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Prototypical part networks offer interpretable alternatives to black-box deep learning models by learning visual prototypes for classification. This work provides a comprehensive analysis of prototype formulations, comparing point-based and…

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Sparsity-based representations have recently led to notable results in various visual recognition tasks. In a separate line of research, Riemannian manifolds have been shown useful for dealing with features and models that do not lie in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-05-21 Mehrtash Harandi , Richard Hartley , Chunhua Shen , Brian Lovell , Conrad Sanderson

Manifold models provide low-dimensional representations that are useful for processing and analyzing data in a transformation-invariant way. In this paper, we study the problem of learning smooth pattern transformation manifolds from image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-05-20 Elif Vural , Pascal Frossard

In this paper, we propose a design methodology for one-class classifiers using an ensemble-of-classifiers approach. The objective is to select the best structures created during the training phase using an ensemble of spanning trees. It…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Riccardo La Grassa , Ignazio Gallo , Alessandro Calefati , Dimitri Ognibene

Probing learned concepts in large language models (LLMs) is crucial for understanding how semantic knowledge is encoded internally. Training linear classifiers on probing tasks is a principle approach to denote the vector of a certain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Haiyan Zhao , Heng Zhao , Bo Shen , Ali Payani , Fan Yang , Mengnan Du

Pretrained language models are long known to be subpar in capturing sentence and document-level semantics. Though heavily investigated, transferring perturbation-based methods from unsupervised visual representation learning to NLP remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Chenghao Xiao , Zhuoxu Huang , Danlu Chen , G Thomas Hudson , Yizhi Li , Haoran Duan , Chenghua Lin , Jie Fu , Jungong Han , Noura Al Moubayed

In the field of natural language processing (NLP), continuous vector representations are crucial for capturing the semantic meanings of individual words. Yet, when it comes to the representations of sets of words, the conventional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Yoichi Ishibashi , Sho Yokoi , Katsuhito Sudoh , Satoshi Nakamura

Teaching requires distilling a rich category distribution into a small set of informative exemplars. Although prior work shows that humans consider both representativeness and diversity when teaching, the computational principles underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Fanxiao Wani Qiu , Oscar Leong , Alexander LaTourrette

We combine concept-based neural networks with generative, flow-based classifiers into a novel, intrinsically explainable, exactly invertible approach to supervised learning. Prototypical neural networks, a type of concept-based neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Zachariah Carmichael , Timothy Redgrave , Daniel Gonzalez Cedre , Walter J. Scheirer

Neural networks for image classification tasks assume that any given image during inference belongs to one of the training classes. This closed-set assumption is challenged in real-world applications where models may encounter inputs of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Jinsol Lee , Ghassan AlRegib

Neural networks currently dominate the machine learning community and they do so for good reasons. Their accuracy on complex tasks such as image classification is unrivaled at the moment and with recent improvements they are reasonably easy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Sascha Saralajew , Lars Holdijk , Maike Rees , Thomas Villmann

Transformer networks have revolutionized NLP representation learning since they were introduced. Though a great effort has been made to explain the representation in transformers, it is widely recognized that our understanding is not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Zeyu Yun , Yubei Chen , Bruno A Olshausen , Yann LeCun

Deep learning models have achieved great success on various vision challenges, but a well-trained model would face drastic performance degradation when applied to unseen data. Since the model is sensitive to domain shift, unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Ziyu Ye , Chen Ju , Chaofan Ma , Xiaoyun Zhang

Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable performance in various text-based tasks but often lack interpretability, making them less suitable for applications where transparency is critical. To address this, we propose ProtoLens, a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Bowen Wei , Ziwei Zhu

Classifying images with an interpretable decision-making process is a long-standing problem in computer vision. In recent years, Prototypical Part Networks has gained traction as an approach for self-explainable neural networks, due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Zhijie Zhu , Lei Fan , Maurice Pagnucco , Yang Song

In several applications, input samples are more naturally represented in terms of similarities between each other, rather than in terms of feature vectors. In these settings, machine-learning algorithms can become very computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Ambra Demontis , Marco Melis , Battista Biggio , Giorgio Fumera , Fabio Roli

Prototype methods seek a minimal subset of samples that can serve as a distillation or condensed view of a data set. As the size of modern data sets grows, being able to present a domain specialist with a short list of "representative"…

Applications · Statistics 2012-03-19 Jacob Bien , Robert Tibshirani

Real world learning scenarios involve a nonstationary distribution of classes with sequential dependencies among the samples, in contrast to the standard machine learning formulation of drawing samples independently from a fixed, typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Mengye Ren , Tyler R. Scott , Michael L. Iuzzolino , Michael C. Mozer , Richard Zemel

Recent work has explored methods for learning continuous vector space word representations reflecting the underlying semantics of words. Simple vector space arithmetic using cosine distances has been shown to capture certain types of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-07-29 Sridhar Mahadevan , Sarath Chandar

Ensembles of classifier models typically deliver superior performance and can outperform single classifier models given a dataset and classification task at hand. However, the gain in performance comes together with the lack in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-10-23 Bruno Schneider , Dominik Jäckle , Florian Stoffel , Alexandra Diehl , Johannes Fuchs , Daniel Keim