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We study the evolution of latent space in fine-tuned NLP models. Different from the commonly used probing-framework, we opt for an unsupervised method to analyze representations. More specifically, we discover latent concepts in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Nadir Durrani , Hassan Sajjad , Fahim Dalvi , Firoj Alam

Recent empirical evidence shows that LLM representations encode human-interpretable concepts. Nevertheless, the mechanisms by which these representations emerge remain largely unexplored. To shed further light on this, we introduce a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yuhang Liu , Dong Gong , Yichao Cai , Erdun Gao , Zhen Zhang , Biwei Huang , Mingming Gong , Anton van den Hengel , Javen Qinfeng Shi

Despite the success of deep learning in dermoscopy image analysis, its inherent black-box nature hinders clinical trust, motivating the use of prototypical networks for case-based visual transparency. However, inevitable selection bias in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-02 Junhao Jia , Yueyi Wu , Huangwei Chen , Haodong Jing , Haishuai Wang , Jiajun Bu , Lei Wu

Interpretable models can have advantages over black-box models, and interpretability is essential for the application of machine learning in critical settings, such as aviation or medicine. This article introduces the LASSO-Clip-EN (LCEN)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Pedro Seber , Richard D. Braatz

Large language models (LLMs) excel at natural language understanding and generation but remain vulnerable to factual errors, limiting their reliability in knowledge-intensive tasks. While decoding-time strategies provide a promising…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Jingze Zhu , Yongliang Wu , Wenbo Zhu , Jiawang Cao , Yanqiang Zheng , Jiawei Chen , Xu Yang , Bernt Schiele , Jonas Fischer , Xinting Hu

Autoregressive (AR) models have achieved unified and strong performance across both visual understanding and image generation tasks. However, removing undesired concepts from AR models while maintaining overall generation quality remains an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Haipeng Fan , Shiyuan Zhang , Baohunesitu , Zihang Guo , Huaiwen Zhang

With the popularity of deep neural networks (DNNs), model interpretability is becoming a critical concern. Many approaches have been developed to tackle the problem through post-hoc analysis, such as explaining how predictions are made or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Haixing Dai , Lu Zhang , Lin Zhao , Zihao Wu , Zhengliang Liu , David Liu , Xiaowei Yu , Yanjun Lyu , Changying Li , Ninghao Liu , Tianming Liu , Dajiang Zhu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated exceptional efficacy in relational learning tasks, including node classification and link prediction. However, their application raises significant fairness concerns, as GNNs can perpetuate and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Mahdi Tavassoli Kejani , Fadi Dornaika , Jean-Michel Loubes

Semantic segmentation is a task that traditionally requires a large dataset of pixel-level ground truth labels, which is time-consuming and expensive to obtain. Recent advancements in the weakly-supervised setting show that reasonable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Erik Stammes , Tom F. H. Runia , Michael Hofmann , Mohsen Ghafoorian

Text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in rapid and high-fidelity personalization, even when provided with only a few user images. However, the effectiveness of personalization techniques has lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Naresh Kumar Devulapally , Shruti Agarwal , Tejas Gokhale , Vishnu Suresh Lokhande

Deep learning models, particularly Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), have demonstrated exceptional performance in diagnosing skin diseases, often outperforming dermatologists. However, they have also unveiled biases linked to specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Anshul Pundhir , Balasubramanian Raman , Pravendra Singh

In this paper, we address the limitations of existing text-to-image diffusion models in generating demographically fair results when given human-related descriptions. These models often struggle to disentangle the target language context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Jia Li , Lijie Hu , Jingfeng Zhang , Tianhang Zheng , Hua Zhang , Di Wang

To mitigate societal biases implicitly encoded in recent successful pretrained language models, a diverse array of approaches have been proposed to encourage model fairness, focusing on prompting, data augmentation, regularized fine-tuning,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Jingxuan Xu , Wuyang Chen , Linyi Li , Yao Zhao , Yunchao Wei

The development of fair and unbiased machine learning models remains an ongoing objective for researchers in the field of artificial intelligence. We introduce the Differential Adjusted Parity (DAP) loss to produce unbiased informative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Bucher Sahyouni , Matthew Vowels , Liqun Chen , Simon Hadfield

Unlearning specific concepts in text-to-image diffusion models has become increasingly important for preventing undesirable content generation. Among prior approaches, sparse autoencoder (SAE)-based methods have attracted attention due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Hyeonjin Kim , Hangyeol Jung , Heechan Yun , Sungjun Yun , Dong-Jun Han

Neural implicit mapping has emerged as a powerful paradigm for robotic navigation and scene understanding. However, real-world robotic deployment requires continual adaptation to changing environments under strict memory and computation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Xunlan Zhou , Hongrui Zhao , Negar Mehr

Concept erasure has emerged as a promising technique for mitigating the risk of harmful content generation in diffusion models by selectively unlearning undesirable concepts. The common principle of previous works to remove a specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Anh Bui , Trang Vu , Long Vuong , Trung Le , Paul Montague , Tamas Abraham , Junae Kim , Dinh Phung

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) often suffer from hallucinations, particularly errors in object existence, attributes, or relations, which undermine their reliability. We introduce TACO (Verified Atomic Confidence Estimation), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Jiarui Liu , Weihao Xuan , Zhijing Jin , Mona Diab

Machine unlearning aims to remove specific concepts from pretrained text-to-image diffusion models, yet several white- and black-box attacks have been introduced to make the model generate such unlearned concepts. These attacks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Arian Komaei Koma , Seyed Amir Kasaei , AmirMahdi Sadeghzadeh , Mohammad Hossein Rohban

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) enforces supervised information only at the output layer, and hidden layers are trained by back propagating the prediction error from the output layer without explicit supervision. We propose a…

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