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Multimodal pre-trained models, such as CLIP, are popular for zero-shot classification due to their open-vocabulary flexibility and high performance. However, vision-language models, which compute similarity scores between images and class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Mia Chiquier , Utkarsh Mall , Carl Vondrick

Boolean tensor decomposition approximates data of multi-way binary relationships as product of interpretable low-rank binary factors, following the rules of Boolean algebra. Here, we present its first probabilistic treatment. We facilitate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-15 Tammo Rukat , Chris C. Holmes , Christopher Yau

Discovering interpretable patterns for classification of sequential data is of key importance for a variety of fields, ranging from genomics to fraud detection or more generally interpretable decision-making. In this paper, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Marine Collery , Philippe Bonnard , François Fages , Remy Kusters

Traditional neural networks have an impressive classification performance, but what they learn cannot be inspected, verified or extracted. Neural Logic Networks on the other hand have an interpretable structure that enables them to learn a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Vincent Perreault , Katsumi Inoue , Richard Labib , Alain Hertz

Deep models have advanced prediction in many domains, but their lack of interpretability remains a key barrier to the adoption in many real world applications. There exists a large body of work aiming to help humans understand these black…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Mike Wu , Sonali Parbhoo , Michael C. Hughes , Volker Roth , Finale Doshi-Velez

Complex classifiers may exhibit "embarassing" failures in cases where humans can easily provide a justified classification. Avoiding such failures is obviously of key importance. In this work, we focus on one such setting, where a label is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Deborah Cohen , Amit Daniely , Amir Globerson , Gal Elidan

Multi-label classification is becoming increasingly ubiquitous, but not much attention has been paid to interpretability. In this paper, we develop a multi-label classifier that can be represented as a concise set of simple "if-then" rules,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Martino Ciaperoni , Han Xiao , Aristides Gionis

A growing number of approaches exist to generate explanations for image classification. However, few of these approaches are subjected to human-subject evaluations, partly because it is challenging to design controlled experiments with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Martin Schuessler , Philipp Weiß , Leon Sixt

We aim to produce predictive models that are not only accurate, but are also interpretable to human experts. Our models are decision lists, which consist of a series of if...then... statements (e.g., if high blood pressure, then stroke)…

Applications · Statistics 2015-11-06 Benjamin Letham , Cynthia Rudin , Tyler H. McCormick , David Madigan

Evaluating explainable AI (XAI) approaches is a challenging task in general, due to the subjectivity of explanations. In this paper, we focus on tabular data and the specific use case of AI models predicting the values of Boolean functions.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Stav Armoni-Friedmann , Hana Chockler , David A. Kelly

Predictive modeling on tabular data is the cornerstone of many real-world applications. Although gradient boosting machines and some recent deep models achieve strong performance on tabular data, they often lack interpretability. On the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Tommy Xu , Zhitian Zhang , Xiangyu Sun , Lauren Kelly Zung , Hossein Hajimirsadeghi , Greg Mori

Table extraction from PDF and image documents is a ubiquitous task in the real-world. Perfect extraction quality is difficult to achieve with one single out-of-box model due to (1) the wide variety of table styles, (2) the lack of training…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Nancy Xin Ru Wang , Douglas Burdick , Yunyao Li

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly pervasive and powerful, the ability to audit AI-based systems is growing in importance. However, explainability for artificial intelligence systems is not a one-size-fits-all solution;…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Nicola Rossberg , Bennett Kleinberg , Barry O'Sullivan , Luca Longo , Andrea Visentin

This study proposed an exhaustive stable/reproducible rule-mining algorithm combined to a classifier to generate both accurate and interpretable models. Our method first extracts rules (i.e., a conjunction of conditions about the values of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Margaux Luck , Nicolas Pallet , Cecilia Damon

Many autonomous systems, such as robots and self-driving cars, involve real-time decision making in complex environments, and require prediction of future outcomes from limited data. Moreover, their decisions are increasingly required to be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Erfan Aasi , Cristian Ioan Vasile , Mahroo Bahreinian , Calin Belta

Recent studies show the promise of large language models (LLMs) for few-shot tabular classification but highlight challenges due to the variability in structured data. To address this, we propose distilling data into actionable insights to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Yifei Yuan , Jiatong Li , Weijia Zhang , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Evangelos Kanoulas , Renjun Hu

Cyber-physical system applications such as autonomous vehicles, wearable devices, and avionic systems generate a large volume of time-series data. Designers often look for tools to help classify and categorize the data. Traditional machine…

Learning interpretable models has become a major focus of machine learning research, given the increasing prominence of machine learning in socially important decision-making. Among interpretable models, rule lists are among the best-known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Leonardo Pellegrina , Fabio Vandin

Interpretability is a pressing issue for machine learning. Common approaches to interpretable machine learning constrain interactions between features of the input, rendering the effects of those features on a model's output comprehensible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Kieran A. Murphy , Dani S. Bassett

Table extraction is an important but still unsolved problem. In this paper, we introduce a flexible and modular table extraction system. We develop two rule-based algorithms that perform the complete table recognition process, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Marcin Namysl , Alexander M. Esser , Sven Behnke , Joachim Köhler