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Deep generative networks trained via maximum likelihood on a natural image dataset like CIFAR10 often assign high likelihoods to images from datasets with different objects (e.g., SVHN). We refine previous investigations of this failure at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Robin Tibor Schirrmeister , Yuxuan Zhou , Tonio Ball , Dan Zhang

Feature attribution analysis is critical for interpreting machine learning models and supporting reliable data-driven decisions. However, feature attribution measures often exhibit stochastic variation: different train--test splits, random…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-15 Lanxin Xiang , Liang Shi , Youhui Ye , Boyu Jiang , Dawei Zhou , Feng Guo

Continual Learning (CL) aims to enable Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to learn new data without forgetting previously learned knowledge. The key to achieving this goal is to avoid confusion at the feature level, i.e., avoiding confusion within…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Shaoxu Cheng , Kanglei Geng , Chiyuan He , Zihuan Qiu , Linfeng Xu , Heqian Qiu , Lanxiao Wang , Qingbo Wu , Fanman Meng , Hongliang Li

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between diversity metrics, accuracy, and resiliency to natural image corruptions of Deep Learning (DL) image classifier ensembles. We investigate the potential of an attribution-based diversity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Rafael Rosales , Pablo Munoz , Michael Paulitsch

To explain predictions made by complex machine learning models, many feature attribution methods have been developed that assign importance scores to input features. Some recent work challenges the robustness of these methods by showing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Chris Lin , Ian Covert , Su-In Lee

Multi-modal image fusion synthesizes information from multiple sources into a single image, facilitating downstream tasks such as semantic segmentation. Current approaches primarily focus on acquiring informative fusion images at the visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Haowen Bai , Zixiang Zhao , Jiangshe Zhang , Baisong Jiang , Lilun Deng , Yukun Cui , Shuang Xu , Chunxia Zhang

Dimensionality Reduction (DR) methods are widely used to visualize high-dimensional data. One key task in DR-based analysis is discovering neighborhoods, which relies on analyzing the fine-grained local structure of a projection. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Diede P. M. van der Hoorn , Alessio Arleo , Fernando V. Paulovich

Attribution methods reveal which input features a neural network uses for a prediction, adding transparency to their decisions. A common problem is that these attributions seem unspecific, highlighting both important and irrelevant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Nils Philipp Walter , Jilles Vreeken , Jonas Fischer

With the development of deep learning, Deep Metric Learning (DML) has achieved great improvements in face recognition. Specifically, the widely used softmax loss in the training process often bring large intra-class variations, and feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Bowen Wu , Huaming Wu , Monica M. Y. Zhang

Long-tailed imbalance distribution is a common issue in practical computer vision applications. Previous works proposed methods to address this problem, which can be categorized into several classes: re-sampling, re-weighting, transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Pengxiao Han , Changkun Ye , Jieming Zhou , Jing Zhang , Jie Hong , Xuesong Li

Model-based offline reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising approach for recommender systems, enabling effective policy learning by interacting with frozen world models. However, the reward functions in these world models,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Yi Zhang , Ruihong Qiu , Xuwei Xu , Jiajun Liu , Sen Wang

Redundancy in deep neural network (DNN) models has always been one of their most intriguing and important properties. DNNs have been shown to overparameterize, or extract a lot of redundant features. In this work, we explore the impact of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Babajide O. Ayinde , Tamer Inanc , Jacek M. Zurada

The purported "black box" nature of neural networks is a barrier to adoption in applications where interpretability is essential. Here we present DeepLIFT (Deep Learning Important FeaTures), a method for decomposing the output prediction of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Avanti Shrikumar , Peyton Greenside , Anshul Kundaje

This paper studies the robustness of feature attribution methods for deep neural networks. It challenges the current notion of attributional robustness that largely ignores the difference in the model's outputs and introduces a new way of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Panagiota Kiourti , Anu Singh , Preeti Duraipandian , Weichao Zhou , Wenchao Li

Many Deep Learning approaches solve complicated classification and regression problems by hierarchically constructing complex features from the raw input data. Although a few works have investigated the application of deep neural networks…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Arash Khoeini , Saman Haratizadeh , Ehsan Hoseinzade

Data attribution seeks to trace model outputs back to training data. With the recent development of diffusion models, data attribution has become a desired module to properly assign valuations for high-quality or copyrighted training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Xiaosen Zheng , Tianyu Pang , Chao Du , Jing Jiang , Min Lin

Deep learning classifiers achieve state-of-the-art performance in various risk detection applications. They explore rich semantic representations and are supposed to automatically discover risk behaviors. However, due to the lack of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Yiling He , Jian Lou , Zhan Qin , Kui Ren

Generating multiple new concepts remains a challenging problem in the text-to-image task. Current methods often overfit when trained on a small number of samples and struggle with attribute leakage, particularly for class-similar subjects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Gia-Nghia Tran , Quang-Huy Che , Trong-Tai Dam Vu , Bich-Nga Pham , Vinh-Tiep Nguyen , Trung-Nghia Le , Minh-Triet Tran

With the increased deployment of machine learning models in various real-world applications, researchers and practitioners alike have emphasized the need for explanations of model behaviour. To this end, two broad strategies have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Usha Bhalla , Suraj Srinivas , Himabindu Lakkaraju

Addressing uncertainty in Deep Learning (DL) is essential, as it enables the development of models that can make reliable predictions and informed decisions in complex, real-world environments where data may be incomplete or ambiguous. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Ayyub Alzahem , Wadii Boulila , Maha Driss , Anis Koubaa