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This paper aims to quantitatively explain rationales of each prediction that is made by a pre-trained convolutional neural network (CNN). We propose to learn a decision tree, which clarifies the specific reason for each prediction made by…

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We propose a novel interpretable deep neural network for text classification, called ProtoryNet, based on a new concept of prototype trajectories. Motivated by the prototype theory in modern linguistics, ProtoryNet makes a prediction by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Dat Hong , Tong Wang , Stephen S. Baek

Decision trees are ubiquitous in machine learning for their ease of use and interpretability. Yet, these models are not typically employed in reinforcement learning as they cannot be updated online via stochastic gradient descent. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Andrew Silva , Taylor Killian , Ivan Dario Jimenez Rodriguez , Sung-Hyun Son , Matthew Gombolay

Decision trees and their ensembles are popular in machine learning as easy-to-understand models. Several techniques have been proposed in the literature for learning tree-based classifiers, with different techniques working well for data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Maria-Florina Balcan , Dravyansh Sharma

The visual pathway involves complex networks of cells and regions which contribute to the encoding and processing of visual information. While some aspects of visual perception are understood, there are still many unanswered questions…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-09 Peter Beech , Shanshan Jia , Zhaofei Yu , Jian K. Liu

Fine-tuning is a popular way of exploiting knowledge contained in a pre-trained convolutional network for a new visual recognition task. However, the orthogonal setting of transferring knowledge from a pretrained network to a visually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Amelie Royer , Christoph H. Lampert

Machine learning applications such as finance and medicine demand accurate and justifiable predictions, barring most deep learning methods from use. In response, previous work combines decision trees with deep learning, yielding models that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Alvin Wan , Lisa Dunlap , Daniel Ho , Jihan Yin , Scott Lee , Henry Jin , Suzanne Petryk , Sarah Adel Bargal , Joseph E. Gonzalez

Self-supervised pretrain techniques have been widely used to improve the downstream tasks' performance. However, real-world magnetic resonance (MR) studies usually consist of different sets of contrasts due to different acquisition…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Badhan Kumar Das , Ajay Singh , Gengyan Zhao , Han Liu , Thomas J. Re , Dorin Comaniciu , Eli Gibson , Andreas Maier

Fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) which aims at recognizing objects from subcategories is a very challenging task due to the inherently subtle inter-class differences. Most existing works mainly tackle this problem by reusing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Ju He , Jie-Neng Chen , Shuai Liu , Adam Kortylewski , Cheng Yang , Yutong Bai , Changhu Wang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as the backbone of many segmentation models, consistently achieving state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance. However, their success comes at a significant computational cost. Image token pruning is one of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Hanning Chen , Yang Ni , Wenjun Huang , Yezi Liu , SungHeon Jeong , Fei Wen , Nathaniel Bastian , Hugo Latapie , Mohsen Imani

Pedestrian trajectory prediction is critical for ensuring safety in autonomous driving, surveillance systems, and urban planning applications. While early approaches primarily focus on one-hop pairwise relationships, recent studies attempt…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ruochen Li , Zhanxing Zhu , Tanqiu Qiao , Hubert P. H. Shum

Though vision transformers (ViTs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in a variety of settings, they exhibit surprising failures when performing tasks involving visual relations. This begs the question: how do ViTs attempt to perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Michael A. Lepori , Alexa R. Tartaglini , Wai Keen Vong , Thomas Serre , Brenden M. Lake , Ellie Pavlick

Self-supervised visual representation learning traditionally focuses on image-level instance discrimination. Our study introduces an innovative, fine-grained dimension by integrating patch-level discrimination into these methodologies. This…

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Vision-based segmentation in forested environments is a key functionality for autonomous forestry operations such as tree felling and forwarding. Deep learning algorithms demonstrate promising results to perform visual tasks such as object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Vincent Grondin , François Pomerleau , Philippe Giguère

Deep learning models have become popular in the analysis of tabular data, as they address the limitations of decision trees and enable valuable applications like semi-supervised learning, online learning, and transfer learning. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Jiaqi Luo , Shixin Xu

Recent self-supervised learning (SSL) methods have shown impressive results in learning visual representations from unlabeled images. This paper aims to improve their performance further by utilizing the architectural advantages of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Sukmin Yun , Hankook Lee , Jaehyung Kim , Jinwoo Shin

Visual segmentation seeks to partition images, video frames, or point clouds into multiple segments or groups. This technique has numerous real-world applications, such as autonomous driving, image editing, robot sensing, and medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Xiangtai Li , Henghui Ding , Haobo Yuan , Wenwei Zhang , Jiangmiao Pang , Guangliang Cheng , Kai Chen , Ziwei Liu , Chen Change Loy

Deep learning has driven significant advances in medical image analysis, yet its adoption in clinical practice remains constrained by the large size and lack of transparency in modern models. Advances in interpretability techniques such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Nikita Malik , Pratinav Seth , Neeraj Kumar Singh , Chintan Chitroda , Vinay Kumar Sankarapu

Visual Prompt Tuning (VPT) has emerged as a parameter-efficient fine-tuning paradigm for vision transformers, with conventional approaches utilizing dataset-level prompts that remain the same across all input instances. We observe that this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Xi Xiao , Yunbei Zhang , Xingjian Li , Tianyang Wang , Xiao Wang , Yuxiang Wei , Jihun Hamm , Min Xu

This paper evaluates whether training a decision tree based on concepts extracted from a concept-based explainer can increase interpretability for Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) models and boost the fidelity and performance of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Gayda Mutahar , Tim Miller