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In recent years, neural networks have demonstrated their remarkable ability to discern intricate patterns and relationships from raw data. However, understanding the inner workings of these black box models remains challenging, yet crucial…

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Training vision transformer networks on small datasets poses challenges. In contrast, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can achieve state-of-the-art performance by leveraging their architectural inductive bias. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Jianqiao Zheng , Xueqian Li , Simon Lucey

The impressive performance of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) when solving different vision problems is shadowed by their black-box nature and our consequent lack of understanding of the representations they build and how these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Ivet Rafegas , Maria Vanrell , Luis A. Alexandre , Guillem Arias

Deep learning is gaining importance in many applications. However, Neural Networks face several security and privacy threats. This is particularly significant in the scenario where Cloud infrastructures deploy a service with Neural Network…

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We study inverse problems consisting on determining medium properties using the responses to probing waves from the machine learning point of view. Based on the understanding of propagation of waves and their nonlinear interactions, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-12 Gunther Uhlmann , Yiran Wang

Convolutional Neural Networks have revolutionized vision applications. There are image domains and representations, however, that cannot be handled by standard CNNs (e.g., spherical images, superpixels). Such data are usually processed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 David Hart , Michael Whitney , Bryan Morse

In this work, we address the task of natural image generation guided by a conditioning input. We introduce a new architecture called conditional invertible neural network (cINN). The cINN combines the purely generative INN model with an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Lynton Ardizzone , Carsten Lüth , Jakob Kruse , Carsten Rother , Ullrich Köthe

We propose introspective convolutional networks (ICN) that emphasize the importance of having convolutional neural networks empowered with generative capabilities. We employ a reclassification-by-synthesis algorithm to perform training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Long Jin , Justin Lazarow , Zhuowen Tu

Neural networks are often regarded as "black boxes" due to their complex functions and numerous parameters, which poses significant challenges for interpretability. This study addresses these challenges by introducing methods to enhance the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-26 Mohamad Yamen AL Mohamad , Hossein Bevrani , Ali Akbar Haydari

Convolutional neural networks revolutionized computer vision and natrual language processing. Their efficiency, as compared to fully connected neural networks, has its origin in the architecture, where convolutions reflect the translation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Patrick Krüger , Hanno Gottschalk

In recent years, deep neural networks have showcased their predictive power across a variety of tasks. Beyond natural language processing, the transformer architecture has proven efficient in addressing tabular data problems and challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Anton Thielmann , Arik Reuter , Benjamin Saefken

Deep neural networks, in particular convolutional neural networks, have become highly effective tools for compressing images and solving inverse problems including denoising, inpainting, and reconstruction from few and noisy measurements.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Reinhard Heckel , Paul Hand

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved remarkable performance in various fields, particularly in the domain of computer vision. However, why this architecture works well remains to be a mystery. In this work we move a small step…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Bing Yu , Junzhao Zhang , Zhanxing Zhu

Deep Neural Networks have often been called the black box because of the complex, deep architecture and non-transparency presented by the inner layers. There is a lack of trust to use Artificial Intelligence in critical and high-precision…

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This paper presents an unsupervised method to learn a neural network, namely an explainer, to interpret a pre-trained convolutional neural network (CNN), i.e., explaining knowledge representations hidden in middle conv-layers of the CNN.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Quanshi Zhang , Yu Yang , Yuchen Liu , Ying Nian Wu , Song-Chun Zhu

Color is a crucial visual cue readily exploited by Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for object recognition. However, CNNs struggle if there is data imbalance between color variations introduced by accidental recording conditions. Color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Attila Lengyel , Ombretta Strafforello , Robert-Jan Bruintjes , Alexander Gielisse , Jan van Gemert

Modern neural networks are often regarded as complex black-box functions whose behavior is difficult to understand owing to their nonlinear dependence on the data and the nonconvexity in their loss landscapes. In this work, we show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Wei Hu , Lechao Xiao , Ben Adlam , Jeffrey Pennington

A significant effort has been made to train neural networks that replicate algorithmic reasoning, but they often fail to learn the abstract concepts underlying these algorithms. This is evidenced by their inability to generalize to data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Yujun Yan , Kevin Swersky , Danai Koutra , Parthasarathy Ranganathan , Milad Hashemi

Neural networks are often described as black boxes, reflecting the significant challenge of understanding their internal workings and interactions. We propose a different perspective that challenges the prevailing view: rather than being…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Shuchen Wu , Stephan Alaniz , Shyamgopal Karthik , Peter Dayan , Eric Schulz , Zeynep Akata

A fundamental problem in object recognition is the development of image representations that are invariant to common transformations such as translation, rotation, and small deformations. There are multiple hypotheses regarding the source…

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