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Robotic agents need to understand how to interact with objects in their environment, both autonomously and during human-robot interactions. Affordance detection on 3D point clouds, which identifies object regions that allow specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Maximilian Xiling Li , Korbinian Rudolf , Nils Blank , Rudolf Lioutikov

Deep learning models have significantly advanced acoustic bird monitoring by being able to recognize numerous bird species based on their vocalizations. However, traditional deep learning models are black boxes that provide no insight into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-14 René Heinrich , Lukas Rauch , Bernhard Sick , Christoph Scholz

The ability to interpret machine learning model decisions is critical in such domains as healthcare, where trust in model predictions is as important as their accuracy. Inspired by the development of prototype parts-based deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Jacek Karolczak , Jerzy Stefanowski

In this work, we perform an in-depth analysis of the visualisation methods implemented in two popular self-explaining models for visual classification based on prototypes - ProtoPNet and ProtoTree. Using two fine-grained datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Romain Xu-Darme , Georges Quénot , Zakaria Chihani , Marie-Christine Rousset

Model Interpretation aims at the extraction of insights from the internals of a trained model. A common approach to address this task is the characterization of relevant features internally encoded in the model that are critical for its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Hamed Behzadi-Khormouji , José Oramas

Current machine learning models have shown high efficiency in solving a wide variety of real-world problems. However, their black box character poses a major challenge for the understanding and traceability of the underlying decision-making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Srishti Gautam , Marina M. -C. Höhne , Stine Hansen , Robert Jenssen , Michael Kampffmeyer

State-of-the-art (SOTA) deep learning mammogram classifiers, trained with weakly-labelled images, often rely on global models that produce predictions with limited interpretability, which is a key barrier to their successful translation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Chong Wang , Yuanhong Chen , Yuyuan Liu , Yu Tian , Fengbei Liu , Davis J. McCarthy , Michael Elliott , Helen Frazer , Gustavo Carneiro

Part-prototype networks have recently become methods of interest as an interpretable alternative to many of the current black-box image classifiers. However, the interpretability of these methods from the perspective of human users has not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Omid Davoodi , Shayan Mohammadizadehsamakosh , Majid Komeili

The lack of transparency of Deep Neural Networks continues to be a limitation that severely undermines their reliability and usage in high-stakes applications. Promising approaches to overcome such limitations are Prototype-Based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Jon Vadillo , Roberto Santana , Jose A. Lozano , Marta Kwiatkowska

Since early machine learning models, metrics such as accuracy and precision have been the de facto way to evaluate and compare trained models. However, a single metric number doesn't fully capture the similarities and differences between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Ahmad Mustapha , Wael Khreich , Wes Masri

Prototype-based methods are of the particular interest for domain specialists and practitioners as they summarize a dataset by a small set of representatives. Therefore, in a classification setting, interpretability of the prototypes is as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Babak Hosseini , Barbara Hammer

In this paper, we move towards combining large parametric models with non-parametric prototypical networks. We propose prototypical fine-tuning, a novel prototypical framework for fine-tuning pretrained language models (LM), which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Yiqiao Jin , Xiting Wang , Yaru Hao , Yizhou Sun , Xing Xie

Understanding the spatial architecture of the tumor microenvironment (TME) is critical to advance precision oncology. We present ProteinPNet, a novel framework based on prototypical part networks that discovers TME motifs from spatial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Louis McConnell , Jieran Sun , Theo Maffei , Raphael Gottardo , Marianna Rapsomaniki

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) aim to improve interpretability in Deep Learning by structuring predictions through human-understandable concepts, but they provide no way to verify whether learned concepts align with the human's intended…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Stefano Colamonaco , David Debot , Pietro Barbiero , Giuseppe Marra

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

Species detection is important for monitoring the health of ecosystems and identifying invasive species, serving a crucial role in guiding conservation efforts. Multimodal neural networks have seen increasing use for identifying species to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Muchang Bahng , Charlie Berens , Jon Donnelly , Eric Chen , Chaofan Chen , Cynthia Rudin

Recent advancements in post-hoc and inherently interpretable methods have markedly enhanced the explanations of black box classifier models. These methods operate either through post-analysis or by integrating concept learning during model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Bor-Shiun Wang , Chien-Yi Wang , Wei-Chen Chiu

Time series data is one of the most popular data modalities in critical domains such as industry and medicine. The demand for algorithms that not only exhibit high accuracy but also offer interpretability is crucial in such fields, as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Bartłomiej Małkus , Szymon Bobek , Grzegorz J. Nalepa

Human vision models are at the core of image processing. For instance, classical approaches to the problem of image quality are based on models that include knowledge about human vision. However, nowadays, deep learning approaches have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Jorge Vila-Tomás , Pablo Hernández-Cámara , Valero Laparra , Jesús Malo

Non-destructive testing of aerospace SiC/SiC composites via X-ray computed tomography (XCT) relies on expert visual assessment, with current workflows offering limited traceability for accept/reject decisions. Deep convolutional networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Antonio Peña Corredor , Julien Lesseur , Romain Nunez , Paul Rivalland , Thomas Philippe