , Anson Ho , Stephen Casper , Dylan Hadfield-Menell

We present a method for adversarial attack detection based on the inspection of a sparse set of neurons. We follow the hypothesis that adversarial attacks introduce imperceptible perturbations in the input and that these perturbations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Roger Granda , Tinne Tuytelaars , Jose Oramas

Neuron Interpretation has gained traction in the field of interpretability, and have provided fine-grained insights into what a model learns and how language knowledge is distributed amongst its different components. However, the lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Yimin Fan , Fahim Dalvi , Nadir Durrani , Hassan Sajjad

High quality explanations of neural networks (NNs) should exhibit two key properties. Completeness ensures that they accurately reflect a network's function and interpretability makes them understandable to humans. Many existing methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Nolan Dey , Eric Taylor , Alexander Wong , Bryan Tripp , Graham W. Taylor

Modeling the behavior of coupled networks is challenging due to their intricate dynamics. For example in neuroscience, it is of critical importance to understand the relationship between the functional neural processes and anatomical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Hongyuan You , Sikun Lin , Ambuj K. Singh

Despite strong empirical performance for image classification, deep neural networks are often regarded as ``black boxes'' and they are difficult to interpret. On the other hand, sparse convolutional models, which assume that a signal can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Xili Dai , Mingyang Li , Pengyuan Zhai , Shengbang Tong , Xingjian Gao , Shao-Lun Huang , Zhihui Zhu , Chong You , Yi Ma

Interpreting individual neurons in deep neural networks is a crucial step towards understanding their complex decision-making processes and ensuring AI safety. Despite recent progress in neuron labeling, existing methods often limit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Vladimir Zaigrajew , Michał Piechota , Gaspar Sekula , Paweł Gelar , Przemysław Biecek

In neural networks, task-relevant information is represented jointly by groups of neurons. However, the specific way in which this mutual information about the classification label is distributed among the individual neurons is not well…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-08 David A. Ehrlich , Andreas C. Schneider , Viola Priesemann , Michael Wibral , Abdullah Makkeh

While deep neural networks (DNNs) have become a standard architecture for many machine learning tasks, their internal decision-making process and general interpretability is still poorly understood. Conversely, common decision trees are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Coenraad Mouton , Marelie H. Davel

Deep learning has excelled in medical image classification, but its clinical application is limited by poor interpretability. Capsule networks, known for encoding hierarchical relationships and spatial features, show potential in addressing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Xinyu Geng , Jiaming Wang , Jun Xu