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Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) offer interpretable alternatives to black-box predictors by introducing human-relatable concepts before the final output. However, existing CBMs struggle to verify whether predicted concepts correspond to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yingying Fang , Haijie Xu , Shuang Wu , Mariathasan Anish , Guang Yang

This paper continues the research that considers a new cognitive model based strongly on the human brain. In particular, it considers the neural binding structure of an earlier paper. It also describes some new methods in the areas of image…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Kieran Greer

Concept-Based Models (CBMs) are a class of deep learning models that provide interpretability by explaining predictions through high-level concepts. These models first predict concepts and then use them to perform a downstream task.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 David Debot , Pietro Barbiero , Gabriele Dominici , Giuseppe Marra

This paper introduces a visual sentiment concept classification method based on deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The visual sentiment concepts are adjective noun pairs (ANPs) automatically discovered from the tags of web photos,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-03 Tao Chen , Damian Borth , Trevor Darrell , Shih-Fu Chang

Recent work has demonstrated that complex visual stimuli can be decoded from human brain activity using deep generative models, offering new ways to probe how the brain represents real-world scenes. However, many existing approaches first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Pinyuan Feng , Hossein Adeli , Wenxuan Guo , Fan Cheng , Ethan Hwang , Nikolaus Kriegeskorte

The concept bottleneck model (CBM) is an interpretable-by-design framework that makes decisions by first predicting a set of interpretable concepts, and then predicting the class label based on the given concepts. Existing CBMs are trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Andong Tan , Fengtao Zhou , Hao Chen

Concept-based (CB) models provide interpretability and support test-time human intervention, while standard neural networks (NN) offer strong task performance but little transparency. Prior work has explored hybrid formulations that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Tores Julie , Sun Rémy , Sassatelli Lucile , Ancarani Elisa , Wu Hui-Yin , Precioso Frédéric

The multimodal deep neural networks, represented by CLIP, have generated rich downstream applications owing to their excellent performance, thus making understanding the decision-making process of CLIP an essential research topic. Due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Chenming Shang , Hengyuan Zhang , Hao Wen , Yujiu Yang

When robots operate in human environments, it's critical that humans can quickly teach them new concepts: object-centric properties of the environment that they care about (e.g. objects near, upright, etc). However, teaching a new…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Andreea Bobu , Chris Paxton , Wei Yang , Balakumar Sundaralingam , Yu-Wei Chao , Maya Cakmak , Dieter Fox

It has long been considered a significant problem to improve the visual quality of lossy image and video compression. Recent advances in computing power together with the availability of large training data sets has increased interest in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Aaditya Prakash , Nick Moran , Solomon Garber , Antonella DiLillo , James Storer

The pervasive use of distributional semantic models or word embeddings in a variety of research fields is due to their remarkable ability to represent the meanings of words for both practical application and cognitive modeling. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Akira Utsumi

With the increasing demands for accountability, interpretability is becoming an essential capability for real-world AI applications. However, most methods utilize post-hoc approaches rather than training the interpretable model. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Yoshihide Sawada , Keigo Nakamura

Large-scale neural network models combining text and images have made incredible progress in recent years. However, it remains an open question to what extent such models encode compositional representations of the concepts over which they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Martha Lewis , Nihal V. Nayak , Peilin Yu , Qinan Yu , Jack Merullo , Stephen H. Bach , Ellie Pavlick

Explicit concept space models have proven efficacy for text representation in many natural language and text mining applications. The idea is to embed textual structures into a semantic space of concepts which captures the main ideas,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Walid Shalaby , Wlodek Zadrozny

Concept-based explanation methods, such as Concept Activation Vectors, are potent means to quantify how abstract or high-level characteristics of input data influence the predictions of complex deep neural networks. However, applying them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Thomas Decker , Michael Lebacher , Volker Tresp

We do not speak word by word from scratch; our brain quickly structures a pattern like \textsc{sth do sth at someplace} and then fill in the detailed descriptions. To render existing encoder-decoder image captioners such human-like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Xu Yang , Hanwang Zhang , Jianfei Cai

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) offer inherent interpretability by initially translating images into human-comprehensible concepts, followed by a linear combination of these concepts for classification. However, the annotation of concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Hangzhou He , Lei Zhu , Xinliang Zhang , Shuang Zeng , Qian Chen , Yanye Lu

Visual reasoning, particularly spatial reasoning, is a challenging cognitive task that requires understanding object relationships and their interactions within complex environments, especially in robotics domain. Existing vision_language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Simindokht Jahangard , Mehrzad Mohammadi , Abhinav Dhall , Hamid Rezatofighi

Deep learning algorithms have recently gained significant attention due to their impressive performance. However, their high complexity and un-interpretable mode of operation hinders their confident deployment in real-world safety-critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Konstantinos P. Panousis , Dino Ienco , Diego Marcos

Machine learning models that first learn a representation of a domain in terms of human-understandable concepts, then use it to make predictions, have been proposed to facilitate interpretation and interaction with models trained on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Isaac Lage , Finale Doshi-Velez