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With the growing demand for interpretable deep learning models, this paper introduces Integrative CAM, an advanced Class Activation Mapping (CAM) technique aimed at providing a holistic view of feature importance across Convolutional Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Aniket K. Singh , Debasis Chaudhuri , Manish P. Singh , Samiran Chattopadhyay

Learning-based methods especially with convolutional neural networks (CNN) are continuously showing superior performance in computer vision applications, ranging from image classification to restoration. For image classification, most…

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Recently, several studies have proven the global convergence and generalization abilities of the gradient descent method for two-layer ReLU networks. Most studies especially focused on the regression problems with the squared loss function,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-19 Atsushi Nitanda , Geoffrey Chinot , Taiji Suzuki

Neural networks are becoming increasingly better at tasks that involve classifying and recognizing images. At the same time techniques intended to explain the network output have been proposed. One such technique is the Gradient-based Class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Mirtha Lucas , Miguel Lerma , Jacob Furst , Daniela Raicu

Saliency maps that identify the most informative regions of an image for a classifier are valuable for model interpretability. A common approach to creating saliency maps involves generating input masks that mask out portions of an image to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Jason Phang , Jungkyu Park , Krzysztof J. Geras

Class activation maps are widely used for explaining deep neural networks. Due to its ability to highlight regions of interest, it has evolved in recent years as a key step in weakly supervised learning. A major limitation to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Hang-Cheng Dong , Yuhao Jiang , Yingyan Huang , Jingxiao Liao , Bingguo Liu , Dong Ye , Guodong Liu

Training deep neural networks on large datasets containing high-dimensional data requires a large amount of computation. A solution to this problem is data-parallel distributed training, where a model is replicated into several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Lusine Abrahamyan , Yiming Chen , Giannis Bekoulis , Nikos Deligiannis

Gradients of neural networks encode valuable information for optimization, editing, and analysis of models. Therefore, practitioners often treat gradients as inputs to task-specific algorithms, e.g. for pruning or optimization. Recent works…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yoav Gelberg , Yam Eitan , Aviv Navon , Aviv Shamsian , Theo , Putterman , Michael Bronstein , Haggai Maron

Several recent works demonstrate that transformers can implement algorithms like gradient descent. By a careful construction of weights, these works show that multiple layers of transformers are expressive enough to simulate iterations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Kwangjun Ahn , Xiang Cheng , Hadi Daneshmand , Suvrit Sra

Gradient-based attention modeling has been used widely as a way to visualize and understand convolutional neural networks. However, exploiting these visual explanations during the training of generative adversarial networks (GANs) is an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Runze Li , Tomaso Fontanini , Luca Donati , Andrea Prati , Bir Bhanu

Rule-based models, e.g., decision trees, are widely used in scenarios demanding high model interpretability for their transparent inner structures and good model expressivity. However, rule-based models are hard to optimize, especially on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Zhuo Wang , Wei Zhang , Ning Liu , Jianyong Wang

This paper addresses the visualisation of image classification models, learnt using deep Convolutional Networks (ConvNets). We consider two visualisation techniques, based on computing the gradient of the class score with respect to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-04-22 Karen Simonyan , Andrea Vedaldi , Andrew Zisserman

Natural gradient descent is a principled method for adapting the parameters of a statistical model on-line using an underlying Riemannian parameter space to redefine the direction of steepest descent. The algorithm is examined via methods…

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Explaining the generalization characteristics of deep learning is an emerging topic in advanced machine learning. There are several unanswered questions about how learning under stochastic optimization really works and why certain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Mahdi S. Hosseini , Mathieu Tuli , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

In this paper, we propose a fast deep learning method for object saliency detection using convolutional neural networks. In our approach, we use a gradient descent method to iteratively modify the input images based on the pixel-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-02 Hengyue Pan , Hui Jiang

This work investigates how semantics influence localisation performance and robustness in a learned self-supervised, contrastive semantic localisation framework. After training a localisation network on both original and perturbed maps, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Manshika Charvi Bissessur , Efimia Panagiotaki , Daniele De Martini

Video classification is productive in many practical applications, and the recent deep learning has greatly improved its accuracy. However, existing works often model video frames indiscriminately, but from the view of motion, video frames…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Yunzhen Zhao , Yuxin Peng

This work proposes an algorithm for taking advantage of backpropagation gradients to determine feature importance at different stages of training. Additionally, we propose a way to represent the learning process qualitatively. Experiments…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Roberto Reyes-Ochoa , Servando Lopez-Aguayo

We present Gradient Activation Maps (GAM) - a machinery for explaining predictions made by visual similarity and classification models. By gleaning localized gradient and activation information from multiple network layers, GAM offers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Oren Barkan , Omri Armstrong , Amir Hertz , Avi Caciularu , Ori Katz , Itzik Malkiel , Noam Koenigstein

Loss-gradients are used to interpret the decision making process of deep learning models. In this work, we evaluate loss-gradient based attribution methods by occluding parts of the input and comparing the performance of the occluded input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Vinod Subramanian , Siddharth Gururani , Emmanouil Benetos , Mark Sandler