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A common trait of many machine learning models is that it is often difficult to understand and explain what caused the model to produce the given output. While the explainability of neural networks has been an active field of research in…

The reasonable definition of semantic interpretability presents the core challenge in explainable AI. This paper proposes a method to modify a traditional convolutional neural network (CNN) into an interpretable compositional CNN, in order…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Wen Shen , Zhihua Wei , Shikun Huang , Binbin Zhang , Jiaqi Fan , Ping Zhao , Quanshi Zhang

Adoption of deep neural networks in fields such as economics or finance has been constrained by the lack of interpretability of model outcomes. This paper proposes a generative neural network architecture - the parameter encoder neural…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-11 Johann Pfitzinger

Model interpretability is a requirement in many applications in which crucial decisions are made by users relying on a model's outputs. The recent movement for "algorithmic fairness" also stipulates explainability, and therefore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Xuan Liu , Xiaoguang Wang , Stan Matwin

Despite the Graph Neural Networks' (GNNs) proficiency in analyzing graph data, achieving high-accuracy and interpretable predictions remains challenging. Existing GNN interpreters typically provide post-hoc explanations disjointed from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Zhenhua Huang , Kunhao Li , Shaojie Wang , Zhaohong Jia , Wentao Zhu , Sharad Mehrotra

Researchers have proposed various methods for visually interpreting the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) via saliency maps, which include Class-Activation-Map (CAM) based approaches as a leading family. However, in terms of the internal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Xiwei Xuan , Ziquan Deng , Hsuan-Tien Lin , Zhaodan Kong , Kwan-Liu Ma

The goal of sentence and document modeling is to accurately represent the meaning of sentences and documents for various Natural Language Processing tasks. In this work, we present Dependency Sensitive Convolutional Neural Networks (DSCNN)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-09 Rui Zhang , Honglak Lee , Dragomir Radev

As artificial intelligence increasingly drives critical decisions, the ability to genuinely explain how neural networks make predictions is essential for trust. Yet, most current explanation methods offer post-hoc rationalizations rather…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Corentin Lobet , Francesca Chiaromonte

In the recent past, there has been a growing interest in Neural-Symbolic Integration frameworks, i.e., hybrid systems that integrate connectionist and symbolic approaches to obtain the best of both worlds. In a previous work, we proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Alessandro Daniele , Luciano Serafini

Interpreting the learned features of vision models has posed a longstanding challenge in the field of machine learning. To address this issue, we propose a novel method that leverages the capabilities of language models to interpret the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Saeid Asgari Taghanaki , Aliasghar Khani , Ali Saheb Pasand , Amir Khasahmadi , Aditya Sanghi , Karl D. D. Willis , Ali Mahdavi-Amiri

A semi-supervised learning framework using the feedforward-designed convolutional neural networks (FF-CNNs) is proposed for image classification in this work. One unique property of FF-CNNs is that no backpropagation is used in model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Yueru Chen , Yijing Yang , Min Zhang , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become the state of the art method for image classification in the last ten years. Despite the fact that they achieve superhuman classification accuracy on many popular datasets, they often perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Sebastian Stabinger , Peer David , Justus Piater , Antonio Rodríguez-Sánchez

Sets represent a fundamental abstraction across many types of data. To handle the unordered nature of set-structured data, models such as DeepSets and PointNet rely on fixed, non-learnable pooling operations (e.g., sum or max) -- a design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Tomas Tokar , Scott Sanner

A Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is sometimes confronted with objects of changing appearance ( new instances) that exceed its generalization capability. This requires the CNN to incorporate new knowledge, i.e., to learn incrementally.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Tobias Scheck , Ana Perez Grassi , Gangolf Hirtz

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) demonstrate remarkable capabilities in learning complex hierarchical data representations, but the nature of these representations remains largely unknown. Existing global explainability methods, such as Network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Kirill Bykov , Laura Kopf , Shinichi Nakajima , Marius Kloft , Marina M. -C. Höhne

We introduce and analyze a novel quantum machine learning model motivated by convolutional neural networks. Our quantum convolutional neural network (QCNN) makes use of only $O(\log(N))$ variational parameters for input sizes of $N$ qubits,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Iris Cong , Soonwon Choi , Mikhail D. Lukin

In recent years, with the development of quantum machine learning, quantum neural networks (QNNs) have gained increasing attention in the field of natural language processing (NLP) and have achieved a series of promising results. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Yixiong Chen , Weichuan Fang

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown exceptional performance for a range of medical imaging tasks. However, conventional CNNs are not able to explain their reasoning process, therefore limiting their adoption in clinical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Linde S. Hesse , Ana I. L. Namburete

Self-explainable deep neural networks are a recent class of models that can output ante-hoc local explanations that are faithful to the model's reasoning, and as such represent a step forward toward filling the gap between expressiveness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Marc Christiansen , Lea Villadsen , Zhiqiang Zhong , Stefano Teso , Davide Mottin

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are known to learn an image representation that captures concepts relevant to the task, but do so in an implicit way that hampers model interpretability. However, one could argue that such a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Diego Marcos , Ruth Fong , Sylvain Lobry , Remi Flamary , Nicolas Courty , Devis Tuia