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Unlike human-engineered systems such as aeroplanes, where each component's role and dependencies are well understood, the inner workings of AI models remain largely opaque, hindering verifiability and undermining trust. This paper…

Multiple benchmarks have been developed to assess the alignment between deep neural networks (DNNs) and human vision. In almost all cases these benchmarks are observational in the sense they are composed of behavioural and brain responses…

Semantic segmentation and instance level segmentation made substantial progress in recent years due to the emergence of deep neural networks (DNNs). A number of deep architectures with Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) were proposed that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Pulak Purkait , Christopher Zach , Ian Reid

A crucial aspect of understanding the complex nature of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is the ability to explain learned concepts within their latent representations. While methods exist to connect neurons to human-understandable textual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Laura Kopf , Philine Lou Bommer , Anna Hedström , Sebastian Lapuschkin , Marina M. -C. Höhne , Kirill Bykov

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable performance on a range of tasks. A key step to further empowering DNN-based approaches is improving their explainability. In this work we present CME: a concept-based model extraction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Dmitry Kazhdan , Botty Dimanov , Mateja Jamnik , Pietro Liò , Adrian Weller

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) provide explicit interpretations for deep neural networks through concepts and allow intervention with concepts to adjust final predictions. Existing CBMs assume concepts are conditionally independent given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Haotian Xu , Tsui-Wei Weng , Lam M. Nguyen , Tengfei Ma

Although deep neural networks have shown well-performance in various tasks, the poor interpretability of the models is always criticized. In the paper, we propose a new interpretable neural network method, by embedding neurons into the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Wei Han , Yangqiming Wang , Christian Böhm , Junming Shao

Concept discovery is one of the open problems in the interpretability literature that is important for bridging the gap between non-deep learning experts and model end-users. Among current formulations, concepts defines them by as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Adrianna Janik , Kris Sankaran

We propose a novel perspective to understand deep neural networks in an interpretable disentanglement form. For each semantic class, we extract a class-specific functional subnetwork from the original full model, with compressed structure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Yulong Wang , Xiaolin Hu , Hang Su

Deep Neural Network(DNN) techniques have been prevalent in software engineering. They are employed to faciliatate various software engineering tasks and embedded into many software applications. However, analyzing and understanding their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Xufan Zhang , Ziyue Yin , Yang Feng , Qingkai Shi , Jia Liu , Zhenyu Chen

The interpretability of neural networks (NNs) is a challenging but essential topic for transparency in the decision-making process using machine learning. One of the reasons for the lack of interpretability is random weight initialization,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Shohei Kubota , Hideaki Hayashi , Tomohiro Hayase , Seiichi Uchida

Insights into the learned latent representations are imperative for verifying deep neural networks (DNNs) in critical computer vision (CV) tasks. Therefore, state-of-the-art supervised Concept-based eXplainable Artificial Intelligence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Georgii Mikriukov , Gesina Schwalbe , Korinna Bade

Concept-based Models are neural networks that learn a concept extractor to map inputs to high-level concepts and an inference layer to translate these into predictions. Ensuring these modules produce interpretable concepts and behave…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Samuele Bortolotti , Emanuele Marconato , Paolo Morettin , Andrea Passerini , Stefano Teso

Deep learning methods are highly accurate, yet their opaque decision process prevents them from earning full human trust. Concept-based models aim to address this issue by learning tasks based on a set of human-understandable concepts.…

Concept-based interpretability methods are a popular form of explanation for deep learning models which provide explanations in the form of high-level human interpretable concepts. These methods typically find concept activation vectors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Angus Nicolson , Yarin Gal , J. Alison Noble

Human explanations of high-level decisions are often expressed in terms of key concepts the decisions are based on. In this paper, we study such concept-based explainability for Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). First, we define the notion of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Chih-Kuan Yeh , Been Kim , Sercan O. Arik , Chun-Liang Li , Tomas Pfister , Pradeep Ravikumar

Despite impressive capabilities and outstanding performance, deep neural networks (DNNs) have captured increasing public concern about their security problems, due to their frequently occurred erroneous behaviors. Therefore, it is necessary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Haibo Jin , Ruoxi Chen , Haibin Zheng , Jinyin Chen , Yao Cheng , Yue Yu , Xianglong Liu

Language models' (LMs) proficiency in handling deterministic symbolic reasoning and rule-based tasks remains limited due to their dependency implicit learning on textual data. To endow LMs with genuine rule comprehension abilities, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Yixuan Weng , Minjun Zhu , Fei Xia , Bin Li , Shizhu He , Kang Liu , Jun Zhao

Locating neurons that are responsible for final predictions is important for opening the black-box large language models and understanding the inside mechanisms. Previous studies have tried to find mechanisms that operate at the neuron…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Vivek Hruday Kavuri , Gargi Shroff , Rahul Mishra

The many variations of Implicit Neural Representations (INRs), where a neural network is trained as a continuous representation of a signal, have tremendous practical utility for downstream tasks including novel view synthesis, video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Namitha Padmanabhan , Matthew Gwilliam , Pulkit Kumar , Shishira R Maiya , Max Ehrlich , Abhinav Shrivastava