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Traditional deep learning interpretability methods which are suitable for model users cannot explain network behaviors at the global level and are inflexible at providing fine-grained explanations. As a solution, concept-based explanations…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Jinbin Huang , Aditi Mishra , Bum Chul Kwon , Chris Bryan

The opaque reasoning of Graph Neural Networks induces a lack of human trust. Existing graph network explainers attempt to address this issue by providing post-hoc explanations, however, they fail to make the model itself more interpretable.…

A key to deciphering the inner workings of neural networks is understanding what a model has learned. Promising methods for discovering learned features are based on analyzing activation values, whereby current techniques focus on analyzing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Alex Bäuerle , Daniel Jönsson , Timo Ropinski

The fields of explainable AI and mechanistic interpretability aim to uncover the internal structure of neural networks, with circuit discovery as a central tool for understanding model computations. Existing approaches, however, rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Elena Golimblevskaia , Aakriti Jain , Bruno Puri , Ammar Ibrahim , Wojciech Samek , Sebastian Lapuschkin

Interpreting the inner workings of deep learning models is crucial for establishing trust and ensuring model safety. Concept-based explanations have emerged as a superior approach that is more interpretable than feature attribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Mara Graziani , Laura O' Mahony , An-Phi Nguyen , Henning Müller , Vincent Andrearczyk

This paper presents a model architecture for encoding the representations of part-whole hierarchies in images in form of a graph. The idea is to divide the image into patches of different levels and then treat all of these patches as nodes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Muhammad AbdurRafae

Exploring and understanding efficient image representations is a long-standing challenge in computer vision. While deep learning has achieved remarkable progress across image understanding tasks, its internal representations are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Chenyuan Qu , Hao Chen , Jianbo Jiao

We study the problem of graph structure identification, i.e., of recovering the graph of dependencies among time series. We model these time series data as components of the state of linear stochastic networked dynamical systems. We assume…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Sérgio Machado , Anirudh Sridhar , Paulo Gil , Jorge Henriques , José M. F. Moura , Augusto Santos

*Automated circuit discovery* is a central tool in mechanistic interpretability for identifying the internal components of neural networks responsible for specific behaviors. While prior methods have made significant progress, they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Itamar Hadad , Guy Katz , Shahaf Bassan

Graph Neural Networks operate through bottom-up message-passing, fundamentally differing from human visual perception, which intuitively captures global structures first. We investigate the underappreciated potential of vision models for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Xinjian Zhao , Wei Pang , Zhongkai Xue , Xiangru Jian , Lei Zhang , Yaoyao Xu , Xiaozhuang Song , Shu Wu , Tianshu Yu

Deep neural networks excel at finding hierarchical representations that solve complex tasks over large data sets. How can we humans understand these learned representations? In this work, we present network dissection, an analytic framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 David Bau , Jun-Yan Zhu , Hendrik Strobelt , Agata Lapedriza , Bolei Zhou , Antonio Torralba

We present a method for visualising the response of a deep neural network to a specific input. For image data for instance our method will highlight areas that provide evidence in favor of, and against choosing a certain class. The method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Luisa M. Zintgraf , Taco S. Cohen , Max Welling

Providing textual concept-based explanations for neurons in deep neural networks (DNNs) is of importance in understanding how a DNN model works. Prior works have associated concepts with neurons based on examples of concepts or a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Nhat Hoang-Xuan , Minh Vu , My T. Thai

Automatic data extraction from charts is challenging for two reasons: there exist many relations among objects in a chart, which is not a common consideration in general computer vision problems; and different types of charts may not be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Xiaoyi Liu , Diego Klabjan , Patrick NBless

The interpretation of deep neural networks (DNNs) has become a key topic as more and more people apply them to solve various problems and making critical decisions. Concept-based explanations have recently become a popular approach for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Zhenge Zhao , Panpan Xu , Carlos Scheidegger , Liu Ren

In the brain, the structure of a network of neurons defines how these neurons implement the computations that underlie the mind and the behavior of animals and humans. Provided that we can describe the network of neurons as a graph, we can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Gustavo Borges Moreno e Mello , Vibeke Devold Valderhaug , Sidney Pontes-Filho , Evi Zouganeli , Ioanna Sandvig , Stefano Nichele

This paper presents abstract art created by neural networks and broadly recognizable across various computer vision systems. The existence of abstract forms that trigger specific labels independent of neural architecture or training set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Tom White

*Concept-based explanations* offer a promising approach for explaining the predictions of deep neural networks in terms of high-level, human-understandable concepts. However, existing methods either do not establish a causal connection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Ronaldo Canizales , Divya Gopinath , Corina Păsăreanu , Ravi Mangal

Through considerable effort and intuition, several recent works have reverse-engineered nontrivial behaviors of transformer models. This paper systematizes the mechanistic interpretability process they followed. First, researchers choose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Arthur Conmy , Augustine N. Mavor-Parker , Aengus Lynch , Stefan Heimersheim , Adrià Garriga-Alonso

Neural network models are widely used in a variety of domains, often as black-box solutions, since they are not directly interpretable for humans. The field of explainable artificial intelligence aims at developing explanation methods to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Patrik Hammersborg , Inga Strümke