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Recently, Human Attribute Recognition (HAR) has become a hot topic due to its scientific challenges and application potentials, where localizing attributes is a crucial stage but not well handled. In this paper, we propose a novel deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Mingda Wu , Di Huang , Yuanfang Guo , Yunhong Wang

Recent years have witnessed the widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and machine learning (ML) models. Despite their tremendous success, a number of vital problems like ML model brittleness, their fairness, and the lack…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Jinqiang Yu , Alexey Ignatiev , Peter J. Stuckey

Attribution methods assess the contribution of inputs to the model prediction. One way to do so is erasure: a subset of inputs is considered irrelevant if it can be removed without affecting the prediction. Though conceptually simple,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Nicola De Cao , Michael Schlichtkrull , Wilker Aziz , Ivan Titov

Feature attribution methods explain black-box machine learning (ML) models by assigning importance scores to input features. These methods can be computationally expensive for large ML models. To address this challenge, there has been…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Lucas Monteiro Paes , Dennis Wei , Flavio P. Calmon

Deep Recommender Systems (DRS) are increasingly dependent on a large number of feature fields for more precise recommendations. Effective feature selection methods are consequently becoming critical for further enhancing the accuracy and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Pengyue Jia , Yejing Wang , Zhaocheng Du , Xiangyu Zhao , Yichao Wang , Bo Chen , Wanyu Wang , Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang

As generative AI image technologies become more widespread and advanced, there is a growing need for strong attribution models. These models are crucial for verifying the authenticity of images and identifying the architecture of their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Danielle Sullivan-Pao , Nicole Tian , Pooya Khorrami

To better understand the output of deep neural networks (DNN), attribution based methods have been an important approach for model interpretability, which assign a score for each input dimension to indicate its importance towards the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Zhiyu Zhu , Huaming Chen , Jiayu Zhang , Xinyi Wang , Zhibo Jin , Minhui Xue , Dongxiao Zhu , Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo

Nonlinear methods such as Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are the gold standard for various challenging machine learning problems, e.g., image classification, natural language processing or human action recognition. Although these methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Grégoire Montavon , Sebastian Bach , Alexander Binder , Wojciech Samek , Klaus-Robert Müller

Most techniques for explainable machine learning focus on feature attribution, i.e., values are assigned to the features such that their sum equals the prediction. Example attribution is another form of explanation that assigns weights to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Genghua Dong , Henrik Boström , Michalis Vazirgiannis , Roman Bresson

Interpretable machine learning offers insights into what factors drive a certain prediction of a black-box system. A large number of interpreting methods focus on identifying explanatory input features, which generally fall into two main…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Vy Vo , Van Nguyen , Trung Le , Quan Hung Tran , Gholamreza Haffari , Seyit Camtepe , Dinh Phung

Feature attribution methods are popular in interpretable machine learning. These methods compute the attribution of each input feature to represent its importance, but there is no consensus on the definition of "attribution", leading to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Yilun Zhou , Serena Booth , Marco Tulio Ribeiro , Julie Shah

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) deliver state-of-the-art performance in many image recognition and understanding applications. However, despite their outstanding performance, these models are black-boxes and it is hard to understand how they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Moustafa Alzantot , Amy Widdicombe , Simon Julier , Mani Srivastava

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have become de fact state-of-the-art for the main computer vision tasks. However, due to the complex underlying structure their decisions are hard to understand which limits their use in some context of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Nina Schaaf , Omar de Mitri , Hang Beom Kim , Alexander Windberger , Marco F. Huber

The clear transparency of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is hampered by complex internal structures and nonlinear transformations along deep hierarchies. In this paper, we propose a new attribution method, Relative Sectional Propagation (RSP),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Woo-Jeoung Nam , Jaesik Choi , Seong-Whan Lee

In unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) research, while state-of-the-art models have reached a saturation point with extensive studies on public benchmark datasets, they adopt large-scale tailor-made neural networks (NN) for detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 YeongHyeon Park , Sungho Kang , Myung Jin Kim , Hyeong Seok Kim , Juneho Yi

Approaches for appraising feature importance approximations, alternatively referred to as attribution methods, have been established across an extensive array of contexts. The development of resilient techniques for performance benchmarking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Junhwa Song , Keumgang Cha , Junghoon Seo

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains, but their performance can be severely degraded by noisy or corrupted training data. Conventional noise mitigation methods often rely on explicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Deliang Jin , Gang Chen , Shuo Feng , Yufeng Ling , Haoran Zhu

Fully Connected Neural Networks (FCNNs) are often regarded as simple and intuitive architectures, yet they serve as the foundation for more complex models. Nonetheless, the lack of consensus on their interpretability continues to pose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Thodoris Lymperopoulos , Denia Kanellopoulou

Attributing the output of a neural network to the contribution of given input elements is a way of shedding light on the black-box nature of neural networks. Due to the complexity of current network architectures, current gradient-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Ashkan Khakzar , Soroosh Baselizadeh , Saurabh Khanduja , Christian Rupprecht , Seong Tae Kim , Nassir Navab

Feature attribution maps are a popular approach to highlight the most important pixels in an image for a given prediction of a model. Despite a recent growth in popularity and available methods, little attention is given to the objective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Arne Gevaert , Axel-Jan Rousseau , Thijs Becker , Dirk Valkenborg , Tijl De Bie , Yvan Saeys